| Mike Anderson: Honors Area Superintendent |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Friday, 23 May 2008 | |
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A s a former student athlete, at Texas Southern University, Mike Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree in Urban Sociology. He then began a ten career in department store management. While working with the retail outlets Mike served as corporate representative and volunteer in public school. This experience helped him to realize his true passion and life’s purpose of working with at risk youth and providing re socialization services to schools and the community. In 1989 he left the retail industry and took a position as the Behavior Adjustment Instructor at Welch Middle School in Southwest Houston.
Since that time Mr. Anderson has developed a number of educational and social service programs. He started by creating and providing leadership for the Houston based Pro-Vision School for its first ten years. During the same time he created a first of its kind public boarding school for at risk students called Centripet. He then earned the coveted Residential Administrators license awarded by the Texas Department of Regulatory and Family Services. In 1991, Mr. Anderson went to work for TLC Emergency Shelter where under his leadership the agency grew from one shelter to thirteen programs throughout the Houston Metropolitan area. These programs included treatment centers, homeless shelters, halfway houses, foster homes, a boy’s ranch and a TYC re-entry shelter. He returned to Texas Southern University an earned a master’s degree in Clinical Sociology. Then later earned a second masters’ degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Educational Leadership. Mr. Anderson is a Texas Certified Principal and heads a Texas Education Agency Campus Improvement Team which provides support to school administrators and teachers’ of failing campuses. These services include assessments, recommendations and monitoring of academic and administrative activities. He is certified to administer the state recommended Professional Development Appraisal System required by most school districts. In the fall of 2000 he developed and became Administrator of the first alternative education campus for Buffalo ISD. During that time the district received its first and only exemplary rating. It was in 2005, the end of his fifth year working at Buffalo ISD, when Mr. Anderson was presented with a new challenge. An East Texas Charter District wanted him to oversee not one but two of their campuses. He accepted the position of Senior Administrator for both campus locations, successfully brought them both from a stage 4 non-compliance rating to an acceptable state rating and met the federal AYP standards for the first time in the school’s history. He most recently completed the development of The Antiquity Farm Residential Youth Campsite. He is the author of the (TEST) Texas Educational Services & Training Curriculum and the “GEESE” system which is the key component of his latest creation, New Memphis “The Experience”. Mr. Anderson has received a number of awards and recognition in the Houston area for his work with the Anti-Gang Task Force, D.A.R.E., Voter Registration Campaign, HPD Southwest Task Force and Volunteers In Public Schools which also includes the TEA Successful School Award, Foley’s Savvy Award, Channel 13 Community Service Award and several Proclamations from former City of Houston Council Members Martha Wong, Judson Robinson III and Sheila Jackson-Lee in addition to state recognition from then Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry. |
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