tendent of Southland and Roosevelt ISDs. He was named ESC Region 17’s Superintendent of the Year in 2003. Marshall ISD Tiffany Best, who had been serving as Marshall High School’s Mavettes director and testing director, is now that school’s assistant principal. She has been with Marshall ISD since 2004. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education from East Texas Baptist University and a master’s degree in educational leadership from Stephen F. Austin State University. Larry Davis, an assistant principal since 2007 with Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD, is the new principal of Marshall High School. He also has been a teacher and administrator at Saginaw High School, Dallas ISD’s Lincoln High School and Arlington ISD’s Martin High. Davis earned his associate degree in communication from The University of Texas at Arlington and his master’s degree in education from Texas Woman’s University. Melissa McIntosh returns to Marshall ISD after serving as assistant superintendent of Jefferson ISD since 2009. She is now Marshall High’s academic dean. Previously, she was an assistant principal and principal in that district. She also was a fourth grade teacher at South Marshall Elementary School and was the district’s curriculum and instructional specialist. She has a bachelor’s degree in education from East Texas Baptist University and a master’s degree in educational administration from Texas A&M University at Texarkana. McKinney ISD The new Boyd High School head basketball coach is Jason Burton, who comes to McKinney from Texas State University, where he spent the past two years as an assistant basketball coach. Prior to that, he served in the same capacity at Texas A&M University at Commerce. During that time, he also was an adjunct instructor in the College of Business and Technology. Gordon Butler has been selected to serve as the district’s director of program evaluation. He was most recently an assistant principal at McKinney High School. He came to McKinney in 2012 from Midlothian ISD, where he was assistant principal of Walnut Grove Middle School for three years. Prior to that, he taught world geography and U.S. history at the Excel Charter Academy in Boston, Mass., and ESL at Bowie and Cochran elementary schools in Dallas ISD. A graduate of The University of Texas at Arlington with a bachelor’s degree in communications, he has a master’s degree in educational administration from Texas A&M University at Commerce. Judith Coffman is now the district’s director of bilingual/ESL programs. A native of Cuba, she has been an educator for 20 years, beginning as a bilingual instructional assistant at the Laurel School in Whittier, Calif. She continued her career as a classroom teacher and out-
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reach consultant in that state before coming to Texas in 2002 as a bilingual kindergarten teacher in Plano ISD. She then moved to Allen ISD to work as an ESL and bilingual classroom teacher and bilingual instructional specialist. She took her first administrative position in 2007 in Lovejoy ISD as an assistant principal at Lovejoy Elementary and then returned to Allen ISD in 2008 as assistant principal at Vaughan Elementary. She spent the past four years as principal of Story Elementary School in that district. Coffman’s bachelor’s degree in history was earned from the University of California at Irvine and her master’s degree in educational leadership from Dallas Baptist University. The district’s new assessment coordinator is Traci Hall, who comes to the district from Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, where she served in the same capacity for the past four years. She began her career 20 years ago as a math teacher in Sharyland ISD and also taught in Kopperl and Cedar Hill ISDs. In Cedar Hill ISD, she was an assistant principal at the elementary, intermediate and high school levels and then was assistant principal and interim principal at Coleman Middle School. She went on to become the district’s coordinator of PEIMS for 12 years before taking on her most recent job. Hall earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration and mathematics and her master’s degree in educational administration from Tarleton State University. A new director of community affairs and educational grants is in place for the district. She is Stella Uribe, who came to McKinney ISD in 2007 to serve as principal of Faubion Middle School. Since that time, she also has been director of federal programs and has led the district’s ESL/bilingual program. Before joining McKinney ISD, she was a language arts teacher in Freer ISD, where she went on to serve as a school counselor, federal programs director, and elementary and middle school principal. She also was an assistant principal at Burnet Elementary School in Dallas ISD. Uribe holds a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and a master’s degree in counseling and guidance from Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University at Kingsville). Her doctorate in educational leadership was awarded from Texas A&M University at Kingsville. Meagan Wilson has been named girls’ varsity soccer head coach at Boyd High School. She comes to McKinney ISD from Wakeland High School in Frisco ISD, where she also coached girls’ soccer. She was an assistant coach in Wylie ISD and with the Dallas area D’Feeters Soccer Club and at Texas Woman’s University. Wilson played for four years with East Central University and had a spot on the Lone Star Conference All-Tournament Team in 2004. Midland ISD Several principal assignments have been made for the new academic year. They are:
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Tanya Bell, Henderson Elementary School; Leslie Goodrum, Rusk Elementary School; Jeanette McNeely, Lee High School; Patrick Poe, Long Elementary School; and Alex Salazar, Burnet Elementary School.
Nacogdoches ISD Michael Green has retired from the position of associate superintendent of business and operations. He came to the district in 2011 after five years as assistant superintendent of Athens ISD. Longtime educator G.W. Neal ended his 41-year career with the district when he retired as assistant superintendent of elementary instruction in June. After graduating from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1972, he took his first position as a substitute teacher at Nacogdoches ISD’s Fredonia Elementary School, where he later became principal. He also served as the district’s assistant superintendent for human resources. Northside ISD Former Nichols Elementary School Vice Principal Angela Fry is now principal of Lewis Elementary. She taught first through third grades in San Antonio ISD before joining Northside ISD in 2001 to teach at Knowlton and Fisher elementary schools. She took her first Angela Fry administrative position in 2008 when she was named vice principal of Glass Elementary. Fry, who holds a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University), earned her master’s degree in educational leadership from The University of Texas at San Antonio. The new academic year will begin with Shana Hansen as principal of Glenoaks Elementary School. Most recently principal of Ott Elementary, she began her career in Northside ISD in 1987 as a third grade teacher at Passmore Elementary. She then moved to Oak Hills Terrace Shana Hansen Elementary as a third and fifth grade teacher and then to teach fourth grade at Westwood Terrace Elementary. She became an administrator in 1997 when she was appointed vice principal of Myers Elementary. She then served in the same capacity at Michael Elementary. She opened Ott Elementary as principal in 2002. Hansen earned her bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas and her master’s degree from Trinity University. The new principal of Northside AlternaSee WHO’S NEWS on page 28
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