May 2007/Regular Meeting

Students honored for numerous achievements

It was a night of special recognitions at the regular meeting of the Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees.Board members and Superintendent Kirk Lewis presented certificates to more than 30 students at the meeting for a variety of honors. 

Students who excelled in the Duke University Talent Identification Program, were honored by the board. As part of the Duke program, students took the Scholastic Aptitude Test and received state recognition by scoring 500 or better on the test. Students from the following schools who received state recognition were: 

BEVERLY HILLS INTERMEDIATE - Celeny Benitez, Lindsey Justice 

BONDY INTERMEDIATE - Anthony Norville, Andrew Woitena 

PARK VIEW INTERMEDIATE - Iain Furstenwerth 

SOUTH HOUSTON INTERMEDIATE - An Tran 

SOUTHMORE INTERMEDIATE - Diego Estrada 

THOMPSON INTERMEDIATE - Kaitlyn Wallis 

In addition, members of the seventh grade academic pentathlon team from Southmore Intermediate received honors from the Board. For the first time the school’s history, the seventh grade team advanced to the regional competition. The team made the most of their opportunity as they finished second place overall at the event, while several of the team members earned individual medals. The Southmore students also took second place in the Super Quiz portion of the competition. 

Winners in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo art contests were honored during the meeting and the Board received the HLS&R’s “Super Show Award” for the fourth consecutive year. 

Pay increases approved

The Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees approved a pay increase for all employees for the 2007-2008 school year at its regular May meeting.  With the increase, the salary for a beginning teacher in the district increases to $40,789. The raise is based on 3-percent of the midpoint for each pay grade. 

A complete teacher salary schedule may be viewed on the district’s website at www.pasadenaisd.org/personnel/salary.htm. 

New principals named

The Board approved the appointments of two new principals for Moore and Parks elementary schools. 

Jill Lacamu is the new principal at Moore and Frances Burley will assume the lead role at Parks Elementary. Lacamu has served as assistant principal at Frazier Elementary for the past three years. Burley comes from a district in Illinois, where she also served as an elementary principal.

In other personnel news, Thompson Intermediate principal Greg Jones was appointed as the new Director of Grants and Technical Projects. Jones served as principal at Thompson since 1996. He will begin work in his new position at the beginning of August. Jones will work with Susan Bauer, executive director of grants and special projects, in pursuing grant funding opportunities that will benefit instruction. He will also assist with special district-wide data projects and assist technical assistant teams with collection of data for submission of required reports to the Texas Education Agency.

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