TCSR District Participants
In the fall of 2009, Edvance Research convened a meeting of several school districts from across Texas to discuss potential interest in establishing an education research consortium dedicated to helping solve problems of practice—in particular College and Career Readiness. Eighteen districts participated in this inaugural meeting and response to the Texas Consortium on School Research was overwhelmingly positive.
More than thirty districts, and charter schools participate in the Texas Consortium on School Research, which serves more than 1.7 million students or approximately 37% of students in Texas and it continues to grow.
TCSR District Participants
| Aldine ISD | Dallas ISD | Irving ISD | Plano ISD |
| Austin ISD | El Paso ISD | Katy ISD | Presbyterian School |
| Beaumont ISD | Fort Bend ISD | Kingsville ISD | Southwest ISD (San Antonio) |
| Carrolton-Farmers Branch ISD | Fort Worth ISD | Klein ISD | Spring ISD |
| Clear Creek | Galena Park ISD | Lewisville ISD | Spring Branch ISD |
| Conroe ISD | Grapevine-Colleyville ISD | Lubbock ISD | San Antonio ISD |
| Corpus Christi ISD | Harlingen CISD | North East ISD (San Antonio) | YES Prep Public Schools (Houston) |
| Cypress-Fairbanks ISD | Houston ISD | Northside ISD (San Antonio) |
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| Humble ISD | Pasadena ISD | ||
| Original District Participants Designated in Blue | |||
TCSR Steering Committee
District |
Representative Name(s) |
Representative Title(s) |
| Austin ISD | Karen Looby, PhD | Evaluation Supervisor |
| Cypress-Fairbanks ISD | Linda Macias Rayyan Amine, PhD |
Assistant Superintendent, Elementary Curriculum & Instruction Senior Director for Campus Improvement and Research (also a member of the Joint Advisory Board for the ERC) |
| Dallas ISD | Cecilia Oakeley, PhD Dorothea Weir, PhD |
Executive Director, Evaluation and Accountability Office of Applied Research, Evaluation and Accountability |
| El Paso ISD | James Steinhauser, PhD Carlos Perales Yinuo Du, PhD |
Assistant Superintendent, Research and Evaluation Researcher Senior Evaluator |
| Fort Worth ISD | Sara Arispe | Executive Director, Accountability and Data Quality |
| Galena Park ISD | Sandy Mathews | Coordinator of Instructional Measurement, Accountability |
| Grapevine-Colleyville ISD | Karen Vance, PhD | Director of Assessment, Research and Evaluation |
| Houston ISD | Carla Stevens | Assistant Superintendent Research and Accountability (also a member of the Joint Advisory Board for the ERC) |
| Klein ISD | Angeline Anderson, PhD Stan Hall, PhD |
Executive Director, Curriculum & Instruction Research, Evaluation, & Demographics Officer |
| Northside ISD | Sara McAndrew, PhD | Executive Director Secondary Instruction |
| Plano ISD | Dash Weerasinghe, PhD Paul Dabbs, PhD |
Director of Assessment and Accountability Assistant Director Assessment and Accountability |
| Southwest ISD | Celani Dominguez, PhD | Executive Director of Assessment & Accountability |
| Spring Branch ISD | Amanda Salinas Jennifer Cobb Keith Haffey |
Research and Evaluation Director, Program Research and Evaluation Executive Director, Accountability & Research |
Here is what districts are saying about TCSR:
“Fort Worth ISD is thrilled to participate in the Texas Consortium on School Research. This is an exciting opportunity to increase collaboration between practitioners in districts and researchers to leverage and share education research efforts, analyses, findings, and best practices relevant to Texas as we all move more strategically toward common goals like increasing career and college readiness”.
Sara Arispe
Executive Director of Accountability and Data Quality
Fort Worth Independent School District
“The Texas Consortium on School Research is an excellent partner for school districts. The information learned from TCSR benefits El Paso Independent School District by creating strategies that increase the number of students that will graduate from college. The information presented by educators and researchers in TCSR meetings is a catalyst for our strategic planning on college readiness. Our current focus is collaboration with TCSR on studying persistence in college as it relates to several variables including course grades in high school, norm & criteria -referenced test data, reading levels, and the academic rigor of the receiving colleges. El Paso Independent School District has benefitted from a partnership with TCSR and will continue to attend TCSR meetings. EPISD intends to contribute thought leadership in collaborating on research topics with TCSR and school districts across the state and region.”
James Steinhauser, Ph.D.
Assistant Superintendent
Research and Evaluation
El Paso Independent School District
Assistant Superintendent
Research and Evaluation
El Paso Independent School District
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