Who’s News Girard ISD’s K-12 schools, after which he moved to Round Rock ISD to lead McNeil High School. In addition to his public school duties, Coulter has been a clinical assistant principal in the Department of Educational Administration at The University of Texas, and he continues to serve as an adjunct professor there. He has a bachelor’s degree in physical education with a minor in mathematics from Angelo State University and a master’s degree in educational administration from Sul Ross State University. His doctorate in educational leadership is from Texas Tech University. Houston ISD The new principal of Worthing High School, Tamara Sterling, is the school’s eighth principal and the first woman to hold that position in the school’s 50-year history. She came to Houston ISD in 1996 as a substitute teacher and has taught at Edison, Holland and Sharpstown middle schools and Wheatley High School. In Chicago, Sterling was an administrator at Manley High School and at the Reavis Math and Science Specialty School; she also served as principal of Simeon Career Academy. Sterling received her teaching certification in special education through the Region IV alternative certification program. Her master’s degree is from Prairie View A&M University. Irving ISD Jeremy L. Earnhart is the district’s new director of fine arts. He began his music education career in 1997 at Fort Worth ISD’s Brewer High School. He moved to Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD in 1998 as assistant director of bands at L.D. Jeremy L. Earnhart Bell High School; he was promoted to director in 2002. During his tenure at Bell, the school’s bands have grown by 50 percent. The band also won the 2004 Texas UIL marching competition and the Sudler Shield from the John Philip Sousa Foundation. The band won the grand national championship at 2007’s Bands of America competition. Earnhart has a bachelor of music degree and master of music education degree from the University of North Texas. The new principal of Thomas Haley
Elementary School is Tanya Jones, who most recently served as vice principal of Nimitz High School. She came to Irving ISD in 2005 from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, acTanya Jones cepting a teaching position as an English teacher at MacArthur High School. In New Orleans, she served as principal at McMain Magnet Secondary
School and as assistant principal of Rabouin High School. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Xavier University. Klein ISD Associate Superintendent for Community Relations Liz Johnson has retired after 36 years with the district. She began her career in Klein in 1973 as a kindergarten teacher, becoming an instructional officer in 1976. She then served as an assistant See WHO’S NEWS on page 44
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