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Edgewood ISD spotlights Black History Month, CTE programs and student honors at Feb. 18 meeting
Summary
Edgewood ISD recognized students and staff for Black History Month and showcased career and technical education programs, athletic achievements and a new marketing campaign aimed at recruiting students into CTE pathways.
Edgewood Independent School District trustees on Feb. 18 heard presentations celebrating Black History Month, student and staff recognition and a series of career and technical education spotlights that included welding, culinary arts and cosmetology.
Teresa Salinas, the district’s chief of staff, opened the program highlights and said the leadership-definition framework developed with the Holdsworth Leadership Collaborative centers on three categories: "People matter, growth matters, and goals matter." She introduced three "leaders of the pack": Leslie Hernandez, a junior at Memorial High School and a student in the culinary CTE program; Rosa Nevarez, a human-resources specialist with two decades in the district; and Abraham "Coach" Segundo, a physical-education teacher at Loma Park Elementary.
Student and program recognitions included Loma Park’s advancement in a nationwide "Read to the Final Four" competition, John F. Kennedy High School academic teams and athletics (girls basketball made playoffs for the first time in more than a decade and boys basketball made the playoffs for the third consecutive year), and the Kennedy cheerleaders’ 10th-place finish at a national competition. The meeting also recognized three students who won the Region 20 Spanish spelling bee: Angela Nathalie Perez Cervantes (Las Palmas Leadership School for Girls), Alexa Veil Vasquez (Loma Park) and Genesis Lopez Yucera (John F. Kennedy High School).
The board saw a short trailer and remarks from the Edgewood Fine Arts Academy welding program led by Daniel Navarro; the program offers hands-on welding instruction and the opportunity to earn American Welding Society certifications. Marketing coordinator Frank Villareal and CTE director Javier Uribe were acknowledged for a new campaign and redesigned brochures and website pages intended to highlight CTE pathways, with an outreach focus on incoming ninth-graders and younger students.
Why it matters: The presentations were a combination of student recognition and district recruitment and retention strategy. Hernandez and Salinas framed the spotlight as both celebration and a recruitment tool as the district seeks to strengthen teacher pipelines and student engagement in career pathways.
Quotes from student and staff video clips were played for trustees and attendees. Abraham Segundo described his work with early-learning physical education as "just moving" and engaging with students; Leslie Hernandez said being selected as a leader of the pack was "an incredible honor." Teresa Salinas encouraged families to check the district website for summer camps, scholarship listings and new CTE materials.
The board also thanked marketing and counseling staff and noted community partnerships that supported campus initiatives such as the EISD pantry food drive.
