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TASA Names 2025 Texas Teachers of the Year
TASA, which facilitates the Texas Teacher of the Year program, has named Texas’ top teachers for 2025. Kristi Leff, a fifth-grade science and English/language arts teacher at Humphrey's Highland Elementary in Amarillo ISD, was named the 2025 Texas Elementary Teacher...
Martha Salazar-Zamora One of Four Finalists for 2024 National Superintendent of the Year
Tomball ISD Superintendent and TASA President-Elect Martha Salazar-Zamora, Ed.D., has been selected as one of four finalists for 2024 National Superintendent of the Year®, an award given by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Salazar-Zamora and the other...
TASA Names Recipients of 2024 Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship
TASA has named the 2024 recipients of its Johnny L. Veselka Scholarship, which the organization has awarded annually since 2014 to outstanding doctoral students pursuing careers in educational leadership, with particular emphasis on the superintendency. The recipients...
Executive Director’s Blog
The Benefits of Local Engagement
Tip O’Neill, the legendary U.S. Speaker of the House in the 1980s, was famous for getting things done in a bipartisan fashion, most notably with President Ronald Reagan. He is also famous for saying “all politics is local.” That is, while national politics might be...
Coming Together Through Community Schools
When I was an elementary principal of a Title 1 school, my favorite thing to do was to stand out front every morning to greet students, staff and parents. Regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status, political persuasion, religion or ability, every child who...
Following Up on the First Year: A Q&A with Kevin Brown
In summer 2018 Kevin Brown left his 10-year post as Alamo Heights ISD superintendent to take the top position at TASA. How has the transition gone? What's his perspective on the association’s progress on the TASA Strategic Framework — a long-range plan that lays out...
Press Releases
J.A. Gonzalez Selected as Texas Nominee for 2021 National Superintendent of the Year
McAllen ISD Superintendent J.A. Gonzalez, Ed.D., has been selected by TASA as Texas’ nominee for 2021 National Superintendent of the Year, an award given by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Gonzalez has served as superintendent of McAllen ISD, a district...
TASA Names 2020 Outstanding School Board
TASA named the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Board of Trustees the 2020 Outstanding School Board on October 2, 2020, during the virtual TASA|TASB Convention. Since 1971, the TASA School Board Awards program has honored outstanding Texas school boards that have demonstrated...
TASA Names 2021 Texas Teachers of the Year
TASA, which facilitates the Texas Teacher of the Year program, has named Texas’ top teachers for 2021. Eric Hale, a kindergarten and first-grade teacher from Dallas ISD, is the 2021 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year, and Anthony Lopez-Waste, a history teacher from...
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