Leadership TASB: Mission, Goals and Program Outcomes

Mission

Goals

• Challenge, develop, and support emerging leaders
• Serve as a catalyst for mentoring and networking among school board trustees
• Provide all school board trustees with a peer-level resource for information and assistance
• Increase personal involvement in state and local activities that contribute to the growth and enhancement of school board trusteeship 
• Heighten knowledge of and influence policy on state and national issues

Program Outcomes

• Expand one's awareness of the educational successes and concerns of the ever changing face of Texas schoolchildren
• Become constructive, informed, and articulate agents of change including, but not limited to, advocacy on all levels where public policy decisions are made
• Develop skills required of an effective team for task planning and task implementation and utilize a network of colleagues from around the state
• Model the ideal of ethical leadership by encouraging, empowering, and mentoring others to support the ongoing programs of LTASB
• Experience alternative learning methodologies because true leaders are also lifelong learners