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Dr. Keeley Boyer officially approved as new superintendent

Dr. Boyer smiles as she answers questions from reporters

Trustees, Dr. Boyer agree on four-year contract

The Ector County ISD Board of Trustees held a special board meeting on February 28. A recap of the agenda is below.

1.      Roll Call.

2.      Verification of compliance with open meetings requirements.

3.      There was no public comment.   

4.      Trustees moved to closed session to discuss an offer to employ Dr. Keeley Boyer as the Superintendent of Schools.

A.      After returning from a brief closed session, Trustees voted 5-2 to approve a four-year contract for Dr. Keeley Boyer to become the superintendent of schools. 

Dr. Boyer has been serving as the interim superintendent since August. Before accepting that assignment, she had been ECISD’s Chief of Schools since September 2021. As Chief of Schools, Dr. Boyer led a team of three principal supervisors responsible for the effective oversight and development of ECISD’s principals. Under her guidance, the aspiring leaders program and principal pipeline resulted in the placement of internal candidates in all 11 principal vacancies in 2022 and 6 of 7 vacancies in 2024.

She holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership & Policy from the University of Texas, completed the Cooperative Superintendency Program from the University of Texas, the Forum for Education Leadership, the University of Virginia’s Partnership for Leadership in Education, and has been attending Holdsworth Center’s Leadership Collaborative for the past two years.

Dr. Boyer joined ECISD after working as a Regional Superintendent for Portland Public Schools for three years. In that role, Dr. Boyer supervised a region of 35 schools – elementary, middle schools, and 4 high schools. Prior to her time in Portland, she served as the School Support Officer managing, coaching and developing principals at 15 campuses (elementary, middle, and high schools) in Houston ISD. During her time in Houston ISD, she was a high school assistant principal and a middle school principal and earned HISD’s Secondary Principal of the Year in 2017.

5.      There were no closing remarks. 

6.      The meeting adjourned at 6:07 p.m.