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Tina Curtis didn’t originally see herself as a teacher and certainly not as a school principal at Barbara C. Jordan Intermediate School, where she is entering her 11th year at the helm. Curtis envisioned herself as a television reporter, chasing down big stories and conducting interviews with powerful movers and shakers. It took one mass media class in college to dissuade her of that idea, and Curtis was left wondering where her career journey would take her, until she stumbled upon it.
“I was giving roller skating lessons to young children, and a parent said to me, ‘You should be a teacher,’” Curtis said. “The rest is history.”
Thirty years later, Curtis has run the gamut from fourth-grade teacher to assistant principal, and since 2006, as principal at Schertz Elementary School and now, Jordan Intermediate. Her motivation has not changed since she entered the profession.
"No matter what has happened in the course of a day, I have impacted a student or adult in a positive way,” Curtis says. “It’s a servant’s field and I may never know how or when, but a difference is made daily.”
Those reminders reinforce that her career choice has been the correct one. “Every time I run into a student I served and they share something they remember about me, whether they were in my classroom or if it was something I said, or a nickname I called them,” she says.
Curtis received her Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from UTSA and a Master’s degree in Education Administration from Trinity University. She is the mother of two children: a son and daughter who both graduated from Samuel Clemens High School.