Four principals named at July meetings

Four new principals were appointed throughout the district by the Board of Trustees at their regular and one special called meeting during the month of July.

Here’s a look at the principals approved by the Board in July who are assuming new duties with the start of the new school year.

Angela Stallings
Dr. Angela Stallings moved into another part of the South Belt community as she assumed the principal’s position at Thompson Intermediate School.

She replaces Greg Jones, who was named the district’s Director of Grant Writing and Technical Projects.

The South Belt area has been home for Stallings for some time. She has spent her 16-year career in education entirely at Dobie High School, where she first served as an English teacher, then as counselor, and, most recently as assistant principal. She is also a 1986 graduate of Dobie.

Stallings received her bachelor’s degree from Lamar University in 1991 and her master’s from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 1998. She earned her doctorate in educational leadership from Sam Houston State University in 2000.

Becky Vargas
Becky Vargas, former coordinator of Bilingual/ESL, is replacing Karen Hickman as principal of Matthys Elementary. Hickman recently accepted one of the district’s Executive Director of Campus Performance and Academic Assistance positions.

Vargas began her 23-year educational career in San Antonio ISD as a special education teacher. She served as a special education specialist for the Peace Corps for three years before Pasadena ISD became her home in 1988. For the next 11 years, Vargas was a special education teacher at Genoa Elementary, a bilingual teacher at Parks Elementary and a peer facilitator at Matthys.

Vargas took an administrative position in 1999 as an assistant principal in Houston ISD, but she returned home to Pasadena in 2003 as a special education specialist. She became the coordinator for Bilingual/ESL programs in 2004.

Trinity University in San Antonio awarded Vargas with her bachelor’s in elementary education in 1984, and she later received her Master of Education from the University of Houston in 1991.

Robert Stock
Robert Stock has been long familiar with ‘The Rayburn Way’ at Sam Rayburn High School, as he as served as an assistant principal for the last four years, and he will now take the lead as principal at the school. He is replacing Troy McCarley who recently accepted one of the district’s Executive Director of Campus Performance and Academic Assistance positions.

Stock has an extensive background in private education serving as a physical education teacher at St. Augustine Catholic School, a social studies teacher and coach at St. Pius V Catholic School and St. Thomas High School and a social studies teacher and head football coach at Mt. Carmel High School.

Stock first joined the Rayburn in 1999 as a geography teacher and coach. He returned to Rayburn in 2002 as a social studies teacher and coach before he was named as assistant principal in 2003.

The 19-year veteran received his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1988 from the University of Houston. In 2003, Stock earned his master’s in educational management from University of Houston-Clear Lake.


Keith Moore
Keith Moore, former assistant principal at Sam Rayburn High School, is the new principal at the Guidance Center. He replaces Doyle Alexander, who retired.

Moore began his educational career in 1983 as a high school band director in Mississippi and moved on to serve as a secondary band director in Arkansas for a couple years. Moore joined the Pasadena ISD family in 1986 serving the next 11 years as a band director at South Houston Intermediate and then at Beverly Hills Intermediate. In 1997, Moore took his first administrative position as assistant principal at Miller Intermediate and then moved to Rayburn in 2001.

Moore earned his Bachelor of Music Education from Delta State University in Mississippi in 1983, and he later received his Master of Education from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 1997.

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