K12 - Plano ISD - Plano, TX

PACE

Melissa Patton Melissa.Patton@pisd.edu (469) 752-4171 Melissa Patton attended college at Stephen F. Austin State University and received a degree in Elementary Education with a specialization in early childhood and reading. She also has a Master’s Degree in Gifted and Talented Education. She began teaching Second Grade at Barron Elementary in 1999. In 2010, she became the PACE specialist at H...

Counselor

Melissa Isler Counselor Melissa.Isler@pisd.edu (469) 752-4115 Melissa Isler is enjoying her fourth year in PISD as our counselor. She has 8 years of classroom teaching experience. She is certified in English grades 1-8, ESL, and has her Master's degree in Elementary Counseling. She loves vacations on the beach, the color purple and shopping at Target after dinner at On the Border. She enj...

Intervention

STAFF Seema Gupta ESL Seema.Gupta@pisd.edu (469) 752-4120 Seema Gupta started teaching in Plano ISD as a resource assistant at Beverly Elementary in 2002. Prior to teaching in Plano, she was a preschool teacher. Mrs. Gupta joined our Hickey All-Star staff in 2004. She cherishes every moment with her English Language Learners because she’s a 2nd language learner herself! She earned a Master'...

Title I Parent Involvement Policy Spanish

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Title I Parent Involvement Policy

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Helpful Links

Parent Links PASAR - Check out PASAR afterschool program offered at Hickey. ePay - Use ePay to pay for PASAR (after-school care) PayPAMS - Use PayPAMS to pay for lunch. eNews - Check out what is going on in PISD MyPISD - Register for Parent Portal to access grade, attendance, sign mandatory forms, and more! Volunteer Application - Individuals who are interested in pa...

PTA

Objectives To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community and place of worship. To raise the standard of home life. To secure the adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth. To bring into close relation the home and school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child. To develop between educators and t...

Art

Silvia Ibarra Silvia.Ibarra@pisd.edu (469) 752-4119 Mrs. Ibarra graduated from The University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio Texas and The University of Texas San Antonio. She has a degree in Communication Arts, and another in Bilingual Education. Her parents live in Frisco and her brother lives just outside of New York City. Mrs. Ibarra's favorite things are Art, Piano, Singing, and W...

Music

Debi Wooten Debi.Wooten@pisd.edu (469) 752-4166 Mrs. Wooten has been teaching music in various settings for over 30 years having taught Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade. She has enjoyed teaching here in Plano for 10 of those years. She graduated from William Jewell College with a BS in music with a K-12 certification. Since joining Plano ISD she has completed all levels in Kodaly certificat...

Physical Education

There are three coaches at Hickey Elementary School throughout the day. Coach Edwards, Coach Bischoff, and Doug Bleadorn provide the children of Hickey a variety of learning experiences each day. They may focus on personal fitness, eye-hand coordination, locomotor skills, manipulative skills and basic game situations and strategies. And, they always incorporate teamwork, honesty, cooperation, e...

ALC

Tracy Northcutt Tracy.Northcutt@pisd.edu (469) 753-4134 Johnnie Bassett Nurse Johnnie.Bassett@pisd.edu (469) 752-4163 Carol Long Carol.Long@pisd.edu (469) 753-4137 Melanie Paige Melanie.Paige@pisd.edu (469) 752-4162 Melanie Paige started teaching at Hickey Elementary in 2004 for the ALC unit. Mrs. Paige has a M.Ed. in Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities from Texas Woman’s Unive...

Special Education

Betty Haag Team Leader Betty.Haag@pisd.edu (469) 752-4155 Betsy Vosburg Speech Pathologist Betsy.Vosburg@pisd.edu (469) 752-4121 Jesse Mitchell Jesse.Mitchell@pisd.edu (469) 752-4169 Jesse Mitchell joined our Hickey All-Star staff in 2006 after working at Dooley Elementary for a year. She graduated from Texas Tech in 2004 with a degree in Multidisciplinary Studies. As a graduate from Plan...

Title I

The Title I program is designed to provide supplemental support to students who have been identified as scoring at or below the 25th percentile on district diagnostics and are at risk of not being successful on state assessments. All students who fail the TAKS test and attend a Title I school, qualify for services. Additional staff positions and teaching resources are funded with the Title I f...

Fifth Grade

Keli Sizer Keli.Sizer@pisd.edu (469) 752-4159 Erika Gershon Team Leader Erika.Gershon@pisd.edu (469) 752-4156 Knowing that she wanted to be a bilingual teacher, Ms. Gershon studied Psychology, earned a degree in Spanish, and completed the Teacher Preparation course at Southern Methodist University and is certified in elementary K-8, bilingual and ESL. With her love for American History, she...

Fourth Grade

Beverly King Team Leader Beverly.King@pisd.edu (469) 752-4150 Nina Billingsley Nina.Billingsley@pisd.edu (469) 752-4155 Nina Billingsley joined our Hickey All-Star staff in 2008. She joined Plano ISD after working close to 30 years in Texarkana, Texas. She received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University her master’s degree from Texas A & M in Texarkana, Texas. Mrs. Billin...

Third Grade

Jean Jones Team Leader Jean.Jones@pisd.edu (469) 752-4151 Jean Jones joined PISD in 2003. She likes to read and entertain. Her students benefit from her preferences! A native Texan and a member of the Hickey neighborhood, she enjoys dinner at Abuelos, likes pink, and gets relaxation from visits to the beach lying on soft sand and looking at clear water. She attended TWU and UTD, is certif...

Second Grade

Laura Durda Laura.Durda@pisd.edu (469) 752-4140 Jennifer McFarland Jennifer.McFarland@pisd.edu (469) 752-4142 Mrs. McFarland is a graduate from Texas A&M and has been teaching in Plano ISD for 6 years. She is happily married to her high school sweetheart Josh, and loves to spend time with her three children, Kellen, Keely and Kyle and also their goofy dog Boomer! Mrs. McFarland li...

First Grade

Kim Herbison Team Leader Kim.Herbison@pisd.edu (469) 752-4131 Kim Herbison is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, but came to Plano with her husband when he was transferred. Aren’t we lucky? She worked in a preschool, as a Mother’s Day Out Director, and as an elementary substitute. In 1999, she began working full time as a wonderful teacher. She has her Master’s Degree in Elementary Educ...

Kindergarten

Yomaida England Team Leader Yomaida.England@pisd.edu (469) 752-4134 Yomaida England has been teaching since 1998 and has been the team leader since 1999. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a specialization in Early Childhood. Mrs. England also has a Master's Degree in Early Childhood with a specialization in Reading and is ESL certified. She is also certified in gif...

Library

Paula Davis Librarian Paula.Davis@pisd.edu (469) 752-4127 Paula Davis came to Hickey from Oklahoma. Hickey has enjoyed our librarian’s presence since 2005. Ms. Davis also manages our science fair. She has a long and interesting history with elementary education lasting over 30 years! She has been teacher-of-the-year twice, is a 31-year member of the Oklahoma Education Association, and ...

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