Education
BY EMILY LINCKE
Experience and education
Bachelor’s degree in music education from Furman University Master’s degree in music education in instrumental music from Florida State Previously a district ne arts administrator for Flour Blu ISD in Corpus Christi
Prior director of ne arts for Nacogdoches ISD
Former band director in South Carolina, Florida and Texas
Paulette Tomlinson, the director of ne arts for Tomball ISD, joined the district July 3.
EMILY LINCKE COMMUNITY IMPACT
SOURCES: TOMBALL ISD, PAULETTE TOMLINSON COMMUNITY IMPACT
Tomball ISD welcomes new ne arts director Tomball ISD welcomed Paulette Tomlinson as the ne arts director July 3 following the retirement of the previous director, JD Janda, at the end of the 2022-23 school year. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. What have been your priorities so far? My priority for this entire rst year is building relationships with the people I work with. So, I need to learn about Tomball, and I need to learn how Tomball does things. Then the other thing that we’re getting o the ground right now ... is our mariachi program. We
Salazar-Zamora] that I would get it o the ground this year, and so we’ve been working on it. Do you have any priorities for the long term? Tomball is growing very rapidly, and what we want to do is make sure that all of our Tomball students have ample opportunities to be involved in ne arts. Fine arts is so good for kids because it educates them as the whole student. If I had my way, every single student ... would be in ne arts for their entire school career. So, my goals are to expand the number of students that we serve and that we reach. ... That means programming or adding new activities or like just increasing the capacity of our existing programs so that they can serve more kids.
are piloting an after-school version of it in hopes of making it a full- edged [University Interscholastic League] competing program. We’re going to pilot that at Tomball High School starting in the spring, and we’ve been laying the groundwork for that. The amount of support that’s here at Tomball for that program is just wonderful, and so I think it’s going to end up being a really great addition to our ne arts programming. Was the mariachi program something that was in the works when you got here? It was in talks. Mariachi is becoming a much bigger program. They have a UIL now, and that’s all pretty recent, within the last couple of years. The thing about mariachi is it’s an opportunity for more students to get involved, and it’s an opportunity for students to learn about another culture or to cele- brate their own. ... I told [Superintendent Martha
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