ROYSE CITY, TX – Royse City Independent School District recently hosted the Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC) Fall Facilitation, bringing together school leaders from across the state for collaboration with a focus on engaging communities, showcasing real impact, and reporting student outcomes.
The Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC), a district-led network facilitated by the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), is dedicated to building on the success of locally-developed accountability systems already in use by school districts. The goal is to create and share next-generation measures and assessments that provide a comprehensive and accurate view of school quality.
The two day meeting, hosted at the RCISD Event Center, was a hands-on work session focused on sharing best practices and developing new methodologies for data that can be integrated into each district’s unique community-based accountability system. Demonstrating the value of local context, RCISD Executive Director of Federal Programs Tyisha Nelson, in partnership with CTE Program Director Cathleen Petroff, organized an afternoon session that showcased the Royse City High School Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs. School leaders from across the state were able to see RCHS students highlight the invaluable life skills gained from CTE programming.
Petroff encouraged districts to “find the programs that best serve your community” when deciding which pathways to offer students. RCISD is proud to provide students with over 26 areas of focus. Highlights from the showcase included a look inside the Drone Unmanned Vehicle Program, complete with flight simulator and drone prize deliveries, as well as a glimpse into the creativity of design students, the dedication to training from our law enforcement and medically focused students, innovative technology from robotics, cybersecurity, and engineering, and of course appreciation for our learners with a heart to enter the teaching profession, just to name a few.
“Our students did an amazing job not only showcasing their knowledge in their fields, but also in addressing our TPAC guests. These programs do more than provide the content and practice to be successful. They provide opportunities for students to learn and develop the necessary soft skills to stand out as star employees,” Superintendent, Dr. Amy Anderson shared.
TPAC's core mission is to demonstrate that a well-crafted community-based accountability system can better communicate a school's efforts and successes than the state’s standardized, test-centric A-F accountability system alone. “It was an honor to host this esteemed group of educators from across the state of Texas that believes our highest accountability is to our students, and our community,” Anderson reflected.
About the Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC)
The Texas Public Accountability Consortium (TPAC) is a network of forward-thinking school districts working to develop and implement next-generation measures of school quality. The Consortium is facilitated by the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and is committed to fostering accountability systems that are meaningful, actionable, and reflective of the whole student.
