JACKSON NAMED ESC REGION VI SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR

  

Brenham ISD has announced that Superintendent Dr. Walter Jackson has been selected as the ESC Region VI Superintendent of the Year.

The award program honors outstanding administrators who show visionary leadership toward improving student performance.

Superintendents are nominated by their local school boards for exhibiting strong leadership skills, improving education quality in their districts, and commitment to public support and involvement in education.

Dr. Jackson will go on to represent ESC Region VI for the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Superintendent of the Year award.

In Texas, twenty educational service centers represent 1,053 school districts. Each service center selects a superintendent to represent their region for the statewide award program.

Region VI Executive Director Michael Holland said there was a very strong field of applicants this year from all the boards that submitted nominations. He said Dr. Jackson “has done an outstanding job and is very deserving of the honor”.

Brenham ISD Board President Natalie Lange said Dr. Jackson is “unfailingly focused on providing a world-class education to our students and strengthening the local and global community of supporters for public education”. She said his visionary leadership inspires greatness in everyone around him, and she “cannot imagine anyone who deserves this honor more”.

Prior to joining Brenham ISD, Jackson served for 22 years in Alief ISD, a suburban district of 47,000 students. He has served as a teacher, principal, and area superintendent.  In 2010, he was selected by his peers as the Region IV Principal of the Year.  Dr. Jackson joined Brenham ISD in April 2015 as the superintendent of schools.