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2023 Comprehensive Update
By Glen Teal, Ed.D | Superintendent
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We are having a great Spring 2023 semester at each of our campuses! In addition to the outstanding education you can always expect to be taking place in our classrooms, we have lots of other things in motion this semester! Here is the inside scoop!
Intermediate School Update
The construction of our new campus is making great progress. It is currently dried in & we are getting paint on the interior walls. As our community can tell, the exterior wall coverings are going up & our parking lots & sidewalks are beginning to take shape. Our new Intermediate Principal, Mrs. Che’ Corbin, is busy staffing the building with an outstanding line up of professional & auxiliary staff members. We continue to be on pace for construction to finish in June 2023 as expected & our new 4th, 5th, & 6th graders will join us in August of the 2023-24 school year.
Athletic Director
If you haven’t heard yet, our Jim Ned CISD School Board created a new Athletic Director position in their January 2023 Board Meeting. As our district continues to grow & our athletic programs grow as well, we have decided to separate out the Athletic Director (AD) role from the Head Football Coach position. Coach Matt Fanning has served us well in the AD/Head Football Coach position over the past 5 years & he has decided that he would prefer to continue in his coaching role rather than consider the pure AD position. Coach Fanning will also be providing expertise as a Strength & Conditioning coach & teaching classes in Physical Education at various grade levels. With that said, the district has posted the new AD position with plans on receiving applications from both internal & external candidates. If all goes as planned, the board will consider my recommendation for our new AD at a Called Board Meeting in early March. As our community is well aware, we have experienced lots of success in our Jim Ned Athletics Programs & no doubt this will continue with the leadership of our new AD well into the future. Pray that God provides a just right fit for us in our new AD! And, as you see Coach Fanning in the coming days, be sure to thank him for his service as our AD over the past 5-years & let him know how excited we all are that he will continue as our Head Football Coach! Great days ahead in Jim Ned Athletics for all programs!
