Dear TCPEA Member:

It's time to renew your membership dues for 2009-10. We're looking forward to an exciting year, and want you to be an active part of it!

The Texas Council of Professors of Educational Administration is dedicated to promoting the improvement and advancement of educational leadership by:

• Helping members become more effective in their role as professors of educational administration.
• Encouraging research, investigation, and dissemination of the research results.
• Fostering positive relationships with state and national educational organizations.

We are also continuing our partnership with the Texas Association of School Administrators.  The TCPEA/TASA partnership is designed to enhance communication among members, as well as facilitate council business.

We encourage you to renew your commitment to the TCPEA community.  Your 2009-10 dues payment of just $50 entitles you to:

• Attendance at TCPEA Meetings.  TCPEA meets twice annually, in conjunction with the TASA/TASB Convention in early fall (this year's convention is October 2–4, 2009, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston) and the TASA Midwinter Conference at the end of January.  These meetings provide the important networking opportunities so vital to the success of our profession.

• Subscription to School Leadership Review.  This nationally refereed journal sponsored and published by TCPEA is designed to offer a publishing opportunity to professors of educational leadership across the country.  Our new co-editors are Dr. Peggy Barnes Gill and Dr. Wes Hickey from The University of Texas–Tyler, who we know will take the journal to a new level for us.  In the near future, the journal will be available both in print and online for further exposure of the authors’ work.

• Access to tcpea.org.  Our web site offers a great opportunity for members to connect and collaborate.  The site includes member contact information; submission information and articles from past issues of The School Leadership Review; TCPEA's history and Constitution & Bylaws; Executive Board members’ contact information and copies of agendas and minutes of past board meetings; information on and past recipients of the Living Legend Award; papers from TCPEA's Graduate Research Exchange; links to related education organizations; and more!

Renew Now!  Through our agreement with the Texas Association of School Administrators, the TCPEA membership renewal process is entirely online this year. As a 2008-09 TCPEA member, you already have a profile on TASAnet. Simply log onto tasanet.org and click the Membership and Subscriptions link under “Your TASAnet Account.” If you are also a TASA member, but have not renewed for 2009-10, you will have the opportunity to renew your TASA dues at the same time.

The deadline for renewing is September 10, 2009, in order to receive the next issue of our journal. If you have any questions about the renewal process, please contact Brettany Zirkle, manager, membership and data services, 512.477.6361 or 800.725.TASA (8272). Question about TCPEA may be directed to me Casey Brown or 580.920.5721).

Best wishes for a wonderful 2009-10 school year! See you at our first meeting in October at the TASA/TASB Convention in Houston.

Sincerely,

Casey Graham Brown
TCPEA Treasurer