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SCHOOL TIME A Special Supplement August 21, 2015

August 21, 2015 A special supplement

Dear Bearcat Nation, iteI wanted to share with you my exc As we begin another school year, munity our students, parents, staff and com ment for what this year holds for our kids to this school year. The challenges as a whole. I am looking forward oy is enj l wil s the Bearcats and Ladycats will meet and the accomplishment time of year. always an anticipation for me this our ge of working hand-in-hand with I also look forward to the challen perus the many things you have given Trustees and staff in implementing the new tion including the construction of mission to do via May’s bond elec trict Dis our of s in your interest as patron fifth elementary school. Working was t t will protect the “Aledo Way” tha is a bond advisory committee tha 5 munity’s culture by the AISD 202 identified as so important to our com ted ise our school board in matters rela Committee. This committee will adv new s, ent em next two years. Capital improv to bond implementation over the new the ogy, safety/security upgrades and buses, enhanced/improved technol er things. school are coming among many oth you mory I won’t forget of which all of I would like to share with you a me receive June it is typical for students who were a part. At graduation in early e wer s kid our d and thank me. All their diploma cover to shake my han er, I wev ic standard of good behavior. Ho raised well and know this is a bas tes, centage, perhaps half of the gradua wanted you to know that a large per you for ething along the lines of, “Thank looked me in the eye and said som thanks ing say es that our kids aren’t just everything”. Clearly, this demonstrat t the effort, love and dedication tha as good manners. They understand many, nity standing up for these kids in comes from the Aledo ISD commu young se the t tha as this occurred on stage many ways. I remember thinking o lead wh group of young men and women adults really “get it”. What a great us all someday! let us children or you in any way, please If we can be of assistance to your is the children of our community. know. Our sole reason for existing challenges that face our district. I I look forward to the successes and hold grow, our core values and what we know that no matter how much we as special will remain.

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Former Bearcat Jake Bean takes new step into administration

By Tony Eierdam The Community News

After teaching and coaching for seven years, educator and Aledo High School alumni Jake Bean has taken the next step into administration after accepting a position as an assistant principal at Aledo Middle School.

Bean – a 2001 AHS graduate, was hesitant to leave his love of teaching in the classroom, but at the same time wanted to further his career, and seeking a position in administration was the natural next step.

“After I taught for about six years I wanted to become an administrator,” Bean admitted. “I have pretty much known from Day One that it would be a goal of mine. I love teaching, I love being The Community News

in the classroom and I love being with kids.

“I also knew that I wanted my career to progress and when I finally got my degree to become a principal. I really wanted the job in Aledo.”

Bean, who played football, baseball and ran track in high school, actually took unusual steps to become an educator. His undergraduate degree from Texas State University, earned in 2005, was in finance. After a year of traveling after he received his degree, Bean went into banking in Colorado.

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Weatherford College and landed a job at Western Hills High School in 2008, where he taught business and technology and coached girls’ basketball, cross country and softball at Western Hills High School in Fort Worth ISD. In May, Bean earned his Masters in Educational Leadership at the University of Texas at Arlington and shortly thereafter was hired at AMS. “I continually checked (the web site for) Aledo job openings and found the Aledo Middle School assistant principal position listing,” he said. “It is hard to say if me being an alum gave me an inside track – I really don’t know – but I would like to think that my experiences and my interview is what got me the job.

“But I do know that the Aledo community – the Aledo family – is a tight-knit thing, and for me to have come from the Aledo community and be a former Bearcat it is exciting to continue my career here.

In this school district, whenever someone who used to be a student here becomes a teacher, coach or another professional in the district it is celebrated.”

Bean and his wife Alison have three girls – Addison (8), Avery (5) and Alivia (3).

Bean feels he has the makeup to be an effective assistant principal.

“I think (being a good principal or assistant principal) is all about forming good relationships with kids,” he said. “I had great relationships with the kids in the high school I worked at in the past seven years, and I expect nothing less here.

“Where I am now the kids are a little bit younger and at a different stage in life compared to the high school kids, so something that might been important to a high school student might be important to a middle-schooled aged student. But it is all about letting the kids know you are here and care for them.”

