Executive Director’s Blog
Kevin Brown, Ed.D., joined the staff in 2018 as TASA’s fourth executive director. Formerly the superintendent of Alamo Heights ISD and a past TASA state president, he chaired the TASA 2025 Task Force, which developed the TASA Strategic Framework, a plan to ensure TASA’s continued success.
The Balance of Management and Leadership
The varied and complex roles of administrators can generally be placed under two categories: management and leadership. The best superintendents do both very well. Management matters. No one cares what your vision of leadership is if the roof is leaking, bus schedules...
Focus Locally, Keep the Momentum Going
Educators and public school supporters, including parents, business leaders, students and friends, showed up at the polls in November in record numbers. That is cause for celebration. For at least a decade now, it feels as though public education has been attacked,...
STEM Education Fosters Real-World Skills
Texas public schools place a priority on creating and sustaining quality STEM programs, so the opportunities available to students these days are astounding. Our students compete in robotics and cyber security, design and build rockets, clone cattle, make discoveries...
The Challenges of School Safety
When I entered teaching, I never thought I would need to become an expert in school safety. It wasn’t on my radar beyond routine fire and tornado drills. When I was a principal, well before Columbine, we left exterior doors unlocked most of the time and routinely had...
Accepting the Torch
One of the best Olympic traditions is the passing of the torch from one person to another, starting in Olympia, Greece, and continuing for hundreds of miles as the flame is carried to its ultimate destination — the lighting of the official Olympic cauldron in the...
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Thank you to TASA Corporate Partners ETS and LPA for their sponsorship of Executive Director Kevin Brown’s speaking engagements during the 2020-21 school year!
