The Mission Takes Root
A Vision Forms
Consortium Conceptualized
Law Establishes THPSC and TASA Creates School Transformation Network
THPSC Takes Shape, Future-Ready Superintendents Collaborate, and Transformation Takes Off Via Anti-Testing Resolution
TASA designed the Future-Ready Superintendents Leadership Institute to create and sustain a cadre of courageous, visionary superintendents willing to expand their leadership beyond the local level and propel Mission: School Transformation forward. It built capacity within a group of exceptional leaders — 39 superintendents and senior-level district administrators in the early stages of their careers — to understand, design, and initiate innovative systemic changes locally and statewide within the frameworks of both the Public Education Visioning Institute and the THPSC.
Challenges Arise, THPSC Publishes Concept Paper, and the Movement Grows
Tools Move Vision to Action and Consortium Associates Come to the Table
In March 2014, the Future-Ready Superintendents Leadership Institute worked in teams to produce tools for use across Texas to advance Mission: School Transformation. In addition to an info graphic, video, and slide presentation, they created The Moral Imperative: From Vision to Action, a report that captures the Institute participants’ desire to help launch the vision from the Public Education Visioning Institute into action.
Consortium Gets OK to Grow and Future-Ready Superintendents Leadership Network Forms
Also in 2015, the Future-Ready Superintendents Leadership Network (FRSLN) was designed to provide the members of the original Future-Ready Superintendents Leadership Institute and other school leaders committed to school transformation with opportunities to build on their understanding of and initiate innovative systemic changes locally and statewide.
THPSC Makes Recommendations to TCNGAA and Legislature
TPAC Forms
In 2017, building on the work of THPSC and recognizing the continuing need to develop alternatives to the A-F state-driven accountability system, TASA launched the Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC). TPAC is a group of Texas school districts working to build on the success of community-based accountability systems already in use in districts across the state by developing next-generation measures and assessments that would enable wider use of such systems.