Bean said that although his undergraduate degree is in finance, he said he felt “a calling” while in school to lean toward education. However, he said the dynamics were not in place for him to change his major field of study.

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“I almost changed my major in college to education,” Bean allowed. “But I was so close to getting my finance degree that if I switched to education it would have delayed my graduation by two years.

“At that point I decided I would pursue finance – and I did that for a year – but the time I was in banking I felt I was getting called into education. I gave banking a shot, but after a year I decided to give in to the calling that I had and I have never regretted it.”

Bean said he has no second thoughts switching professions despite holding a business degree.

“What I like the most about my job is all of the types of people I have had interactions with over the years,” he said. “I love building relationships with the students, teachers and professionals, and I enjoy having an impact on children and their futures. I feel I bring genuineness and a passion or education and seeing kids’ lives change. I want to help set them up the best I and my staff can for success.”

Bean fondly remembers his days on the AHS gridiron. He was a teammate of current Bearcats quarterbacks coach Blake Christenson in 2000 and 2001, starting as a strong safety in 2001.

He recalls the early days of head coach Tim Buchanan, now the Aledo ISD athletic director.

“Early Buc was a great man, and he still is,” Bean said. “He was a good coach, and he was super consistent with all of his guys. We always knew what he expected. I think one of the best parts about playing for Buc was going into every single game we knew we were going to win.

“That was just the mentality of the team. That has carried forward to this day. We always expect to win. But I will always be ‘Bean’ to him and he will always be ‘coach’ to me. That doesn’t change.”

Bean has now come full circle, from strong safety to a strong and important element of the Aledo ISD family.

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District Math Specialist Debbie Mantooth, standing, leads a session on using a smart recorder. Shown are (from left) Kara Jordan, Kelly Daves and Gena Berry

Teachers hone skills with Professional Development sessions in August Special to The Community News

The start of a new school year is at hand, and teachers are gearing up. Professional development sessions during early August covered topics from “Discovering the Genius in Your Students,” “Managing Your Classroom in the Cellphone Era,” “The Art of Parent Communication,” and more.

April Riley, AISD instructional technology specialist, led one class entitled “Tweet Your Story 6 August

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#aLEADo. Acknowledging that Twitter is a powerful tool educators across the globe are using, the session reviewed collaborating with other teachers and classrooms, sharing innovative strategies, and connecting with students and parents.

District Math Specialist Debbie Mantooth led “Teaching Wizard: Teach Your Class When You Aren’t Even There!”

Attendees learned to use a Smart Recorder that records and makes vid-

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eos of the teacher’s voice and computer screen. The Smart Recorder can also make a video of whatever is on the Smart Board.

“This handy device can be used to make videos of the teacher teaching the lesson. The lessons can then be left for a substitute to show to the class,” Mantooth said. “Teachers can be assured that the lesson was taught the way that they want, and important points are stressed for the students. Another use

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of the Smart Recorder is to create videos that could be used as tutorial videos for students to refer to if they need a lesson refresher.�

Orientation for teachers new to Aledo ISD was last week.

Meetings covered topics including Technology, Balanced Literacy, Thinking Maps, and much more.

RIGHT: Consultant Jessica Davis leads a session on Teaching Through Math. | BELOW: Tweet Your Story instructor April Riley (left) and Lendy Nicholson.

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New Aledo High School assistant principal David Stubbs brings experience to position

By Tony Eierdam The Community News

Entering his 22nd year in education and ninth as an assistant principal, new Aledo High School assistant principal David Stubbs hopes to parlay his experiences into a solid working foundation at his new home.

Stubbs, a 1979 Castleberry High School graduate who earned his undergraduate degree at Texas Wesleyan University in 1994 and his Masters of Education on the same campus in 2007, used his undergraduate business degree to work in the family business and later in private industry before getting “a calling” to education.

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coached football, basketball and track until 2000. From 2000-06 he was the middle school athletic coordinator at Weatherford ISD where he was also the high school golf coach. After one year teaching and coaching at Haltom High School, Stubbs spent the next five years as an assistant principal at Highland Middle School (Eagle MountainSaginaw ISD) before working the last three years as an assistant principal at Chisholm Trail High School.

