Texas Association of School Boards hosts 2013 Summer Leadership Institute

Friday, June 7, 2013

Texas Association of School Boards hosts 2013 Summer Leadership Institute

TASB Summer Leadership Institute

TASB Vice-President Bret Begert and Immediate Past President Gary W. Inmon with Robyn Benincasa.

Hundreds of Texas ISD trustees, superintendents and school administrators attended a Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) facilitated by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) this week-end. One purpose of the Institute is to provide board members with current practice and information about key concerns facing Texas school districts. SLI gives public school trustees an opportunity to interact with education leaders from across the state. TASB staff are available to provide resources and answer questions.

In addition to a variety of informative educational sessions, the Institute offered two General Sessions. Featured speakers included Craig Kielburger -- social entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author and co-founder of Free The Children, a youth-driven charity. Also, Robyn Benincasa, who has made an art form of extreme performance by competing and winning at the highest levels of levels of sports competition and is a New York Times best-selling author and World Champion Adventure Racer.

Craig Kielburger says, "The change starts within each one of us and ends only when all children are free to be children." Robyn Benincasa encourages everyone to explore the human spirit and use human synergy to build teams, overcome obstacles and do amazing things. Both speakers inspire students, young and old, to serve and achieve success.

Thanks to the staff of the Texas Association of School Boards for a well-planned Summer Leadership Institute.

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

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Friday, June 7, 2013

Texas Association of School Boards hosts 2013 Summer Leadership Institute

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