Aldine ISD Fall 2023

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DISTRICT SEES SOME NEW PRINCIPALS FOR 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR Several schools are starting the school year with new principals. Kory M. Jessie Caraway Elementary School School in 2018 to serve as an assistant principal before being named curricu lum assistant principal two years later, a position she held until her current post. Dr. Joshua Nation Davis Ninth Grade School

ry School in 2006, where she also served as department chair. Four years later, Brooks took on a leadership role at the campus, serving as the RTI (response to intervention)/dyslexia specialist and reading instructional specialist. In 2015, she was named assistant principal at Er mel Elementary, a position she held until being named to her current post. Purnell Harvey Knippel Education Center Purnell Harvey began his career in 1995 as a sixth-grade teacher in the Orle ans Parish Public Schools (Louisiana) before moving to Dallas ISD in 1998 to serve as an instructional technologist. Harvey returned to Louisiana in 2000, joining Jefferson Parish Schools as a special education resource teacher before joining Aldine ISD the following year to serve as a science teacher at Bethune Academy. In 2003, he moved to Houston Academy to work in the same capacity. His first leadership role came in 2008, serving as a district elementary science skills specialist at Calvert and Spence elementary schools. The following year, he served as an ac ademic assessment and data specialist at Eckert Intermediate School (now an elementary campus), where he served six years before joining Carver High School in 2015, serving in the same ca pacity. Harvey joined Spring ISD in 2016 as an assistant principal at Spring High School. Four years later, he joined West field HS (SISD), serving in the same ca pacity, a post he held until being named principal at KEC in July 2023. Crystal Mahar Lewis Middle School Crystal Mahar has 10 years of expe rience in education. Mahar began her career in 2013 as an 11th-grade U.S. History teacher and coach at C.E. King High School in Sheldon ISD. She moved to Magnolia ISD a year later as a teacher and head girls’ soccer coach. In 2016, Mahar joined Lamar Consolidated ISD as an assistant principal at Terry High School before moving to Spring ISD in 2019 as an associate principal

Kory Jessie has 17 years of experience in education, with all those years in Aldine ISD. Jessie began his career in 2006 as a fifth and sixth-grade teacher at Eckert Intermediate (now an ele mentary). Four years later, he took on a leadership role as a math instructional specialist at Rayford Intermediate School (now Ogden Elementary). In 2012, Jessie was named an assistant principal at Calvert Elementary School, moving two years later to serve in the same capacity at Rayford Intermediate School. Jessie also served in the same capacity at Jones EC/PreK/K School, Keeble EC/PreK/K, and the Knippel Education Center from July 2018 until being named to his current post. Cindy Buentello Carter Academy Cindy Buentello began her educational career in Aldine ISD in 2012 as a sec ond-grade bilingual teacher at Carter Academy, where she has served her entire career. Buentello spent several years teaching as a second- and third grade bilingual teacher. She went on to serve as an instructional specialist before accepting her first assistant principal position in 2018 at the same campus. A post she held until being named principal in June 2023 LaKeshia Williams Carver High School LaKeshia Williams has 17 years of expe rience in education. Williams began her career in 2005 as an AVID teacher and science department chair at Sam Hous ton High School. She moved to Fort Bend ISD five years later as a science instructional specialist at Eisenhower High School. Williams joined Aldine ISD as a science skills specialist at Eisen hower High School in 2011. Two years later, she moved to Davis High School as a science skills specialist and science department chair. In 2016, Williams was named an assistant principal at Carver High School. She returned to Davis High

Dr. Joshua Nation has 13 years of expe rience in education. He began his career as an eighth-grade sciences teacher at Mt. Enterprise ISD. Over the years, Nation has served in various capacities, including 504/RTI campus director. In 2017, Nation was named assistant principal at Sum mer Creek High School in Humble ISD, a position he held before being named to his current position in Aldine ISD. Jerome Nickerson Drew Academy Jerome Nickerson began his career in Aldine ISD in 2007 as a social studies teacher at Shotwell Middle School, where he has served his entire career. Nickerson spent several years teach ing — where he earned Campus Teacher of the Year distinction — and served as department chair and an instructional specialist/instructional coach before accepting his first assistant principal position in 2018 at the same campus. A post he held until being named principal in July 2023. James Metcalf Eisenhower High School James Metcalf has 27 years of experi ence in education, with all those years in Aldine ISD. Metcalf began his career as a teacher and coach at Stovall Middle School in 1996. While in Aldine ISD, he has served as an administrator at Eisen hower High School, a curriculum assis tant principal at Hoffman Middle School, principal at COMPASS/AEC (Knippel Ed ucation Center now), and most recently as principal of Davis Ninth Grade School. He has 22 years of administrative expe rience and five years of experience as an educational service manager. Lori Brooks Ermel Elementary School Lori Brooks has 16 years of experience in education. Brooks began her career as a third-grade teacher at Conley Elementa-

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