Dallas ISD Officially Voting On New Superintendent Thursday

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Dallas ISD Officially Voting On New Superintendent Thursday

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Reporting Steve Pickett

"DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas ISD Superintendent finalist Mike Miles will face a final board vote Thursday evening. With board approval, Miles will become the new Superintendent of Schools for the second largest school system in Texas. His salary, however, may top all other Texas school leaders’ compensation.

According to two sources connected to contract negotiations, Miles’ salary and benefits offer will hover around $350,000. The highest paid Superintendent in Texas is Thomas “Butch” Carroll, of the Beaumont ISD. His salary is $348,000.

Miles leads the Harrison School District of Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was named finalist for the Dallas ISD job last month.

Late Wednesday, Miles boarded a flight for Dallas. He declined comment on the contract negotiations.

According to sources, Miles’ DISD contract would include performance incentives that offer payments based on student outcomes, graduation rates and state achievement ratings. The Dallas Board of Education meets at 6pm Thursday."

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A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Dallas ISD Officially Voting On New Superintendent Thursday

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