Community-Based Accountability, Latest News, Multiple Assessments
In her letter to the commissioner of education about the STAAR administration problems students and districts experienced during the last week of March 2016, TASA President Karen Rue, superintendent of Northwest ISD and co-chair of the Texas High Performance Schools...
Community-Based Accountability, Digital Learning, HPLS, Latest News, Multiple Assessments, Organizational Transformation
The 2016 TASA Spring Leadership Conference, MISSION: School Transformation – Vision-Driven Instruction and Leadership, was held March 23-24 in Round Rock. Designed for TASA School Transformation Network subscribers but open to all Texas school leaders — at both the...
College and Career Readiness, Community-Based Accountability, Digital Learning, HPLS, Latest News, Multiple Assessments, Organizational Transformation
In January 2016, the Vision in Practice blog was created — by Texas educators for Texas educators — to provide insight into classrooms, campuses, and districts that are transforming teaching and learning to meet the needs of students in the 21st century. Spearheading...
Community-Based Accountability, Latest News, Multiple Assessments
The Commission on Next-Generation Assessments and Accountability, created in 2015 by HB 2804 to “develop and make recommendations for new systems of student assessment and public school accountability,” met for the second time February 23, 2016. During one of three...
Community-Based Accountability, Digital Learning, Latest News, Multiple Assessments
2016 Texas Superintendent of the Year Mary Ann Whiteker of Hudson ISD was invited to address the State Board of Education at its meeting January 29, 2016. Whiteker spoke of the Creating a New Vision for Public Education in Texas document created by the Public...
Community-Based Accountability, HPLS, Latest News, Multiple Assessments
The following is the President’s Message from the winter 2015 issue of INSIGHT, the professional journal of the Texas Association of School Administrators: At times, it seems like public education is being set up to look bad … that others are questioning our...