Hoskins to Wear Several Hats
Ken Hoskins, the newly hired elementary school principal, will also be the head football coach and athletic director. His salary will be $55,000 on an 11-month contract. Hoskins graduated from C.E. King High School in Houston (1972) and has a B.S. degree in physical education and health from Howard Payne University, where he had a golf scholarship. He earned a Master’s in education – administration and also mid-management certification from West Texas A & M University in 1986 and completed superintendent’s course work at Sul Ross State University in 1993. He has teaching fields in biology-life science – sixth grade science, English (grades 8-12), health, PE (grades 6-12) and driver’s education.
Educational Experience Varied
Hoskins has 25 years teaching experience. Most recently, he was at Whitharral, where he was K – 12 principal (1989-94; 1996-98), superintendent of schools (1994-96) and registrar (2002). Also at Whitharral, he was head boys’ basketball coach (1990-91), head girls’ and boys’ golf coach (1993-2000) and head football (six-man), assistant basketball and head boys’ track coach (1998-02).
From 1986 to 1989, he was elementary school principal at Olton ISD, where he was also an assistant football and assistant girls’ basketball coach. At Hart ISD from 1980 to ’85, he was assistant high school principal for two years, and coached, at various times, football, girls’ and boys’ basketball and track.
Melanie Hoskins, who will teach in the local elementary school, has a B.S. in elementary education with a minor in physical education form Baylor University (1979), an M.S. in library science from West Texas A & M (1985), and 24 years teaching experience. The Hoskins have two children, Jamie Diane (19) and Brandon Keith (18).