KIPP Paseo Primary
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Meet Your School Leader
Tara Hinton began her educational career in the Jacksonville Independent School District in 1996 as a second-grade teacher at Joe Wright Elementary School. Ms. Hinton spent three years teaching within the district as a second and multi-age-grade teacher at Joe Wright Elementary and second-grade teacher at Few Primary in Jasper before accepting her first assistant principal position in her hometown at Rusk Independent School District. Over the next two years, Ms. Hinton served as an elementary assistant principal in both Jasper and Manor Independent School Districts, respectively. In 2007, Ms. Hinton became the founding principal of Presidential Meadows Elementary in Manor Independent School District. She later transitioned back to East Texas as principal for Tyler Independent School District as building principal for Orr Elementary School, Boulter Middle School, and Clarkston Elementary School. This year marks her twenty-eighth year in education and twenty-second as a school principal. rnrnMs. Hinton received an Associate’s Degree in Elementary Education from Jacksonville College in 1994 and a Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at Tyler in 1996. She returned to Stephen F. Austin State University, earning her Master’s in Instructional Leadership. After several years of teaching and administration, she completed her superintendent coursework and is pursuing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Texas at Tyler, which she will complete in Summer 2024.