Texas Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents
The Leadership | The Advocate | The Voice for Latino Learners and Leaders
The Texas Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents is the premier organization in advocacy for the growth and advancement of Latino learners and leaders. With an unrelenting commitment to improving learning outcomes for Latino learners, TALAS provides leadership development, collective impact, advocacy, and a proactive voice for Latino and non-Latino leaders who have a passion for serving the fastest-growing student population in Texas.
Celebrating 15 Years of TALAS Leadership & Impact
For 15 years, TALAS has championed leadership, advocacy, and equity for Latino learners and leaders across Texas.
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Summer Leadership Summit is One Week Away!
Join Us for the TALAS & Central TALAS Summer Leadership Summit
TALAS and Central TALAS invite you to the annual Summer Leadership Summit, a powerful two-day gathering of superintendents, senior district leaders, and educational partners dedicated to advancing Latino leadership across Texas.
“Fuerza in Our Roots, Poder in Our People” celebrates the cultural heritage, collective strength, and shared commitment that unite Latino educational leaders. This summit honors the power of our history, values, and purpose in driving student success and shaping the future of education.
June 22–23, 2026 | Concordia University
June 22, 2026
Lunch and two breakout sessions
Evening Inaugural President’s Dinner (additional cost) recognizing outstanding chapter leadership and L3 Cohort 12 participants
June 23, 2026
Breakfast and lunch
Three breakout sessions
Featured breakout with Miguel Cardona, former U.S. Secretary of Education
Closing keynote and book signing with author Robert Alfaro, Baloney, Baloney, Baloney!
Together, we will explore how our roots ground us, our people uplift us, and our unity empowers the future of education.
Early Bird registration is available through March 30, 2026.Don’t miss this inspiring and impactful leadership experience!
Cancellation & Refund Policy
All registration and sponsorship fees are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, your registration or sponsorship fee will be considered a donation to TALAS. Upon request, a donation acknowledgment letter will be provided for your records.
3-2-1: On improving the world, feeling wealthy, and managing your three selves
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“You don’t need to solve every problem right now, only those that stand in your way.”
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“If you are bummed by the state of the world, go build something.”
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“Be forgiving with your past self. What’s done is done. No sense in beating yourself up about it.
Be strict with your present self. Win the moment in front of you right now.
Be flexible with your future self. There are many paths to success. You don’t need life to be a certain way to live well.”
Why Principals Are Key to Solving Schools’ Biggest Problems
Schools face numerous pressing challenges, from chronic absenteeism and falling grades to more structural problems like retaining teachers and workforce development. District and state-level leaders have approached these problems separately, but often they neglect the most strategic lever in the education system: principals.
Effective principals, in both high- and low-performing schools, play a critical role in retaining teachers, improving students’ academic outcomes, and maintaining a positive school culture, according to a new report by the Learning Policy Institute, a California-based research organization and think tank. Released in May, the report, titled “The Principal Effect: How Investing in School Leaders Is Key to Solving Education’s Challenges,” synthesizes several studies on principal effectiveness and school performance.
School board culture war conflicts are rare—and declining
Only about one in 10 U.S. school districts had any media-documented conflict over COVID masking, critical race theory, book bans or transgender student issues between 2018 and 2024, but those districts enrolled roughly three in 10 of the nation’s public school students.
The finding comes from a Brookings Institution analysis of web-scraped news articles covering a nationally representative sample of 2,337 school districts. Researchers manually reviewed each article to confirm whether a genuine conflict between a community and its school board had occurred, rather than simply noting policy activity.
The 3 Predicable Struggles That Thwart Education Leadership Teams
Educational leaders are under enormous pressure. They are expected to improve student outcomes, support teacher learning, navigate competing initiatives, manage budgets, respond to community concerns, and maintain a coherent vision for improvement. And they are asked to do this at the same time they are leading through increasingly complex conditions.
Given those demands, it is surprising that many districts do not offer more than one-day workshops or conferences for leaders to attend. Unfortunately, they do not often attend these workshops and conferences with other leaders, or many times, their leadership teams, which can negatively impact the team’s ability to create a common understanding about some of the biggest issues within their schools or districts.
