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Walter Jackson to Represent Region 4 on TASA Executive Committee
La Porte ISD Superintendent Walter Jackson has been elected to represent Region 4 on the TASA Executive Committee for the term June 1, 2022, to May 31, 2024. He will replace Martha Salazar-Zamora, who was elected the 2022-23 TASA vice president. Jackson previously...
TASA’s Breakaway Leadership Program Supports School Leader Health and Wellness
This article originally appeared in the spring 2022 issue of TASA's INSIGHT. In January 2022, nearly 100 Texas school leaders kicked off a transformational journey, participating in the first cohort of TASA’s new Breakaway Leadership program, which was created to help...
2022-23 TASA President-Elect and Vice President Announced, Other Changes to Executive Committee
At its March 23, 2022, meeting, the TASA Executive Committee ratified the election of Aldine ISD Superintendent LaTonya Goffney as 2022-23 TASA president-elect. She currently serves as the 2021-22 TASA vice president. The committee also elected Tomball ISD...
Executive Director’s Blog
Prepare Like a Prize Fighter
Being an educator has never been easy. Educators are called to serve, so they instinctively put the needs of others ahead of their own. They spend countless hours designing lessons, grading work, coaching individual children, completing endless paperwork, dealing with...
Voting in the Primary is Primary to Our Democracy
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, far right, far left, or somewhere in between on the political spectrum, voting in the primary elections is the most important civic responsibility we have as Texans. In our state, the most important elections occur in the...
Showing Up for Your Community
For the past 18 months, I have had a bit of survivor’s guilt. After 28 years of serving in public schools, the last 10 as a superintendent, I left school district work to serve at TASA in 2018. In the best of times, being a superintendent is barely sustainable, though...
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2021-22 Caudill Winners Announced
Austin ISD, Humble ISD, and Katy ISD have been selected to receive the 2021-22 Caudill Award, the highest honor in the annual Exhibit of School Architecture competition facilitated by TASA and Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) for projects that exemplify...
Dr. Kim Alexander to Receive Prestigious Golden Deeds for Education Award
Dr. Kim Alexander, CEO of Collegiate Edu-Nation, will soon join a select group of distinguished Texans to receive the Golden Deeds Award, considered the most coveted award in the field of Texas education and the highest recognition for distinguished service to...
TASA Names Recipients of 2022 Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship
TASA has named the 2022 recipients of its Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship, which has been awarded annually since 2014 to outstanding doctoral students pursuing careers in educational leadership, with particular emphasis on the superintendency. The recipients were...
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