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When Deon Jackson was a freshman at The Citadel in 1995, he called his mother from a pay phone and told her that he wanted to come home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can come home,\u201d Janice Howard said to her son, \u201cbut I\u2019m not coming to get you.\u201d The next time Jackson called his mother and told her he wanted to come home, she said, “You can come home, but I’m not coming to get you, and<\/em> you can’t come here.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deon Jackson, a Citadel football alumnus and current Superintendent of Berkeley County School District, poses for a portrait at the Berkeley County School District office building in Moncks Corner, South Carolina on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Credit: Cameron Pollack \/ The Citadel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Howard\u2019s no-nonsense response put an end to her son\u2019s thoughts of leaving the military college. Home was 400 miles away in St. Petersburg, Florida. Jackson didn\u2019t have a car, and even if he had, he didn\u2019t have a place to live after he got there. Howard was a young, divorced mother of three. At one time, the family had lived in a one-bedroom apartment, but she worked hard\u2014sometimes more than one job\u2014and sacrificed a lot for her children, and they got by, eventually moving to a two-bedroom house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn’t have much,\u201d said Jackson, \u201cand I knew\neducation was a way to get to where you wanted to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson played football at Boca Ciega High School in\nthe Pinellas County School District. When then-recruiting coordinator Coach\nKenny Carter, \u201990, came to visit him, Jackson sat up and took notice of what\nthe coach said about The Citadel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat sold me was, at that point in time,\u201d said\nJackson, \u201cthey told me The Citadel had a 98% job placement rate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson was 18 when he visited campus for the first\ntime. He had never been on an airplane, and he had never been to South\nCarolina, let alone Charleston or The Citadel. What he discovered were uniforms\nand structure. And when other colleges were offering him scholarships to play\ndefense, The Citadel offered him an offensive running back position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson signed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, Deon Jackson, \u201999, is the superintendent of Berkeley County School District. As a cadet in the 1990s, he was an offensive running back for the Bulldogs. Credit: Russ Pace \/ The Citadel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There were rough patches along the way. He had never shined shoes or brass or worn a uniform. There was what Jackson calls \u201cdirect communication\u201d because he prefers not to say \u201cyelling,\u201d but he discovered that it was all for a purpose. Waking up early and going for a run to get the day started would become a lifelong habit. He also discovered leaders who made an impression and shaped his life\u2014Citadel President Lt. Gen. Claudius Watts, who made sure the football team knew that he was behind them. Assistant Commandant Col. Tony Lackey, who guided him through a rocky path in his cadet experience. Head Coach Don Powers, a mentor whose quirky sayings sometimes left Jackson scratching his head. There were others, too\u2014the ladies who worked in the mess hall and the gift shop, Ruby Murray in the library, along with Susan Redmond, Geri Jones and Sgt. Maj. Sylvan Bauer in Jenkins Hall. And as Jackson was making plans for a career in sports management and administration, there was Col. John S. Carter, a professor of health and physical education, who encouraged Jackson to pursue a teaching certificate so that he had multiple options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike every other little boy who played sports,\u201d said\nJackson, \u201cI was going to be a professional athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was Jackson\u2019s plan, but then he modified the plan.\n\u201cInstead of being a pro athlete, I\u2019m going to be the agent,\u201d he told himself.\n\u201cI\u2019ll represent the pro athlete and have a similar lifestyle without all of the\npractice and weightlifting and the injuries and all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson accumulated 18 hours of graduate credit as a fifth-year player. He was halfway through a master\u2019s program in secondary school administration, and he was planning to take a gap year in Charleston to have fun when he got a call from Coach Johnny Roscoe of Lancaster County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Several leaders he encountered as a cadet made an impression on Deon Jackson, \u201999, and helped shape his life. Credit: Cameron Pollack \/ The Citadel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCoach Roscoe is a legendary coach in South Carolina and North Carolina, but I had no idea who he was at the time. I had no idea where Lancaster County was at the time either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year was 2000. Roscoe offered Jackson almost\n$40,000 a year to teach and coach, and the 23-year-old who had borrowed a car\nto go on the interview accepted without preamble. For the next two years,\nJackson and his now-wife Adrienne burned up the road from Charleston to\nLancaster County to see one another. Eventually, the drive got old, the couple\nneeded to settle, and there was a master\u2019s degree to complete, which made\nCharleston the obvious landing spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jackson interviewed at Goose Creek High School,\nthe same school where he had completed his student teaching, Principal John\nFulmer hired him on the spot. Jackson, who was happy to be back in the\nLowcountry, forgot to ask exactly what he would be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Goose Creek High School, Jackson discovered he was\nteaching one physical education class. The rest of the school day, he served in\nan administrative capacity, and after school, he did what he loved most\u2014he\ncoached young student athletes, not just about game plays and strategies, but\nalso about survival skills and life lessons. