Education
BY ANGELA BONILLA
Get to know David Vinson, Conroe ISD’s new superintendent
we want them to possess? They’ll make us proud to call them a graduate of Conroe ISD, and we’re going to focus on those values and those characters built. What skills are you bringing to CISD that you think will be beneficial? My job is to listen and to learn and be the ambassador from whoever I represent. And ... if you learn that at the very beginning, everything else is going to become so much better. ... You learn what their needs are, how you can best serve them, and then bring the complexity of ... what is public education in Texas, to solve the problems that they uniquely have. What further measures, if any, would you take to enhance student safety here in CISD? What we’re going to look at is making sure that we’re looking through those compliance measures, and processes [and] systems that make reasonable sense, and give measurable processes of safety. And then look at, you know, what the needs assess- ments are. I’ve not seen a need that’s not been met in terms of school safety, that I would change.
David Vinson was named the new superinten- dent of Conroe ISD in a 7-0 vote at trustees’ Sept. 18 meeting. He joined the district after former Super- intendent Curtis Null left the CISD after 25 years to take the superintendent position in Lake Travis ISD. Vinson has been the superintendent for Wylie ISD since 2011, which has over 19,300 students and 20 campuses. What goals do you have for CISD to help improve student outcomes and teacher retention? The first thing is that we’re looking at our curric- ulum, and we’re going to do a complete assessment of all of it. Then, the second thing that I’ve done is we’ll be asking the trustees, asking principals, asking parents—if a kid walks across our stage and we hand them a diploma, what character skills do
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. For a longer version, visit communityimpact.com.
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