During the TASA Midwinter Conference in January 2025, TASA Executive Director Kevin Brown announced that TASA has fulfilled all the aspirations of the TASA Strategic Framework developed by the TASA 2025 Task Force, a committee of TASA members from across the state that Brown chaired in 2017 while serving as TASA president. The framework — the result of more than a year of work by the task force — was launched in 2018 and laid out TASA’s aspirations and outlined the long-term strategies the association would use to reach them by TASA’s 100th anniversary, which the association is celebrating in 2025.
“So here we are, seven years later,” Brown said. “We have fulfilled this document in a great way, and I’m really proud of our team and all who played a part.” Brown then introduced this video, which features TASA leaders sharing how TASA has used the long-term strategies outlined in the framework to achieve the aspirations laid out by the task force — and how TASA members have benefited from that work.
About the Strategic Framework
The framework identifies three strategic areas (professional learning experiences, community and policy advocacy, and member engagement and support), and declares aspirations that are aligned with those strategic areas:
By 2025, TASA aspires to cultivate a …
- Cohesive, nationally recognized professional learning system that builds leadership capacity and a culture of transferable learning.
- Deeply engaged membership that self-organizes around creating the highest level of leadership performance.
- Diverse and extensive collaborative of champions equipped to advocate for an educated citizenry.
The framework also includes the long-term strategies that TASA has used to achieve these aspirations by 2025 – the results of which have benefited TASA members, the association as a whole, and Texas public education and should continue to do so in the years to come:
- Cultivate purposeful networks of leaders engaged in meaningful work that advances the principles in the New Vision for Public Education.
- Recruit local advocates to connect with legislators and accelerate grassroots public school advocacy efforts.
- Engage, mobilize, and collaborate with partners to advance effective education policy.
- Encourage and support regional, participant-led experiences that increase access to learning and networking opportunities.
- Develop a robust onboarding and mentorship experience that deepens personal connection to the association.
- Implement an adaptive process to assess and design learning opportunities that align with the various career pathways of members.
- Curate a “living library” of innovative transformational leadership practices from which leaders can learn from each other.
What’s Next for TASA?
During his presentation at the Midwinter Conference, Brown explained that in 2025, TASA will convene a group of TASA leaders to work on a “refresh” of the visioning document, Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas. That document, published in 2008 by TASA’s Public Education Visioning Institute, was the inspiration for the TASA Strategic Framework launched in 2018.
“We’ll refresh the visioning document,” Brown said, “then we will pull people together again and develop another strategic framework. We’re going to want you [TASA members] to be involved in this work.”
Stay tuned!
