Texas is aligning and strengthening Education Service Center leadership evaluation systems to promote consistency, transparency, and systemwide impact.
The Opportunity
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has identified the need for coherence, consistency, and shared understanding of expectations across all Education Service Center (ESC) executive directors. Strong alignment will ensure, for example, that leadership evaluations are fair, evidence-based, and connected to broader system priorities.
The Support
The Southwest Comprehensive Center is calibrating with the TEA commissioner and deputy commissioners to provide robust support during ESC executive director evaluation cycles. This will include developing comprehensive guidance and preparing all 20 ESC executive directors for performance review checkpoints. In parallel, the Southwest Comprehensive Center is establishing a strong research foundation and learning architecture and delivering sustained design, coordination, and toolkit support across multiple governance forums.
Desired Outcomes
The Southwest Comprehensive Center intends for this work to result in a consistent, transparent, and well-calibrated evaluation system that builds leadership capacity over time. Ultimately, the project aims to institutionalize aligned expectations, strengthen executive director practice through the Learning Series, and drive improved system-level impact across ESCs.