College and Career Readiness, Digital Learning, Latest News, Organizational Transformation
Lancaster ISD in Region 10, a Texas High Performance Schools Consortium district, has launched a partnership with city officials to implement a multi-faceted plan called Village 2020 to improve opportunities for future generations. The plan includes goals in 12...
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...
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, 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...