Northside ISD board expected to name superintendent finalist today

Northside ISD Superintendent Brian Woods looks over his notes as he walks with 4th grader Beau Blanding during May Elementary School’s 25th anniversary celebration last fall.Northside Independent School District trustees are meeting today to vote on a lone finalist to succeed longtime Superintendent Brian Woods.

The board’s search began last fall, after Woods announced he would retire from leading the state’s fourth-largest school district at the end of the 2022-2023 school year. Woods has led Northside for 10 years and started his career as a teacher in the district more than 30 years ago. He said a shift in the state’s political climate, rather than the difficult years of the coronavirus pandemic, convinced him to leave.Woods said in November

. “The thing that really perhaps drove me to the decision is the toxicity of the environment with regards to politics and the distraction that it causes for people doing really important work in classrooms, certainly across Texas, and I suspect throughout the nation.”The Northside ISD board hired Mike Moses and David Thompson to assist with its search for his replacement and had set a timeline aimed at naming a finalist by early March.

The board and the search firm agreed on a candidate profile developed with community input. Trustees this month, talking to a selection drawn from 34 applicants from Texas and eight other states.

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