The mission of the Texas Association of School Administrators is to promote, provide, and develop leadership that champions educational excellence.

Vision
TASA provides support for school leaders through:

• Fostering programs and activities that focus on leadership development
• Impacting laws, policies, and practices that will improve education
• Supporting and promoting research-based decision making
• Developing, retaining, and supporting highly qualified educational leaders
• Cultivating positive school climates in which quality education can thrive
• Enhancing the influence of and respect for educational leaders
• Recognizing diversity and building on commonalities
• Serving as a catalyst for cooperative efforts

Goals and Objectives

• Quality Student Learning
  To promote and provide leadership for the advancement of education in order to attain programs that result in high levels of student achievement

• Positive School Climates
  To engage in activities that foster positive climates for learning and to advocate as a high priority of our society a public understanding of and support for quality education

• Systemic School Improvement
  To promote ongoing, proactive leadership that recognizes and utilizes a systemic approach to improvement and restructuring in education

• Ongoing Professional Development
  To offer high-quality, professional development opportunities for educational leaders in order to promote effective organizational management and leadership

• Proactive Governmental Relations
  To impact laws, regulations, and decisions to improve the quality and effectiveness of education, and to elevate the status of educational leaders in the governmental decision-making process

• Advanced Educational Technology
  To promote the development and effective utilization of advanced educational and administrative approaches and technologies

• Synergistic Organizational Relationships
  To recognize and respect diversity and to build upon commonalities between educational organizations in efforts to achieve mutual goals for the benefit of Texas schoolchildren

• Effective Member Assistance
  To provide educational leaders and their systems of education with well-managed, innovative services that assist in the orderly and effective discharge of professional responsibilities for quality education programs and student achievement