Education/ Educación
Plainview ISD’s H.T. Sanchez
Superintendent of the Year Nominee
lainview ISD P Superintendent H.T. Sanchez, Ed.D., has been
RISING BY LIFTING STUDENTS: Principal Melissa Hernandez congratulated Lito Belmontes of Jose Ramirez Elementary who was selected as one of the The United Family® and Mrs Baird’s Bread® October winners of the 10th Annual Teachers On The Rise program. Congratulations from Latino Lubbock Magazine!
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selected by the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) as Texas’ nominee for 2022 National Superintendent of the Year, an award given by AASA, The School Superintendents Association. Sanchez has served as superintendent of Plainview ISD, a district of nearly 5,000 students in the Texas Panhandle, since 2018. Prior to that, he was superintendent of Tucson Unified School District in Arizona for four years. He has also served as a teacher, coach, principal, and in a number of administrative positions during his 23-year career in education. “The goal of the Plainview ISD teaching and learning approach is to create a turnkey system for instruction,” Sanchez said. “… Ultimately, our goal is for principals and teachers to have the time to focus on student relationships while creating fun and engaging learning opportunities. Students learn best when they are having fun, and teachers teach best when they are supported. This may not sound scientific, but Plainview ISD’s data
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illustrates otherwise.” Sanchez earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Angelo S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y, master’s degree in school administration from Sul Ross State University, and doctorate in educational administration from Texas A&M UniversityCommerce. He has been a member of TASA since 2018 and also belongs to the Texas Association of Community Schools, Mexican American School BoardAssociation, Texas Association of Business Officials, and Friends of Texas Public Schools. In September 2021, following Sanchez’s selection as Region 17 Superintendent of the Year, the Texas Association of School Boards named him the 2021 Texas Superintendent of the Year. Now, as a state nominee for AASA National Superintendent of the Year, Sanchez will be considered by a panel of judges from across the U.S. that will select four finalists to be interviewed in January. The 2022 National Superintendent of the Year will be announced, and the state nominees honored at AASA’s National Conference on Education, February 17-19, 2022, in Nashville.
l trastorno afectivo estacional, TAE (también conocido por su sigla en inglés SAD) es un tipo de depresión que se desencadena con las estaciones. El tipo más común de TAE es la llamada depresión que comienza en el invierno. Los síntomas usualmente, comienzan al final del otoño o al comienzo del invierno y desaparecen en el verano. Un tipo mucho menos común de TAE que se conoce como depresión que comienza en el verano usualmente comienza al final de la primavera o al comienzo del verano y desaparece con el invierno. El TAE puede estar relacionado con cambios en la cantidad de luz solar durante las distintas épocas del año. ¿Qué tan común es el TAE? Tantas como medio millón de personas en los Estados Unidos de América pueden tener depresión que comienza en el invierno. Otro 10 a 20 % pueden experimentar TAE leve. El
TAE es más común en las mujeres que en los hombres. A pesar de que a algunos niños y adolescentes les dé TAE, éste usualmente no comienza en personas menores de 20 años de edad. Para los adultos, el riesgo de TAE disminuye a medida que ellos envejecen. La depresión que comienza en el invierno TAE es más común en las regiones del norte en las cuales la estación de invierno típicamente es más larga y más fuerte. ¿Cómo puede saber mi médico que tengo TAE? a pesar de que sus síntomas son claves para el diagnóstico, no todo el mundo con tae tiene los mismos síntomas. los síntomas comunes de depresión en el invierno incluyen lo siguiente: un cambio en el apetito, especialmente antojarse de dulces o comidas con almidón. (In English, p. 10)
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