June 11, 2026—Tayaka Daniels, assistant principal at McFee Elementary School, was named principal at Lieder Elementary School on June 11. Daniels replaces Dinah McMichael, who was named CFISD’s director of human resources for staffing and employee relations on May 19.
Daniels has 29 years of experience in education. She began her career out in North Carolina in 1997, teaching fourth grade at Eaton Elementary School in Wilmington for two years before spending five years teaching fourth and fifth grade at Holt Elementary School in Durham.
She moved to Houston in 2004, teaching fifth grade math and science at Chancellor Elementary School in Alief ISD for a year before taking her first job in CFISD as an instructional specialist and reading interventionist at Horne Elementary School in 2006. In the summer of 2012, she joined Hemmenway Elementary School as a testing coordinator and instructional specialist, where she spent 10 years before taking her most recent job at McFee…