 |  |
Edgar Rincon
| Steve Troxel
|
Two administrators from the Socorro Independent School District have been selected by the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals (TASSP) as the 2012-13 Region 19 Assistant Principal of the Year and the 2012-13 Region 19 Middle School Principal of the Year.
El Dorado assistant principal Edgar Rincon was selected as the TASSP Region 19 Assistant Principal of the Year. He has been an assistant principal at El Dorado for four years and employed with SISD for seven years. He was previously a seventh and eighth-grade science teacher at Socorro Middle School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 2005 and his master’s degree in 2008 from the University of Texas at El Paso.
As an assistant principal, Rincon focuses on connecting with teachers to be successful as a team. “In developing my philosophy as an instructional leader, I have come to realize that the key for teachers to accept your vision is to build a positive relationship with them. Because they are different, it is important to get to know them.”
Steve Troxel, principal of Slider Middle School, was selected as the TASSP Region 19 Middle School Principal of the Year. Troxel has been an educator for 23 years. He was principal of Jane A. Hambric School for three years and previously served as assistant principal at Slider Middle School for six years.
He began teaching in the El Paso ISD in 1990 and came to SISD in 2000. He was selected Teacher of the Year in 1997 and 2003. In 2009, he was selected TASSP Region 19 Middle School Assistant Principal of the Year.
TASSP recognizes outstanding principals and assistant principals from the twenty regional education service centers in the state each year. They were nominated and chosen by their peers within their regions and the TASSP Principal Image Committee selects the finalists. Nominations are based upon exemplary performance and outstanding leadership in secondary education.
Rincon and Troxel will be recognized at the TASSP Summer Conference held in June 2013 in Austin.
