Leadership

Priscilla Collins-Parhms

Current Position: Managing Director, Summit Prep and Peak Prep

Previous Position: Senior Director, Summit International Preparatory

Education: Master's: Educational Administration (California State University, San Bernadino)

Bachelor's: Radio and Television Management (Northeast Louisiana University)

Favorite Quote: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

Contact: pparhms@uplifteducation.org

Karen Evans

Current Position: Upper School/Lead Director, Summit International Preparatory

Previous Position: Secondary School Director, Summit International Preparatory

Education: Master's: Administration – Education (University of North Texas)

Bachelor's: Journalism (Texas A&M)

Favorite Quote: "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Contact: kevans@uplifteducation.org

Anson Jackson

Current Position: Middle School Director, Summit International Prep

Previous Position: Dean of Instruction, Summit International Prep; Math Intervention Strategist, Adams Middle School, Grand Prairie ISD

Education: Master's: Education - Leadership and Policy (Southern Methodist University)

Bachelor's: Mathematics (University of Kansas)

Favorite Quote: "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcom X

Contact: anjackson@uplifteducation.org

Jacquelyn Burden

Current Position: Primary School Director, Summit International Preparatory

Previous Position: Instructional Coach, North Hills Preparatory

Education: Master's: Educational Leadership and Supervision (Sam Houston State University)

Bachelor's: Business Administration - Management concentration (East Central University)

Favorite Quote: "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...." - The Little Engine that Could

Contact: jburden@uplifteducation.org

Alvin Collins

Current Position: Operations Director, Summit International Preparatory

Previous Position: Primary Art Teacher, Summit International Preparatory

Education: Bachelor's: Mass Media Art/Graphic Design (Grambling State University)

Favorite Quote: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

Contact: acollins@uplifteducation.org

Alan Tolleson

Current Position: Upper School Dean of Students, Summit International Preparatory

Previous Position: AP Art Teacher, Summit International Preparatory

Education: Master’s: Education (University of North Texas - Dallas) - In progress
Bachelor's: Studio Art (University of Texas at Arlington)

Favorite Quote: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

Contact: atolleson@uplifteducation.org

Allen Anderson

Current Position: MYP Dean at Summit International Preparatory

Previous Position: Manager, Teacher Leadership Development at Teach for America

Education: Bachelor in Public Relations from the University of Oklahoma

Favorite Quote: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comforts, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Contact: aanderson@uplifteducation.org

Lindyn Kish

Current Position: PYP Dean, Summit International Preparatory

Previous Position: 5th grade science teacher, Summit International Preparatory

Education: B.B.A International Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Oklahoma, M. Ed. Urban Educational Leadership (expected graduation May 2013), Southern Methodist University

Favorite Quote: "There are two things that I want you to make up your minds t first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live; and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do." - Theodore Roosevelt, Address to schoolchildren, Oyster Bay, 1898

Contact: LKish@uplifteducation.org

Last Modified on September 5, 2012