Dr. Samuel D. Nix is the chief of schools in Texas’s Duncanville Independent School District. An award-winning educator, he has worked at multiple levels in the education system as a history teacher, coach, assistant principal, and principal. Dr. Nix believes in empowering methods that prioritize the student learning experience and create extraordinary results for all.

During his tenure as a teacher in Texas’s Arlington Independent School District, he led both his school and district in U.S. History State Accountability Scores. He was named Teacher of the Year in his second year of teaching and was runner up for Teacher of the District in 2005. While serving as principal at Seguin High School, the campus was named a National Model School by the National Association of Black School Educators and was named as one of the Top 32 Urban Schools in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. The school also ranked in the Top 10 percent of comparable schools in the state of Texas for four consecutive years under his leadership. Dr. Nix was awarded Principal of the Year 2015-2016 in the Arlington Independent School.

Since 2006, Dr. Nix has served as an education consultant for Education Career Alternative Program. He has been awarded a Leadership-in-Education Award from the Texas House of Representatives, the Mary McLeod Bethune Heritage Award for Education by the NAACP in 2010, the Dr. June James NAACP Education Award in 2016, and the Leadership Legacy Award from the Future Schools Network in 2019. He was also nominated for the Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award in Education.

Dr. Nix earned his master of education in educational leadership, his superintendent certification, and his doctorate in educational leadership from Texas A&M Commerce University. He has been featured in the New Horizon University of North Texas Magazine as a premier leader in education and appeared in The First Days of School by Harry Wong. Learn more at www.ensureeducationalsuccess.com.