Share your thoughts on a new superintendent: Take a survey and attend an upcoming meeting

The HISD Board of Education is searching for a new superintendent, and trustees want input from community members about the qualities and traits they would like to see in the next district leader.

The board has hired Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates to assist in the superintendent search process. The Illinois-based firm is conducting a survey (which you can find here) and helping trustees host a series of community meetings in March to gather input from various district stakeholders. Feedback obtained from those meetings will be used by trustees to finalize their superintendent profile and begin searching for candidates.

The dates and times of the 13 additional meetings are below:

  • Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2016, at 7 p.m. (Trustee Harvin C. Moore, District VII) Lamar High School Library, 3325 Westheimer Rd., 77098
  • Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2016, at 6 p.m. (Trustee Rhonda Skillern-Jones, District II; Trustee Diana Dávila, District VIII) Forest Brook Middle School, 7525 Tidwell Rd., 77016 — This meeting is reserved for members of the North Forest community, and students and parents of Marshall, Hilliard, Shadydale, and Elmore elementary schools; Forest Brook Middle School; North Forest High School; and Fonwood Early Childhood Center.
  • Monday, Mar. 7, 2016, at 7 p.m. (Trustee Jolanda Jones, District IV) Sterling High School, 11625 Martindale Rd., 77048
  • Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016
    • 9:15 a.m. (Trustee Wanda Adams, District IX) Welch Middle School, 11544 S. Gessner Dr., 77071
    • 1 p.m. (Trustee Wanda Adams, District IX; Trustee Jolanda Jones, District IV) Mt. Hebron Baptist Church, 7817 Calhoun Rd., 77033 —This meeting is reserved for clergy in District IX and District IV.
    • 6 p.m. (Trustee Wanda Adams, District IX) Hines-Caldwell Elementary, 5515 W. Orem Dr., 77085
    • 6 p.m. (Trustee Anna Eastman, District I) Leonel Castillo Community Center, 2101 South St., 77009 POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
  • Wednesday, Mar. 9, 2016,
    • 1:30 p.m. (Trustee Jolanda Jones, District IV) Peck Elementary School, 5001 Martin Luther King Blvd., 77021
    • 7 p.m. (Trustee Jolanda Jones, District IV) Baylor College of Medicine at Ryan, 2610 Elgin St., 77004
  • Monday, Mar. 21, 2016, at 6 p.m. (Trustee Michael L. Lunceford, District V) Pin Oak Middle School, 4601 Glenmont St., 77401 Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2016, at 9 a.m. (Trustee Anna Eastman, District I; Trustee Rhonda Skillern-Jones, District II ) Oak Forest Elementary, 1401 W. 43rd St., 77018
  • Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2016
    • 9 a.m. (Trustee Anna Eastman, District I) Oak Forest Elementary School, 1401 W. 43rd, 77018
    • 6 p.m. (Trustee Rhonda Skillern-Jones, District II; Trustee Diana Dávila, District VIII) Wheatley High School, 4801 Providence St., 77020
    • 6 p.m. (Trustee Greg Meyers, District VI) Westside High School, 14201 Briar Forest Dr., 77077
  • Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2016
    • 6 p.m. (Trustee Anna Eastman, District I) Leonel Castillo Community Center, 2101 South St., 77009
    • 7 p.m. (Trustee Rhonda Skillern-Jones, District II) Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center, 4400 W. 18th St., 77092 — This meeting is reserved for clergy and elected officials in District II.
  • Thursday, Mar. 24, 2016, at 6 p.m. (Trustee Greg Meyers, District VI) Sharpstown High School, 7504 Bissonnet St., 77074

Superintendent Terry Grier is stepping down at the end of February. Trustees selected Deputy Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Ken Huewitt to serve as interim superintendent while they search for a permanent replacement. Huewitt begins in his new role on March 1.

Updates on the search for a new superintendent will be posted at: www.HoustonISD.org/SupeSearch.