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BISD First Day Family Pictures
Welcome back to school Birdville ISD Families!
It’s an exciting day across the District. We invite you to share your favorite moments using #WeAreBirdvilleISD and send your favorite photo of your student(s) to BISDphoto@birdvilleschools.net to be included in BISD’s First Day 2018 photo album!
Bold Journey: Framing Literacy
Bold Journey: Framing Literacy
Administrative Leadership Conference
Birdville ISD
June 6–7, 2018
Birdville ISD held an Administrative Leadership Conference that included every campus administrator, teacher leadership teams, and central office June 6–7. The purpose of the conference was to prepare campuses for next school year by providing additional professional learning in our literacy initiative, continuous improvement, various strategies for improving vocabulary development, comprehension, and pertinent information about the teacher evaluation process.
In addition, Dr. Sue Szachowicz, a nationally recognized principal of Brockton High School in Brockington, Massachusetts, was a keynote speaker and presenter. She is recognized for her work in transforming Brockton High School into a nationally recognized high-performing high school. She worked with our campus principals and teacher teams on how to use literacy to improve student performance.
There were approximately 450 administrators, teachers, and central office staff in attendance. This conference was a great event for providing time to our campuses to learn, plan, and network so that in the rush of getting school started, plans are done in advance.
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Birdville ISD receives 1,500 books from EECU
Birdville ISD would like to thank EECU for the donation of 1,500 new Scholastic books for Kindergarten through third graders.
Birdville Elementary Wins Haltom City Clean Campus Award
Congratulations to Birdville Elementary for winning the Keep Haltom City Beautiful (KHCB) award. One Haltom City school was selected as Haltom City’s Clean Campus Winner for spring 2018.
Trustees Approve Two Administrative Appointments
At their regular meeting, Birdville ISD’s Board of Trustees approved the administrative appointments of Dave Lambson as executive director of technology and Lisa Collett Walker as principal of Holiday Heights Elementary School. Lambson is replacing Randy Sumrall, who is retiring at the end of the 2017–18 school year; and Walker is replacing Mike Dukes, who is also retiring at the end of the school year.
Dave Lambson has been director of technical services with BISD since 2013. Prior to Birdville, he was an enterprise solutions architect at Brigham Young University–Idaho from 2010–13; director of application development and maintenance at Katy ISD from 2006–10; lead developer at Xpediant Educational Solutions from 2002–06; and a web application developer at ExpressTimeSheets, Inc. from 2000–02.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and master’s degree from the University of North Texas.
Lisa Walker has been an assistant principal at Old Union Elementary School in Carroll ISD since 2012. Prior to Carroll, she was an assistant principal at Pflugerville ISD from 2007–11; assistant principal at Elgin ISD from 2006–07; instructional specialist at Elgin ISD from 2005–06; and fifth-grade teacher at Pflugerville ISD from 1997–2005.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University and master’s degree from the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor