New state-appointed HISD superintendent Mike Miles is restructuring the school system similarly to how he implemented changes in Dallas. The turnover rate for teachers increased from 12% to 22% during Miles' first two school years at Dallas.
. Eight years ago, after a tumultuous three years as superintendent of the Dallas ISD, Miles didn’t show up to his last board meeting.
Miles’ job is to get the district back on track in accordance with TEA standards. Already, the former Dallas ISD superintendent has announced sweeping changes to 29 schools that historically serve some of Houston ISD’s lowest-performing students. Wheatley is among this crop of schools.,” which he describes as an “innovative staffing model that puts the focus on classroom instruction and improved student outcomes.
saw improvements as part of the program, but scores fell again once funding dried up and teachers left because they weren’t getting paid the same.Miles also was the driving force behind revamping the school district’s “It’s not an effective management tool to say that test scores are going to be the driver of reforms,” DeMatthews said. “Test scores don’t predict all that much about what happens to students in the future.”Miles arrived in Dallas in 2012 after a successful stint with a small school district in Colorado.
Darville worked at Houston ISD before going to Dallas to work under Miles and is now the chief operating officer at YES Prep Public Schools, a charter school operating in Houston.
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