“I kind of felt a calling to get into education,” Stubbs said. “As I developed where I wanted to be and where I thought I needed to be education had always been there and it was something I always wanted to try.

“I had not done that because of a www.community-news.com

family situation. I wanted to get into education to be a teacher and a coach and I never thought I would wind up in administration. Teaching and coaching go together – if you are a good teacher you will be a good coach and vice-versa.”

If there was a drawback for Stubbs going into administration it was missing day-to-day interaction with students and student athletes.

“Coaching was a lot of fun. I enjoyed coaching,” he said. “You get to know kids a lot better just because you are with them a lot more. I also enjoyed developing a relationship with the coaching staff.

“Coaching was very rewarding. I also enjoyed teaching, and I taught social studies so you get to lecture on a lot of different things, which I enjoyed. I have taught economics and career classes. I taught a lot of different subjects, and I felt like I was able to give kids some knowledge and information that will help them to be successful later on.”

Stubbs worked and went to college at the same time while also raising a family.

He has been married for 30 years to Carole, an Aledo High School graduate.

Stubbs and his wife have two children who are educators – a daughter, Erin, who teaches third grade at Benbrook Elementary School; and a son, Joshua, who is a sixth-grade science teacher at White Settlement ISD. “I went to school at night and worked my way through school,” Stubbs said. “It was tough, especially with a couple of kids at home, but I had the full support of my family. My wife was a saint through all of that.”

Stubbs said he was steered toward the admin side of the school business through a mentor at Weatherford ISD. “I actually thought I would never be an administrator,” he said. “A gentleman by the name of Jim Vaszauskas, who was principal of the Ninth Grade Center in Weatherford but is now Mansfield ISD superintendent, thought that I would be a good administrator and

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we had multiple talks about it.

“I think he saw, because I was a head coach in Weatherford that I was good at dealing with people and had developed good relationships. I am fairly level-headed – most of the time – and so I started pursuing it and got my first assistant principal job at Highland Middle School in Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD. “I do miss coaching, and you always miss something that you really enjoyed.

But there are aspects of this job that do the same thing – you are talking to kids on a daily basis and you are helping teachers be successful and you are just serving others in different ways. I like being around and working with people and I like seeing them succeed.”

Stubbs feels the experience gained by helping to start a new high school in EM-S ISD, Chisholm Trail, will help him as he takes a job in this fast-growing school district.

“Starting a new school from scratch is like drinking water from a fire hydrant – things are coming at you all the time and from every direction,” he quipped. “One of the things that you take for granted when you go into an established school is that processes are in place and traditions have been built.

“But going into a new school just simple things like how are you going to teach the kids how to stand in the cafeteria line and things of that nature.

You have to develop everything, and in those first three years we would evaluate ourselves as to what we did right and what we did wrong and if we needed to change something we would change it, and then we would look to what we needed the next year. But that was fun and exciting – we were always looking at everything because we were trying to establish new processes and build traditions. It was a lot of fun. I loved my time at Chisholm. If this position had not been available I would have stayed there.”

Stubbs feels that through his family he is “coming home” by accepting employment at Aledo ISD. “I wanted to work here because we 10 August

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“I wanted to work here because we live here and Aledo is home” live here and Aledo is home,” he said.

“We built a new home in the district about a year ago, and we have lived in this district for five years. Carole’s parents were graduates of Aledo High along with her, her brother and cousins.

“We go to church in the district, and we just felt like this was an opportunity to not only live but serve in the community in a lot of different ways. Taking this job was an opportunity to be a part of a community.

“And I think I can bring my talents to the district and help others to be successful. Because of the experiences I had at Chisholm I was able to gather a lot of information, but I am not here to change anything. I am here to help Mr. (Dan) Peterson make this campus the best it’s going to be this year and in future years.

Aledo ISD will continue to grow and there will be more kids coming here.

“I just hope to grow with it and be a part of it. There are a lot of things I have to learn, but I have a passion for my job, the kids and people. I will do what I can to help them be successful.” www.community-news.com

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Administrators and new teachers at Aledo High School are (front row, from left) David Caruso, Heather Oakes and Clara Chavez; (second row) Principal Dan Peterson, Christen Shaffer, Olivia Schlaegel and Assistant Principal Tessa Maurer; (third row) Robin Bateman, Elmi Martinez, Pamela Leitch, Kody Knight and Assistant Principal Carolyn Ansley; and (back row) Tyler Long, Kris Grgurich, Fred Jones, Jason Jenkins, Hill Flora and Assistant Principal David Stubbs.