Nation’s Report Card shows an uneven pandemic recovery
Nine-year-olds are recovering academic ground lost during the pandemic, with reading scores now statistically on par with pre-COVID levels and a growing share of students demonstrating foundational math and literacy skills.
The findings come from the 2025 National Assessment of Educational Progress Long-Term Trend Assessment, released by the National Center for Education Statistics. The assessment tracks reading and mathematics performance among 9- and 13-year-olds and provides a historical record dating back to the 1970s.
Events
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TALAS Summer Leadership Summit
Concordia University 11400 Concordia, Austin, TX, United StatesTALAS and Central TALAS invite you to the annual Summer Leadership Summit, a powerful two-day gathering of superintendents, senior district leaders, and educational partners dedicated to advancing Latino leadership across Texas. “Fuerza in […]
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Tarrant County Leadership Conference June 26, 2026
Birdville PLC 6351 Blvd 26, North Richland Hills, TX, United StatesTarrant County is hosting a mini leadership conference for educational leaders on June 13, 2026. They are looking for dynamic presenters that are willing to share best practices in leadership. […]
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Human Architects: Building Collective Efficacy: Webinar #2 June 29, 2026
WEBINAR 02 Building Collective Efficacy How Leadership Teams Execute and Achieve Goals Together A team that believes it can succeed, will. Learn what collective efficacy looks like in PK–12 teams, […]
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Preparing & Marketing Yourself for the Next Leadership Role Alamo Area TALAS June 29
Chris Madrids San Antonio, TexasReady to make your next career move? Join Alamo Area TALAS for an evening of networking, learning, and professional growth designed to help you take the next step in your […]
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Human Architects: Building Collective Efficacy: Webinar #3 July 13, 2026
WEBINAR 03 Mastery Through Learning Why Teams That Learn Together Outperform Everyone Else Mastery is not an individual achievement. It is a team discipline. Explore how formal and informal learning […]
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Human Architects: Building Collective Efficacy: Webinar #3 July 13, 2026
WEBINAR 03 Mastery Through Learning Why Teams That Learn Together Outperform Everyone Else Mastery is not an individual achievement. It is a team discipline. Explore how formal and informal learning […]
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From Strategy to Systemic Transformation Workshop #1 July 14
A 3-Hour Intensive for Results-Driven Texas Administrators Strategic plans fail when they are too broad to execute or too detached from economic reality. This summer, join NorthStar Education Advisors for a streamlined, […]
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Human Architects: Building Collective Efficacy: Webinar #4 July 27, 2026
WEBINAR 04 Automaticity Turning Effective Practices and Processes into Teaming Habits We rise or fall to the systems we have in place. This closing session helps leaders examine their team […]
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From Strategy to Systemic Transformation Workshop #2 July 28
A 3-Hour Intensive for Results-Driven Texas Administrators Strategic plans fail when they are too broad to execute or too detached from economic reality. This summer, join NorthStar Education Advisors for a streamlined, […]
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From Strategy to Systemic Transformation Workshop #3 August 11
A 3-Hour Intensive for Results-Driven Texas Administrators Strategic plans fail when they are too broad to execute or too detached from economic reality. This summer, join NorthStar Education Advisors for a streamlined, […]
TALAS Partnership Spotlight
Lexia Learning
We are thrilled to share the latest episode of the TALAS Partnership Spotlight series. Dr. Rick Fernandez is joined by guest Dr. José Viana, Senior Education Advisor at Lexia Learning. In this entertaining and very informative episode, Dr. José goes in-depth on the push for bilingualism in the U.S. and the way we need to improve if we want to achieve this goal, Dr. Rick asks all the right questions that teachers and parents are wondering, Dr. José does a fantastic job of laying out the vision Lexia Learning has and his excitement to share the new ways they will help improve the world of education.
Become a Sponsor
Sponsorship opportunities allow TALAS to work with innovative partners who are interested in supporting the TALAS mission. Sponsors who partner with TALAS enjoy direct access to TALAS leadership teams committed to improving the educational outcomes for all students and their communities.
