Mike Miles’ charter network Third Future Schools is expanding to at least 7 Texas school districts<\/a><\/p>\nThe entries show an administrator who is keenly organized, setting aside time to prepare for meetings with elected officials, town halls, conferences and media interviews.<\/p>\n
He met with both Democratic and Republican politicians, including U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, state Sen. Molly Cook, state Rep. Brad Buckley, who chairs the House Public Education Committee, and the office of state Sen. Joan Huffman, who is chair of the Senate Committee on Finance.<\/p>\n
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Officials told the Chronicle that topics included constituent concerns and district updates ahead of the 89th Texas Legislature.<\/p>\n
‘Managing upward’<\/p>\n
White, who leads research at The Superintendent Lab, said Miles\u2019 schedule of campus visits and meetings with top district leaders and board members is \u201cpretty typical\u201d compared to other superintendents in large urban districts.<\/p>\n
White noted that because of Houston’s current governance structure, the state-appointed superintendent is potentially spending more than usual talking with the TEA and state conservator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not something that usually takes up a lot of time on a superintendent’s calendar,” White said. “He’s sort of managing upward to Austin in ways that most superintendents maybe don’t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Along with six “TEA Superintendent” meetings, Miles also met at least four times each with Anastasia Anderson and Doris Delaney, who have both served as the\u00a0state-appointed conservator for HISD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Delaney oversaw Kashmere High School and the district for more than eight years. After she left as conservator in December 2024, Anderson took\u00a0on the role in February 2025.<\/p>\n
White, who teaches at UT’s department of educational leadership and policy, said the calendar shows what Miles is scheduled to do, but it doesn\u2019t indicate the quality of the interactions, visits or conversations. It also may not account for any emergencies or unexpected events that occurred throughout the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to keep in mind that the calendar probably gives you a pretty good idea of how time was supposed to be spent, but superintendents deal with a lot of emergencies and things that need responses right away,\u201d White said. \u201cIf someone calls and an emergency happens, he’s not gonna say, \u2018Oh, wait, let me put this on my calendar first and take this other thing off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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White recommends superintendents spend their time based on what the community wants, and she says it’s up to HISD community members, including teachers and students, to determine the quality of time.<\/p>\n
How we did this<\/p>\n
The Chronicle obtained the records through\u00a0public information requests to the district. The newsroom extracted the entries using Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, and sorted them into categories \u2014 such as \u201cschool visits\u201d \u2014 using\u00a0ChatGPT.<\/p>\n
Multiple Chronicle reporters and editors then reviewed and re-categorized the data manually. They are divided into six categories, including general district business, travel, and\u00a0external affairs and\u00a0communication. Some groups have a few sub-categories, such as breakdowns for district leadership and board meetings.<\/p>\n
STATE OF THE DISTRICT: HISD’s Mike Miles focuses on preparing students for AI-driven world in annual speech<\/a><\/p>\nThe calendar entries do not capture every detail of Miles’ meetings or routine. For example, it’s not clear who joins his recurring “Sunday check in” or “end of day huddle.”<\/p>\n
Nearly all meetings are listed as released in district records. The entries were lightly edited for clarity, including correcting spelling errors, removing certain addresses for privacy purposes and adding attendees’ last names in parenthesis for context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston ISD state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles speaks at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Houston Friday,\u00a0Aug. 15, 2025. Melissa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-255934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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