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Anysia R. Trevino, the Brownsville Independent School District deputy superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction and Human Resources, said she will always remember how Brownsville pulled together for the good of students as the COVID 19 pandemic changed public education.
Trevino is departing to become superintendent of schools at the Alice Independent School District. She was named lone finalist for the job a few weeks ago and will begin work in Alice effective June 5.
The move will cap four years at BISD during a time when public education changed dramatically because COVID 19 forced school districts to embrace distance learning.
Closing the learning gaps that resulted also forced educators to recognize that deficits in social-emotional learning had occurred while students were absent from their campuses, she said.
“I’m very proud of our schools, and this past year being rated an A after COVID was a testimony of the work of all of us pulling together so we can continue to put Brownsville at the head of the class, very competitive with other school districts, so I’m very proud of those accomplishments, because we all pulled in the same direction,” she said.
“We just didn’t face the challenges of the COVID, but the social-emotional gaps that came with it … people were sick but we still needed to be able to continue to educate, and then there were issues with social-emotional because kids were disconnected,” she said.
Trevino admitted to having “fallen in love with the Brownsville community,” saying Christmas gifts she received from parents expressing gratitude for having heard them out about their students showed her that Brownsville had accepted her with open arms.
“I maybe didn’t give them everything they wanted but I heard them out. They felt respected. They felt that I cared for their children. That for me has been very fulfilling, that I’m making positive influences in the community,” she said.
From parents sending her emails saying, “if you ever need an advocate, call on me, … to the principals accepting any recommendations on how to improve the teaching and learning and how to review data, seeing it through a different lens and being open to those recommendations and ideas, have also made me feel very rewarded and very much acknowledged for the work,” she said.
“I love it. I’ve worked with a team that has the same vision and mission of improving the lives of students — through the pandemic, after the pandemic, we had a job to do and we were going to do it together, so that teamwork was very evident from across the board, from the teachers, from the administrators, from the parents, from my team here. We pulled in the right direction to get us through whatever challenges,” she said.
Trevino will be going from large district to small. BISD has roughly 38,000 students, 54 campuses and hundreds of administrators.
Alice ISD serves just over 4,300 students.
Brownsville ISD is nearing the end of its budget process. The 2023-2024 budget must be approved by June 30.
In Alice, the budget process will be starting just as Trevino arrives. The new budget goes into effect Aug. 30, she said.
Trevino grew up in the ranch country north of the Rio Grande Valley, so the posting in Alice seems like a good fit.
Geographically, she will be a little closer to her children.
Her son Christian is a student at Texas A&M University in College Station. She has two daughters. Jamie lives in Corpus Christi and is a news producer at a local TV station. Anysia lives in Houston and works in finance at Comercia Bank.
