Currently I serve the community of College Station as the Principal of A&M Consolidated Middle School.  AMCMS is a 7th & 8th grade campus in College Station Independent School District, College Station, Texas.  As an educator I have served as an intermediate school principal, high school assistant principal and high school teacher and athletic trainer.  
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As a principal I encourage my staff of teachers and paraprofessionals to be risk takers as educators.  Innovation in the classroom cannot occur when our teachers and instructional paras are not thinking differently, teaching differently than in previous years.  By giving educators the permission and freedom to fail, to be risk takers, educators are able to focus on the needs of their students and not teach to a test. 

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Jeff Mann
Public School Principal
​College Station, Texas

I believe that education is the great equalizer.  Regardless of our background or circumstances we all have the ability and capability to learn.   Without education, we will not be able to secure a free and independent future for ourselves and our children.  Without education, we will not be able to think for ourselves.  Without education, we are left to be influenced and controlled by those who are educated.

I recognize that obstacles to education to exist for many people, but our job as educators is to work to remove obstacles.  Our job as educators is to help our students to overcome.  When we fail to remove obstacles to education, we fail to create a better society in which we all live.  When we fail our students, we ultimately fail ourselves. 

There is no perfect education system.  The closest we will come to a perfect education system will be to create collaborative, inclusive learning spaces for students, teachers, and parents alike.  This space encourages creativity, purposeful risk taking, and challenging the status quo from learners and students alike.  We do not change for change sake but we constantly plan for change because change is constant in life.  When we have this education space, we will be able to achieve heights in our education that we did not dream possible.