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The Transformative Alliance for Student Success (TASS) continues a year of significant momentum, marked by new initiatives and impactful collaborations. This new TASS newsletter will keep members up to date on progress, notables and successes.
Quote/Movie of the Month
Invictus. "We must inspire one another to exceed our own expectations."
- Nelson Mandela
TASS Notable Outcomes
- The inaugural Teacher of Promise Awards will be announced at SUPCE November 9. This award recognizes outstanding beginning educators who have demonstrated exceptional work ethic and commitment to the teaching profession.
- TASS Collaborative Grant Proposals Submitted
- COASTAL: Community-Oriented Academic STEM Training & Advanced Learning (Lead: Dr. David Squires)
- Office of Research Mentoring junior faculty: College of Engineering & Computer Science (Lead: Dr. Janet Donaldson)
- TASS Collaborative Research Study Collaborations
- Integrated Movement (Lead: Dr. Collin Webster)
- CC Police Department (Lead: Asst. Chief David Blackmon)
- Portal for Research Established
- CCRC (Collaborative Community Research Center), a regionally recognized data hub and home to innovative community participatory research that helps develop and sustain human and social capital in the Coastal Bend and South Texas
- Project Islander Educator Preparation for Teacher Candidates of Future Emergent Bilingual Students (I-PROFES) grant submitted to the U.S. Department of Education Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence (Hawkins) Program. Total Budget Request: $3.25 million over 5 years (2024-2029). Investigators: Jimenez, D.D. (PI), Tejeda-Delgado, C. (Co-PI), Robertson, P. (Co-PI), Lynch-Davis, K. (Co-PI), Watson, J. (Co-PI), & Squires, D. (Co-PI). Role and Responsibilities: Proposal development team and recruited participating school districts.
- Project Empowering and Preparing Teachers of Future Emergent Bilingual Students (EPROFES) grant submitted to the U.S. Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA). Total Budget Request: $3.5 million over 5 years (2024-2029). Investigators: Jimenez, D. D. (PI), Tejeda-Delgado, C. (Co-PI), & Robertson, P.
Role and Responsibilities: Proposal development team and recruited participating school districts.
TASS Fall 2024
Reflecting back, Looking forward
November 1:
Dr. Melissa Garza, senior research associate with the Charles Butt Foundation, presented data from the Texas Teacher Poll & Texas Educator Poll. Visit the Foundation's Public Opinion Research page for their latest and past survey results, Dr. Garza's presentation, and presentation feedback for details.
October 4:
Dr. Cissy Reynolds-Perez provided an extensive legislative update on school accountability ratings. Kingsville ISD leads a lawsuit by Texas school district superintendents challenging concerns with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) rating system implementation. Concerns included: late publication of TEA Accountability Manual May 2024 after assessment occurred statewide, lagging indicators make a rating of A for school districts mathematically impossible. Additionally, the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) test has never been validated by a third-party vendor. Finally, artificial intelligence scored student writing resulting in an unprecedented number of failures with the prohibitive cost of $50 per test per student fee to rescore.
September 6:
Mr. Conrado Garcia provided an update on Del Mar College and its partnership with TAMU-CC. Dr. Janet Donaldson, TAMU-CC Associate Vice President for Research, shared insights about repository resources.
TASS Guiding Purpose
All students are worthy and able to succeed. It takes a highly-committed, informed, dedicated, and informed village working together for transformation of less "undo" (reactive) and more "outdo" (upstream) to occur.
Contact
Dr. Carmen Tejeda Delgado, Director of Transformative Alliances for Student Success (TASS)
361-825-2860
Carmen.Tejeda-Delgado@tamucc.edu
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