What a pleasure it was to see so many TMTA teachers, students, and families at our Convention in Dallas! We are so thankful to all of you for the ways in which you contributed to our activities as we celebrated a return to in-person events after a three-year wait. Our total attendance was over 4,200 this year!

As I start my two-year term as President, I want to do two things before anything else. First, I want to very sincerely thank our Past President, Roy Wylie, NCTM, for his fantastic leadership during the past two years. He certainly didn’t sign up to figure out how to navigate a pandemic, deal with canceling Conventions, or miss out on many wonderful in-person meetings and events. Through all this he handled things with such grace and calm. Thank you, Roy, from me personally and from all of our members!

Second, I want to acknowledge the other members of our TMTA officers with whom we all will be working. This organization is far too big for any one person to know everything, or to “take charge of” by themselves! I already mentioned Roy as our Past President – also, please welcome Scott Donald, NCTM, from Austin, as our new President-Elect, Jonathan Gary from Belton as our Vice President of Business Activities-Elect, and Carol Crisp, NCTM, from Dallas, as our new Vice President of Student Activities. Julie Arras is continuing her great work as our Vice President of Business Activities. Besides these folks, we have so many individuals who volunteer their time and resources to serve on our Executive Board and on various committees. I am grateful to each and every one of you.

I know that I’ll be asking many people lots of questions, and I am very excited to listen and learn from as many of you as I can over the next two years!

Using our Convention slogan one last time, let’s all “Engage” even more with TMTA!

In service to you all,

Richard Fountain