Administrators and new teachers at Aledo Middle School are (front row, from left) Allison Webb, Sarah Mendoza and Mandy Musselwhite and (back row) Assistant Principal Jake Bean, Principal Cheryl Jones and Brice Crippen.

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Administrators and new teachers at row, from left) Barrett Bridges Walk and (back row) Principal Amy Sa Principal Jennifer Hoover.

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Administrators and new teachers at Stuard Elementary School are (front row, from left) Angela Adair, Assistant Principal Susan Stirewalt and Katie Graves; (middle row) Brandy Emmitte, Nina Meins, Kami Reed and Corina Flatten; and (back row) Principal Ron Shelton, Anna Falcon, Laura Lowe, Susan Ziegler, Emily Mooney and Jamie Turner.

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Meet the Ne Administrators and new teachers at McAnally Intermediate School are (front row, from left) Cassie Baumann, Karen Lasater, Kari Ward and Assistant Principal Holly Elgin and (back row) Principal Zach Tarrant, Micah Sapaugh, Della Reed, Nicki Dorer, Brittany Crimmings and Assistant Principal David Sweeney.

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Trinity Christiam Academy welcomed new faculty members Lyricia Squyres (Elementary Principal), Carrie Harless (Spanish), Amy Smith (K), Debbie Hill (2nd), Evie Janyszek (Music), Julie Davis (2nd), Sandy Griffith (Art), John Griffith (3rd), Michelle Andrew (Bible/PE), Gabe Goodman (PE), Joel Boswell (8th Science/HS Physics), Chris Dorrell (MS Math/Science), Ken Nobles (MS/HS Principal).

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Trinity Christian Academy provides faith-based learning in east Parker County Trinity Christian Academy opened its doors in 1993 with only 10 elementary students under the leadership of school founder and long-time chief administrator, Dr. Marsha Barber. A School Board was established, and Trinity began the process of receiving accreditation through the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI).

A steadily growing enrollment marked the school’s early years as did the addition of first-rate facilities. In the fall of 2000, TCA enrolled its first senior class (of only 4 students!), and on May 24, 2001, two young men and two young ladies were presented with diplomas at the school’s first high school commencement ceremony.

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that now boasts of professionals in a wide variety of fields spread across the country and world.

Growth continued, and in the fall of 2006, the school board announced plans for a new secondary building to accommodate increased enrollment. After four years of hard work, including the school’s first capital campaign, construction began on the new secondary building in 2010. On August 26, 2011, middle and high school students walked through the doors of a new secondary building. Later that same school year, Barber Gym was completed in spring 2012.

Over the 2013/14 school year, the TCA school board approved the school’s first five-year strategic plan, providing an even stronger foundation for generations of Eagles yet to come.

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New McAnally Intermediate principal excited to take next step in education

By Tony Eierdam The Community News

Education lifer Zach Tarrant did not originally plan on the business of school being his calling when he left Mansfield High School in 1999 to pursue a college degree at Sam Houston State University.

Tarrant, named the new principal at McAnally Intermediate School to replace the retiring, long-time principal Bob Harmon, at first saw a future in law enforcement.

“I actually went down to Sam Houston and thought that there might be a future for me in criminal justice,” he said. “They have a great CJ school.

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to do there was no doubt about it, it was education, and Sam Houston also has a great education program.”

Tarrant, who played football and ran cross country at Mansfield and earned a degree in political science in 2003 at SHSU, taught at Mansfield Alternative Center right out of college and from 2006-07 he earned a Master’s degree in Education Administration from Tarleton State University as he went back to school and worked at the same time.

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looming the Fort Worth district decided to keep Tarrant as a teacher until the end of the 2010-11 school year for fear of losing him if budget cuts forced the district to abolish some assistant principal positions.

At Leonard, Tarrant coached football and basketball and in the spring was an assistant baseball coach at neighboring Western Hills High School.

