Superintendent Announces Haltom High School Head Girls Basketball Coach 

BISD Superintendent, Dr. Gayle Stinson, recently announced the appointment of Shannon Fears to the position of head girls basketball coach for Haltom High School.  

Fears has been the assistant junior varsity and varsity basketball coach at Haltom High School since 2008, and ninth-grade and assistant varsity volleyball coach at Haltom High School from 2008–19. Before Haltom High, she was an assistant coach for the University of North Texas women’s basketball team from 2007–08, and assistant varsity girls basketball coach, head freshman girls basketball coach, freshman volleyball coach and junior varsity softball coach at Carroll Senior High from 2004–08. 

Academically, she serves at the special education department chair at Haltom High. 

As a collegiate basketball player, Fears received the following awards:  

  • Four-year letter winner 1997–2002;  
  • Sunbelt Conference First Team All-Conference in 2002; 
  • Voted as team’s Best Offensive Player in 2002; and  
  • Earned the team’s Leading Rebounder Award in 2002.  

Fears received her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas. 

Birdville ISD’s Educational Planning Guide Is Now Available Online

Planning for High School and Graduation

Planning a four-year high school program is a serious undertaking. 

Although many of courses will be determined by the graduation requirements, BISD students still have many other choices to make during their years of school. The courses selected should be guided largely by the student’s plans for the future.  

  • Will they continue their education in college or in a technical school/college? 
  • Do they want to join the military? 
  • Do they want to learn a career skill in order to enter the work force full-time immediately after school? 
  • Are they thinking of entering a profession that requires many years of specialized education? 

The answers to these questions are extremely important when making decisions about a student’s course selections for high school. 

Birdville ISD created the Educational Planning Guide to assist families/students in the selection of high school courses. The Educational Planning Guide is now available online!  

>View the Educational Planning Guide