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson was in his element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was in the best shape of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI had\nan opportunity to get some practical experience in administration. I was still\nable to coach, and then in the evenings, I would go to graduate school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years later, with a master\u2019s degree in hand,\nJackson moved on to Timberland High School, where he served as assistant\nprincipal. Four years after that, he was named principal at St. Stephen Middle\nSchool and then Cane Bay Middle School. And then it was on to the district\noffice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I like about education is the impact that it has\non the lives of young people,\u201d said Jackson. \u201cYou really have an opportunity to\ninspire and encourage and help young people develop into who they can become.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, Jackson was named superintendent of Berkeley\nCounty School District. It was a position he never thought he wanted, but in\n2017, when he was thrust into the interim position after the superintendent\nabruptly retired, he found he had an aptitude for picking up broken pieces,\ncreating normalcy and structure after a period of uncertainty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf it were just me, I’d be living on an island\nsomewhere, living off the land and fishing every day. It’s not really for me\u2014it’s\ntruly to have an impact on the lives of these students and their families and\nthe greater community,\u201d said Jackson. \u201cA school district is uniquely positioned\nto do all of those things through the resources that it has and also the\npartnerships. You have to be a good listener. You have to care about people.\nYou have to be consistent because children respect consistency. I think they\nwill push back against rules and structure, but the more consistent you are,\nthe more they appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the pandemic interrupting a smooth start to the\nacademic year, Jackson is currently busy seeking solutions to problems. And\nhe\u2019s casting his net wide to ensure that students who attended school virtually\nfor a year and a half are successfully reintroduced to the classroom. He\nrealizes, too, that education needs to evolve to incorporate the successful\nelements of distance education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs long as we can deliver consistent, quality\ninstruction, should that be eliminated from the realm of possibility? I don’t\nthink so,\u201d he said. \u201cWe talk about a teacher shortage, and this option may be a\nway to address some of those shortages by offering some flexibility in where we\nallow people to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a hot topic that many people debate, Jackson\nacknowledges, but it\u2019s a conversation he wants to begin. For specialty areas,\nlike career and technology classes where professionals are not likely to leave\na high paying job for the classroom, the opportunity to supplement their\nexciting careers with virtual classroom instruction may be an option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providing resources to students and opening doors so\nthey can see what\u2019s available is important to Jackson. And when he comes across\na student who seems like a good fit for The Citadel, he recommends his alma\nmater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love The Citadel,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are things I learned at The Citadel that I didn’t realize I was learning until after I got out. I still walk at a pretty swift pace, not quite 120 [paces per minute], but I walk at a pretty swift pace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his job as superintendent of Berkeley County School District, Deon Jackson, \u201999, opens doors for students, and when he comes across a student who seems like a good fit for The Citadel, he recommends his alma mater. Credit: Cameron Pollack \/ The Citadel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the hardwood floors in the renovated Berkeley High School that was built in 1929 and now serves as the district office, the staff knows when Jackson is coming. The sound of his swift steps is unmistakable. Also unmistakable is the difference his 21-year career has made for scores of students. There are stories of young athletes down on their luck, stories of young scholars struggling because of circumstances beyond their control, and stories of students in need of guidance, understanding or resources. And many times over, those stories had a happy ending because as a concerned administrator, Jackson took an interest, extended a hand, coached and came up with a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another unexpected student he influenced: Janice Howard. When Jackson earned his undergraduate degree, he inspired his mother to go back and earn hers. And when he earned his master\u2019s degree, Howard earned one too. During the career hullabaloo of the last few years, Jackson has put the doctorate degree that he\u2019s been working towards on hold. When he finally finishes, Howard just may find that she has another goal, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s been 22 years since Deon Jackson, \u201999, graduated from The Citadel, but the Berkeley County School District superintendent still walks at a swift pace. Credit: Cameron Pollack \/ The Citadel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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