Around Campus: Cunningham Serves as Interim Assistant Head of Lower School

In late March, Head of Lower School Trey Blair shared that Meredith Hudgens Cunningham ’04 will serve as Interim Assistant Head of Lower School School. Kelly Lanier Tierce ’93, who served in that role, is now the Director of Auxiliary Enrichment Programs. Cunningham has been a part of the third grade team since the 201920 academic year.

“Meredith knows FWCD and the Lower School well. During her five years here, she has done more than teach,” Blair said. “She has served on the Report Card Committee, playing a crucial role in reimagining our formal assessment records, and the Math Curriculum Committee, exploring math curriculum that will best serve us in the years to come. She is a studentfirst teacher and a great colleague. Her transition into a support role for our teachers and kids will be seamless, and she will thrive in this new position.”

Cunningham has been teaching for 16 years. She began her career in public schools in Northwest and Keller ISDs, teaching grades 2-5 and serving as a Technology Leader, Science Curriculum Writer, and grade-level Organizational Leader. From 2016-19, Cunningham was an Elementary Instructional Math Coach in NISD, serving students in kindergarten through grade 5. In this role, she spearheaded the implementation of teacher video clubs and math “lunch and learns”; facilitated professional learning opportunities for educators related to mathematics; collaborated with educators to plan engaging and relevant lessons that were differentiated to meet the needs of students; and modeled lessons in classrooms, demonstrating instructional strategies and best practices.

She ended the 2023-24 academic year focusing on the all-important job of teaching her third grade students and then immediately jumped into the interim Assistant Head role, planning for 2024-25.