Toby & Bethany Miller
Nominees Announced for 2013 Superintendent of the Year Award
Toby Miller, Southland ISD, Awarded Superintendent of the year!
(Austin)—Regional winners of the annual Superintendent of the Year (SOTY) award have been announced. Sponsored by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), the SOTY program has recognized exemplary superintendents for excellence and achievement in educational leadership since 1984.
Regional superintendents of the year and nominating education service centers (ESCs) are: James Ponce, McAllen ISD, ESC 1; Joseph Patek, Aransas County ISD, ESC 2; Keith Brown, Bay City ISD, ESC 3; Guy Sconzo, Humble ISD, ESC 4; Richard Bain Jr., Silsbee ISD, ESC 5; Mary Ann Whiteker, Hudson ISD, ESC 7; Traci Drake, Hubbard ISD, ESC 8; Bobby Burns, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, ESC 10; Kent Crutsinger, Sanger ISD, ESC 11; Scot Kelley, Penelope ISD, ESC 12; John Chapman III, Comfort ISD, ESC 13; Jay Waller, Ira ISD, ESC 14; Gary Laramore Jr., Texline ISD, ESC 16; Toby Miller, Southland ISD, ESC 17; Ralph Traynham, Fort Stockton ISD, ESC 18; and James Stansberry, Medina Valley ISD, ESC 20.
Candidates are chosen for their strong leadership skills, dedication to improving educational quality, ability to build effective employee relations, student performance, and commitment to public involvement in education. Superintendents from any of Texas’ 1,031 local school districts are eligible for nomination by their school boards. Local nominees are submitted to a regional selection committee, which chooses one nominee to send to the state selection committee.
The state committee will interview regional winners in Austin on August 23-24 and select five state finalists. The Superintendent of the Year will be announced September 28 at the TASA/TASB Convention in Dallas.
TASB is a nonprofit association established in 1949 to serve local public school districts. School board members are the largest group of publicly elected officials in the state. The districts they represent serve more than 5 million students.
