SCHOOL NEWS
Meet the Teacher events readied
The new school year is about ready to kick off the first week of August.
Bowie Independent School District opened online registration on July 14. School officials report returning student guardians should have received an email with details on the Ascender Parent Portal. To access the portal visit bowieisd.net, click families in the top right corner and select the portal link.
If any family needs assistance campus registrars will be able to assist, call or visit the specific campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday. New students must pick up a packet at their respective campus in the office.
Meet the Teacher for BISD will be 5-6:30 p.m. for the elementary and intermediate schools on Aug. 4 and 6-7:30 p.m. for the junior and senior high school. Registration must be complete to receive a schedule. Help with online registration will be available.
The first day of school for Bowie will be Aug. 6. The full school calendar with daily start and end times is available at https://bit.ly/4kQPTV8 and on the district webpage at bisd.net.
Gold-Burg ISD student registration runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 22-25. Meet the Teacher will be at 5:30 p.m. on July 31. The first day of school will be Aug. 5.
Forestburg ISD starts the new year on Aug. 4. Meet the Teacher will be 5-7 p.m. on July 31.
Montague School opens the year on Aug. 7. Meet the Teacher will be 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 4. Students will be able to meet school staff, drop off school supplies, decorate their lockers and tour the school. Schedules for fourth-eighth graders will be in their labeled lockers.
Nocona ISD will have returning student online registration through Aug. 31 whose guardians can register through the Ascender Parent Portal.
New student registration requires a family pick up an enrollment packet from their campus between 8 a.m. and 3:30 through Aug. 31. Transfer papers must be returned and approved before children can be enrolled.
The first day of school for Nocona students is Aug. 7. Meet the Teacher for the elementary will be 4-5:30 p.m. on Aug. 5. At the middle school Meet the Teacher is 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Aug. 5.
Prairie Valley ISD starts the new year on Aug. 7. Meet the Teacher Night will be on Aug. 5 when there will be a pep rally and parent meet at 5:30 p.m., followed by classroom visits from 6-7 p.m.
Saint Jo ISD opens the new year on Aug. 12. Meet the Teacher will be at 5 p.m. on Aug. 7.
Bellevue School’s first day is Aug. 14 with the traditional bell ringing ceremony at 8 p.m. Meet the Teacher is at 6 p.m. on Aug. 11.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonnline.com
Bowie Independent School District Trustees began plowing through the 2026-27 budget at its first workshop on Aug. 3.
The center of discussion was presentation of the salary study commissioned by the district through the Texas Association of School Boards. Laura Wurman of TASB explained how the data was gathered and developed into recommendations for the district.
Purpose of the study is to assess competitive pay levels for common jobs. Wurman said they analyses market data to determine where the district is at risk and identified priorities for pay system improvements.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Diana Calderon will join the Bowie High School staff as assistant principal in the new school year.
She comes to Bowie from Lake Dallas Elementary School where she served as assistant principal since 2024. Her prior positions include administrator at Decatur High School from 2022-2024, and English as a second language director at Ponder High School and Middle School from 2017 to 2022.
Calderon’s educational background began with a bachelor of business management in 2007 from the University of Phoenix. She earned her master degree in bilingual education from Southern Methodist University in 2018 and a master’s in educational leadership also in 2018.
The educator is working on her doctorate of educational leadership.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
New Bowie High School Principal Dean Johnson brings 15 years of experience as an educator to the campus and he is looking forward to settling down in his new town.
The 38-year-old comes to Bowie from Farmersville Independent School District where he was junior high principal since 2022 and prior to that he was assistant starting in 2019. In 2023 he was named Texas Association of Secondary School Personnel’s Region 10 Assistant Principal of the Year.
Born and raised in Sherman, Johnson always knew his career path was coaching/teaching. He followed in his mother’s footsteps as she worked 30-plus years as a high school math teacher. His sister is a middle school math teacher and her husband is a teacher/coach both at Bells ISD, along with a cousin who is elementary principal at Burkburnett.
And dad can’t be left out, Johnson said while his father did several jobs, for many years he drove a bus for Sherman ISD, including those athletic team trips.
“I would often go with him on those trips with the football team and at seven or eight years old you look up at the players. I also was a ball boy. My path was set early,” said the new principal.
Read the full feature in the Thursday Bowie News.
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