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The TSPRA State Offices will be closed beginning Monday, March 10 through Friday, March 14 for Spring Break. The offices will open for normal business hours Monday, March 17. Have a safe and relaxing Spring Break. 
Thank you for a fantastic 2014 Annual Conference!
If you're a TSPRA member, click here to login to the celebratetps.org website, where you can access Leave Your Mark logos, flyers, posters and resolutions as well as the list of March activities for your Celebrate Texas Public Schools campaign. 
♦ Click here to see the winner's bookFrancisco Vara-Orta of the San Antonio Express-News wins the TSPRA Media Award
♦ Click here to read the press release
♦ Photo of Francisco Vara-Orta
Judges have announced the statewide winners in the 2014 Celebrate Texas Public Schools Video Contest, sponsored by Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union. Click here to see the list of winners. Coppell superintendent named TSPRA's 2013 Key Communicator
On Sept. 27 at the TASA/TASB Convention in Dallas, TSPRA President Patti Pawlik-Perales and SchoolMessenger's Nate Brogan honored Coppell ISD superintendent Dr. Jeffrey Turner as the 2013 TSPRA Key Communicator. Learn more about Turner here.
Three ways video helps with PR
1. Video boosts engagement in social media, earning more clicks and more eyeballs than posts that merely consist of text.
2. Video is easily shared with news outlets, who are always on the lookout for content that readers might click and share around their networks.
3. Video can attract new fans for your organization by giving them an opportunity to see your culture, hear your leaders, or experience what you're like "behind the scenes."
-PRDaily.com
Issue 152, March 5, 2014
In this issue...
Feature Story
Keep the 2014 Conference spirit alive all year long.
Other Stories
♦ Conference photos available
♦ Take the 2014 Conference Survey
♦ CTPS Video Contest state judges
Congratulations,
Upcoming Events
and MORE!
Leave Your Mark by Celebrating TX public schools.View the Midway Castleman Creek Elem School award winning video! http://t.co/MDiMCfBi1j
If you attended the BELO/KUT tour at UT during the conference, please email us your name and the names of others you recall attending
It is Celebrate Texas Public Schools Week. See Coppell MS West award winning video! sponsored by RBFCU. http://t.co/djma7VNRWp
RT @teainfo: It's Texas Public Schools Week, and we appreciate all you do! To celebrate, Macarthur HS students produced a video: https://t.…
Link to the 2011 Accountability Ratings Talking Points 2011AccountabilityRatingsTP.pdf
The annual conference is an invaluable time to network, share ideas, gather ideas and obtain professional development. There is no other place to go for that."
March 5, 2014
