TACTE - Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Council of Deans of Education
The Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is an organization for deans of education in Texas and is sometimes referred to as the Council of Deans of Education.
Its purpose is to stimulate improvement in the education of professional school personnel in Texas with a primary goal to provide, through professional organization and cooperation, for a continuous search for the promotion of ideas and practices which are most effective in the education of teachers and to promote effective teaching and quality education through efforts to improve teacher education, the teaching profession and the schools. This is in harmony with the objectives of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the member teacher preparation institutions as they apply in and for the State of Texas.
2020-21 Officers
President:
DeAnna Jenkins
Dallas Baptist University
President-Elect:
Michael O'Malley
Texas State University
Past President:
Lisa Huffman
Texas Woman's University
and
Glenda Ballard
St. Edwards University
Secretary:
Kylah Clark-Goff
Howard Payne University
Treasurer:
Denise Staudt
University of the Incarnate Word
ACSR Representative:
Stacey Edmonson
Sam Houston State University
Executive Director:
Ginny Fender