The episode features Heather Wilson, our new Board President from College Station ISD, and TASBO's Tracy Ginsburg and Tom Greer. We discuss the challenges, opportunities, and resources available to education professionals in Texas. Highlights include: leadership transition, policy updates, community engagement, and upcoming events.

In this episode of the TASBOcast, host Tom Greer interviews Crystal Washington, a renowned technology strategist and futurist. Washington shares her insights on leveraging technology to boost productivity and profits, addresses the importance of understanding different personality types in organizational planning, and discusses the challenges and strategies for adapting to rapid changes in today's socio-political and technological landscapes. She emphasizes the necessity of creativity and flexibility in navigating these shifts while maintaining joy and pride in one's work.

In this edition, we start our new PEIMS series with new co-hosts Beth Naegeli and Karen Holyfield. These leaders discuss how they started in the profession and then review the upcoming PEIMS sessions at the 2025 TASBO Engage Conference. One topic they take a deep dive into is data integrity and fostering a culture of accurate data.

In her final President Podcast, Elaine Cogburn discusses her trips, her tips for conference, and her experience this year leading the TASBO Board of Directors. 

This episode of TASBOcast is the start of a new School Operations series featuring members Mike Brooks from Elgin ISD and Paul Batchelder of New Caney ISD. They take a look at school operations sessions at the TASBO Engage Conference.

Today’s episode focuses on ways to build successful school operations teams, by working on communications and training (and recognition). We discuss this with two organizations, long-time Strategic Partner – TASB Facility Services AND our newest Strategic Partner, E3. Both companies have years of experience working closely with operations staff. And, they are planning a session on the subject at the 2024 School Operations Conference. 

We sit down with our very own SME's Becky Estrada and Jamie Spiegel to cover the deadlines outlined in the 2024-25 Master Calendar and the basics of our Professional Certification program.

In honor of TEA’s Oz-themed sessions at the PEIMS Academy, our episode title references not being in Kansas anymore.

Today’s panelists include RISE Award winner Karen Holyfield, PEIMS Director from Gilmer ISD. We also introduce a new addition to the TASBO team, Sonya Niazy – who you may know as Sonya George from her CFO days. She now joins our policy and research team.

We go over updates to PEIMS in 2024-25 and provide an overview of the upcoming PEIMS Academy.

Correction: The episode lists Karen Holyfield as PEIMS Research Committee Chair. The current chair is Chris Tawater, Director of PEIMS and Data Quality at Bastrop ISD.

This episode, featuring Board President Elaine Cogburn and Executive Director Tracy Ginsburg, focuses on getting ready for the new school year and creating awareness for new recognition programs. We also briefly cover new additions on the TASBO team and an important software update that will impact members.

This episode is a panel discussion on public education communication, which was recorded at the 2024 TASBO Summer Solutions Conference on June 18. The panel is moderated by TASBO's Tom Greer and includes: Bob Popinski, Raise Your Hand Texas; Lisa Losasso Jackson, We Go Public; and Patti Pawlik-Perales, TSPRA.