AISD Trustees Approve Nine Principal Appointments in March-April

This week, 小黄鸭导航 ISD's Board of Trustees approved six new principal appointments at five elementary schools and one middle school. The appointments are effective July 2013. The recent appointments bring the total number approved by the board during March and April to nine.

Trustees approved the following principal appointments:

Valerie Borchers as principal of Becker Elementary 小黄鸭导航. Borchers has served as assistant principal of Perez Elementary 小黄鸭导航 for the past five years. She has a total of 21 years of experience in public education, most of which has been in Title I schools. She holds a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Texas at 小黄鸭导航.

Samuel Tinnon as principal of Casis Elementary 小黄鸭导航. Tinnon has served as the assistant principal for Mills Elementary 小黄鸭导航 for the past nine years. He also has served as an elementary and middle school AISD summer school administrator, a mentor summer school principal to six principals, an administrative intern at Mills and Sims elementary schools, and a teacher at Pecan Springs Elementary 小黄鸭导航s. Tinnon holds a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Texas at 小黄鸭导航.

Kate Shaum as principal of Galindo Elementary 小黄鸭导航. Ms. Shaum is serving as an administrative supervisor in the AISD Area 2 小黄鸭导航s Office. Prior to this assignment, Shaum served as an elementary school assistant principal at both Pillow and Barrington elementary schools. She holds a master's degree in educational administration from Tarleton State University.

Ana Candelaria as principal of Harris Elementary 小黄鸭导航. She brings to the position six years of experience as an elementary campus administrator (three years as principal) and ten years of experience at the elementary and middle school levels. She holds a master's degree in education, guidance and counseling from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Grace Martino-Brewster as principal of Mathews Elementary 小黄鸭导航. Martino-Brewster has seven years of administrative experience and six years of teaching experience on both elementary and middle school campuses. Her experience includes instructional specialist, child study team facilitator, and positive behavior support program specialist. She holds a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Texas at 小黄鸭导航.

Leslie Dusing as principal of Dobie Middle 小黄鸭导航. Dusing is principal of Bernice Hart Elementary 小黄鸭导航, and she has served as principal of Blanton Elementary 小黄鸭导航. She brings 14 years of administrative experience (11 years as a principal), as well as experience as a bilingual and ESL teacher. Dusing holds a master's in education from Tarleton State A&M University.

Principal appointments approved during the board鈥檚 March 18 meeting:

Jenny DeLaune Daniels, as principal of Davis Elementary 小黄鸭导航, where she serves as interim principal. Prior to this position, Daniels was the assistant principal at Davis for five years. She also has served as a director of a local preschool and an elementary classroom teacher. She has 23 years of experience in education and a master鈥檚 in educational administration from Texas State University.

Angelo San Segundo, as principal of Wooten Elementary 小黄鸭导航. San Segundo has 18 years of experience in public education, with much of that time dedicated to Title I schools with similar demographics to Wooten. San Segundo serves as an administrative supervisor in AISD鈥檚 Area 2 schools鈥� office. Prior to this, he was an assistant principal at both Brown and Winn elementary schools. He also has served as a summer school principal, bilingual teacher and a counselor. San Segundo has a master鈥檚 of science in management and a master鈥檚 of science in school counseling from Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Dedra Standish, as principal of Summitt Elementary 小黄鸭导航, where she currently serves as interim principal. Standish was the assistant principal at Summitt for four years. She also has been a special education teacher and instructional coordinator for AISD. She brings to her new position more than seven years of administrative experience and 13 years of special education teaching experience. Standish has a master鈥檚 in education from the University of Texas at 小黄鸭导航.