“I always wanted to teach and coach,” Tarrant said. “I got so tired of people telling me, parents mostly, who would say ‘Oh, this is a coach’s class, it must not be a real class’ and that rubbed me the wrong way. It really pushed me into wanting to advance my knowledge of education, and that’s what pushed me to go back and get my Masters in education.”

Tarrant explained that his original plan was to be a football coach – “I wanted to become an offensive coordinator” – and to work with kids.

“That is a great plan,” he said, “but it

wasn’t a plan God had for me. I found myself more in love with being in the classroom than I thought I would. It took me in a different direction. I love being in the classroom, so after I earned my Masters I continued to teach because I loved working with middle school kids.

“Coming out of college I saw myself as a high school guy and that was my plan, but God had a completely different plan for me. I got that Masters but I wasn’t ready (to get into administration). I felt like when it was time - if there was an opportunity for me - that’s where I would be led to go.”

Tarrant, living in Parker County with his wife Dana and children Ruby and Luke (who both attend Coder Elementary), saw an opening for an assistant principal at Aledo Middle School in 2011 and wanted to work in the same district his children were attending school.

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or six years, and I knew Aledo ISD was a great place and I knew a lot of people who had their kids out here,” he said. “I knew this was a desirable place, and I knew it would be a great place to work. I have always wanted to work in the same town I was raising my family in.”

Tarrant felt like it was more of a family atmosphere at AMS compared to his other stops.

“Coming from a school district the size of Fort Worth to come to a place like Aledo is different; it’s a different system,” he said. “And that is no fault of Fort Worth ISD, but for me the positive adjustment was realizing at Aledo ISD it’s more like a family-type environment.

“Here, the superintendent knows who you are. I think sometimes people have this misconception – especially those working in other districts – which our kids in Aledo don’t have challenges or they don’t have as many problems as other places. Our kids need as much love and attention as any kid. I think transitioning from being a teacher to an administrator … as a teacher, you build relationships with kids in the classroom – you are with those kids every single day.

“Just by the nature of being an administrator you still build relationships with kids but you have to really work to build those positive relationships because you know you are going to have some difficult conversations with some of them as well. Middle school kids are funny.

A lot of people think I am crazy for loving middle school kids because it is that turbulent time in their life. I will miss working with (AMS principal) Cheryl Jones and (assistant principal) Mandy Musselwhite - we were a great team – and the teachers are truly people who love kids at that age. I will miss the quirkiness of the kids at AMS and the conversations that I got to have with them The Community News

in the Bearcat Den.” Tarrant said he wants to build on what Harmon and staff have developed over the past few years.

“First off, you can’t replace Bob Harmon,” Tarrant allowed. “You can replace the position of principal at McAnally, but Bob Harmons are few and far between. This is a great school. You look at what they have accomplished, not only this past year but in the time Mr. Harmon had been here and there is strong tradition here and a strong culture.

I think that my job coming here is to get to know these teachers and get to know these kids and their families. My job is to keep moving things in the positive direction they are moving in. To build relationships with the teachers and families is important. You really can’t move forward until you work to build those relationships and get to know folks.”

Being a family man, Tarrant enjoys spending time with his children and looks forward to doing more with them as they mature.

“I love to be outdoors playing with my kids,” he said. “I love to be outdoors. We love going to movies. I like trying to find things to do with my kids. We go to museums, the zoo, Six Flags…that’s what I like to do.

“One thing I would like to do more of is take my kids to our family property near Ranger. As my kids get a little older I would like to take them out there on the farm like my Dad did with me when I was young.”

His goal as McAnally’s new top boss is simple.

“We have high expectations for kids,” he stated. “My goal is to come in here and know that I am building strong relationships with the staff and keeping this ship headed in the right direction.”

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Incoming ninth graders crowded into the Don Daniel Ninth Grade Campus on Friday afternoon, Aug. 14, for the school’s annual “Fish Camp.” Camp was from 3-6 p.m. followed by a pizza mixer.

The event was designed for students to pick up their schedules, meet new people, find out what fish life is like from former students, get a jump start on high school, and have some “crazy fun!” The student-led event was designed for students only – no parents!

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