Please Vote for
Heather Sheffield
for EISD School Board,
Place Six

Heather loves the Eanes ISD community and wants to serve the children and taxpayers. She has a 4th grader and a 6th grader attending Eanes ISD schools. Heather is passionate about making sure that ALL children get the best education possible. She believes in transparency and engaging students, parents, teachers, staff and other district stakeholders. Heather understands the needs and concerns of our community and she is a good listener. She and her family are grateful that Eanes is already an exemplary and innovative school district and she is willing to do the work to make it even better.

Professionally, Heather is a Business Development Rep for Capital Title of Texas. She has spent the last several years working as a pro-bono advocate.  Her experience in business, as an advocate, and as a former 1st grade teacher, along with her volunteer work, has lead her to run for the school board. She has held almost every possible volunteer role within a school, including PTA President. Since moving to Eanes ISD with her husband and two children, Heather has been extremely involved at both the campus and district level as well as at the Capitol. Heather has attended almost all of the EISD Board Study Sessions and Board Meetings since moving to the district along with the 2018-2019 Bond Advisory Committee meetings. She founded the group Eanes Advocates in 2017 and has sat on the District Leadership Team since 2016. She is a member of the Envision Eanes committee and was a member of the 2018-2019 calendar committee along with the Eanes ISD Legislative Priority committee for the 86th Legislative Session and the Special Education Parent Working Group. Heather supports the Eanes Education Foundation and proudly served on the EEF Teacher Fund Committee. She was also instrumental in helping to pass the “Penny Swap & Drop”/Tax Ratification Election (TRE). Heather has gone to great lengths to learn about and understand the complicated school finance system in Texas.

Heather is the current Board President of the grassroots group, Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment (TAMSA). She testifies at the State Board of Education meetings and at House and Senate hearings at the Capitol often on behalf of Eanes Advocates, Decoding Dyslexia, TAMSA, and Texans for Public Education. Heather is invited to and regularly attends Texas Education Agency stakeholder meetings and was selected to be a parent participant on the Texas Education Agency’s Special Education Teacher Certification Policy Forum. Heather is also a Volunteer Deputy Registrar and a proud, active member of the Junior League of Austin.

Heather would be honoured to have your vote to preserve, protect and defend Eanes ISD in Place 6 on the Eanes ISD school board.

Heather is a strong and proven advocate for children. She has extensive experience at the campus and district level but also with the State Board of Education, the Texas Education Agency and at the Capitol.