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Leadership Team

Our teaching and support staff is intensely focused on providing the best learning environment possible and the greatest care and support to each student

“ We know what a difference a strong education can make, because our lives were changed in just that way. ”

Senior Cabinet

Leonard Brannon

Superintendent & Co-founder

Glenda Brannon

Chief Human Resource Officer
& Co-Founder

Gene Zhu

Chief Financial Officer

Elda Rojas

Deputy Superintendent and Chief Academic Officer

David Tecuatl

Deputy Superintendent and Chief Operations Officer

Dr. Billy Ferrell

Chief Officer of Culture and Climate

Dr. Lisa Lovato

Chief Schools Officer

Campus Leadership

Clarencia Wade

Principal of Buckner Preparatory

Celia Sanchez

Executive Principal,
East Grand Preparatory

José A. López

Principal of Early Childhood,
East Grand Preparatory

Dominga Lira

Assistant Principal
Buckner Preparatory

Kimberly Austin

Assistant Principal,
East Grand Preparatory

Dr. Israel Garcia

Assistant Principal,
East Grand Preparatory Middle School

Curriculum & Instruction

Maria Jose Pajazetovic

Director of Early Childhood Development

Gabriela Camacho

Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Jacqueline Montemayor

Instructional Coach

Christopher Rizzuto

Special Education Coordinator

Norma Gomez-Fuentes

Dyslexia Program Lead Specialist

Abraham Manriquez

Emergent Bilingual Program Assistant

Natica Jones

Counselor, East Grand Preparatory

Felecia Iglehart-Lopez

Counselor, Buckner Preparatory

Laurie States

Speech Language Pathologist

District Staff

Sandra Verduzco

Communications & Marketing Director

Shelby Tims

Human Resources Director

Deborah Backus

PEIMS Director

Katie Nissen

Recruitment & Staffing Specialist

Ana Jurado

Marketing & Communications Specialist

MaryAnn Boyer

Accountant

Carolyn Smith

Accountant

Camille Jones

HR Assistant – District Staff

LeAnn Boggs

Payroll Administrator – District Staff

Brock Boggs

Technology Director

Collin Nugent

Network Administrator

Israel Zarcen

IT Support – District Staff

Ever Manriquez

IT Support – District Staff

Richard Hayes

Facilities Manager

Clarencia Wade

Principal of Buckner Preparatory

Clarencia Wade serves as the Principal for Buckner Preparatory. She joined Cityscape Schools in 2019 to make an IMPACT and to serve the community of students and families represented at Buckner Preparatory. This is Clarencia’s 17th year in education and her 12th year as an Educational Instructional Leader. Clarencia’s educational background includes working in Cedar Hill ISD, Grand Prairie ISD, and Trinity Environmental Academy. Clarencia’s time as an instructional leader has comprised of being a campus administrator, an Instructional Coach, an Academic Specialist, mentor teacher, district wide professional development presenter, and partnering with educational teams and service centers to ensure the educational success of all students.

Clarencia has a strong knowledge base in working with diverse learners, creating collaborative partnerships, implementing creative instructional strategies, applying 21st century technology skills, and interpreting and utilizing data to drive instruction. Through her understanding and familiarity with RTI/MTSS and using current research practices and strategies to serve all students, it is Clarencia’s desire to advocate and assist in providing a productive, collaborative, and rigorous academic learning environment. Clarencia is also committed to promoting lifelong learning and professional growth.

Clarencia is a proud alumnus of Dallas Baptist University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Education in 2002. In 2008, she earned her master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Lamar University. Clarencia is married to her high school sweetheart and are proud parents of four children. Clarencia enjoys spending time with her family as well as reading, shopping, working out, watching movies, and spa days. Being a mother has made Clarencia even more passionate, inspired, and committed to working harder as an educational leader to ensure that all students and teachers are reaching their full potential. Clarencia enjoys working in education and it is her hope to continue to strive to lead and revolutionize a system, a way of thinking, and a way of educating that promotes academic success and greatness that extends beyond the classroom walls.

José A. López

Principal of Early Childhood, East Grand Preparatory

José A. López serves Cityscape Early Childhood Center as the new founding principal. A native of Tampico, Mexico but proudly raised in rural North Carolina. He speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Japanese. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Global Affairs and International Development with a minor in Marketing from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. For two years of his baccalaureate experience, he studied and lived abroad in Japan and France. In 2010, he obtained his master’s degree in Educational Administration from University of North Texas – Denton.

Principal López has been in the education field for over 18 years and taught all levels from primary to postsecondary education. In 2001, He began his professional career with the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in the consular office in Raleigh, NC as Consular Attaché heading the Matricula Department and Liaison for International Visas. After college, he went on served as an English as a Foreign Language Instructor for the Mexican Institute of Petroleum (IMP) and the Upper School (High School) for Colegio Motolinia in Poza Rica, Veracruz.

In 2004, he began his tenure as a bilingual teacher in Dallas Independent School District. In 2012, he was admitted to the Principal Fellows 1st Cohort and became Assistant Principal at Martha T. Reilly Elementary. During his tenure at Reilly, he was the Language Proficiency Assessment Committee (LPAC) administrator, Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) administrator, Safety administrator, and Distinguished Teacher Review (DTR) feeder administrator. In 2015, he went on to expand and enhance his professional experience in the field of Higher Education, in Ana G. Méndez University – Dallas Area Campus. He began as an Adjunct Professor but quickly recruited to become a Corporate Trainer for new faculty. He went on to become the Operations Manager and later offered to serve as the Marketing Outreach and Recruitment Director.

In 2019, he came back to Dallas ISD to work in Human Capital Management in the Alternative Certification Program as Recruitment, Branding, and Marketing Coordinator. As the founding principal of the Early Childhood Center, he looks forward to getting to know each of his students’ families and work together to continue the long-standing tradition of pride and excellence.

Sandra Verduzco

Communications/Marketing Director

Mrs. Verduzco has 22 years of experience in the communications field. She was born in Mexico and moved to Dallas at the age of 10, speaking no English. She has an enormous gratitude for the many teachers who have impacted her education and career. Her passion to pay it forward led her to pursue a career in communications, to help the underserved community.

She started her career as a journalist in Univision-23 while attending college at the University of Texas at Arlington. She later joined her alma mater, Dallas Independent School District as a Media Specialist, serving as a Spanish spokesperson. After almost nine years in that role, Verduzco transitioned to the American Heart Association, where she held the role of National Communications Manager, leading multicultural outreach across the country for the Go Red For Women campaign. In 2017, Verduzco’s passion to serve the community in which she grew, led her back home to work in Dallas ISD’s media relations and crisis communications.

During her 2.0 term in Dallas ISD, Verduzco was promoted to spearhead the district’s marketing efforts. Under her leadership, the team executed districtwide, departmental and grassroots marketing campaigns, while strengthening campus’ branding by creating customized marketing resources for the district’s 230 schools. The intentional marketing efforts led to an increase in applications to the district’s choice schools and programs from two of the district’s major targets: out-of-district students and families from the Southern sector community.

Verduzco also oversaw the district’s Bond Communications area, creating awareness and recognition of the district’s focus for providing its community with renovated and state-of-the art facilities.

Verduzco pursued a Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University. Part of her community work includes being a board member for a second consecutive term in Dallas’ Association of Hispanic School Administrators.

The biggest pride and joy for Verduzco is being a proud parent of two boys and the wife of a school principal.