Cover Story
Cover Story
Chose to be an educator and impact the future
Bramlette ES: Destined for Greatness
By JOSH WORSHAM, M.Ed. - PRINCIPAL, WARE EAST TEXAS MONTESSORI ACADEMY
By NIKITA MUMPHREY-PRINCIPAL BRAMLET TE ES
Growing up in our household, my brother and I witnessed our father work a full-time job while our mother was the homemaker teaching and caring for us. Even though being a teacher was one of her dreams, she chose us, and we became her students with our father’s full support. My mother was kind-hearted, generous, passion-
ate, intelligent, and loved children. I saw her live out her values of equity, honesty, and fairness during my childhood and that inspired me to want to want to impart the gift of knowledge and an excitement to learn; be a positive role model in the lives of students and influence them by cultivating a passion of discovery and the
magic of an inquisitive mind the way she did. I worked in many fields before I embraced my destiny in which my parents had nurtured and prepared me for all my life. For me, education is a way of life rather than just a way to make a living. What I love the most about the students, teachers and campus is the heart and pride
that is exhibited each day. At Bramlette, we are a family. We are a strong educational community that operates with unity, focus, and a culture of high expectations. Our students, parents, faculty, and staff are unique, resilient, and persistent. Committed, dependable, respectful, passionate, open-minded,
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and innovative are our core values that define our relentless pursuit of excellence yielding teacher growth and high student achievement. Our future is bright, certain, and foundationally sound. Together, we are Destined for Greatness!
Education Chose Me By CASSANDRA JAMES, HEAD OF SCHOOL, JL EVERHART ES
I did not choose education; education chose me. In fact, I feel like I was “born to teach”. Since I was old enough to play with my first desk set (at about age 5) I would get my older brother and sister to play school.
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Can you guess who played the role of the teacher? I even tried to escape what I knew God destined for my life by professing to everyone that I was going to be an engineer. Somehow, and it is still a blur, I never made it to the engi-
neering building- I ended up in line for the School of Education and the rest is history. My love for education stems from my love for children. Having the ability to touch, inspire, and even change lives for the
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better drives me to continue my path in education. Seeing children, especially ones others James, Head of ‘count out’, thrive, Cassandra School, JL Everhart ES excel, and ultimately succeed gives me the greatness within a personal sense of each of the stufulfillment. Teach- dents whose lives I ing allows me to lift have been fortunate the veil and uncover enough to touch.
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I chose to be an educator to make a positive impact on the lives of our future generations. I was very fortunate to have teachers who pushed me to accomplish things I never thought possible, and this had a lasting impact on my life. I am passionate about educating our students in new and innovative ways that prepare them to make an impact on the world. Education has the power to change people’s
lives for the better and I am very proud to call myself an educator. Especially in such an innovative charter network as East Texas Advanced Academies. Our students at Ware are nothing short of amazing. We set very high expectations for them, and I have been impressed daily with their unique knowledge of our world and how hard they will work to accomplish their goals. They’re fearless risk
takers, proud communicators, and always inquiring to learn more. At Ware, we know every student has the capacity to grow into a changer and we work every day to bring out what already exists within them. It’s an honor to watch them grow academically, socially, and emotionally each day. Our teachers are an exciting group to work with. They are smart and innovative and most im-
portantly, they are coachable. They want to grow and become better Josh Worsham, M.Ed., educators every day. Principal They have embraced a family mental- is always bright, ity and understand colorful, and very the importance of welcoming. It has collaboration to ac- an old building feel complish our goals. but is also full of They believe in modern technology our students and and amenities. It’s a challenge them to wonderful place for achieve new heights. learning that stuI love my job as dents are excited to Principal of Ware come to each day. East Texas Montes- This is going to be a sori Academy as we big year for us, and have such a beau- we are very excited tiful campus that to get started.
The students provide my “Why” By MEGAN BURNS, PRINCIPAL JOHNSTON MCQUEEN ES
As much as I enjoy working with the professionals on our campus who are passionate about and committed to our students, it's
the students themselves who provide my "why" for this job. There is nothing more energizing or humbling than to connect with a
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student. In the principal's role, I have the ability to connect with hundreds of children each day. I relate with the saying "To teach is to
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touch the future." It is our duty to make certain that the future we help create for our children is done so with great rever-
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ence for the possibilities inherent in each one of them.
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