Whew…it’s been a whirlwind 24 hours but I just have to take a moment to say THANK YOU!
Thank you to the hundreds of you who have reached out via text, messaging, calls, in-person…I am overwhelmed by the love I have received.
I am forever grateful for our staff, our kids, our
Soooo…this happened today!!! I can’t believe that after 4 long years, so much sacrifice and time at the computer, I am finishEd.D.!!! 🎉💙 I’m Dr. Godino-Brotherton y’all!!!!
#thankful
#blessed
People work for people, people stay for people and people love for people.
I once heard a saying that people don’t run into burning buildings out of fear, they do so out of love…
As we think of the characteristics that leaders posses, we must keep in mind the importance and
2 years ago today I was in the ER-alone with COVID-unsure if I’d ever come home. After being on oxygen for 42 days, missing over 100 days of work, fighting for my life—I was able to return. In those moments I learned that people are GOOD &
Great is thy faithfulness🙌🏽
#Faith
No excuses…I’m so tired…school starts tomorrow, and when I tell you when I step foot in that building I’m ON 💯…I mean it, so this right here is essential!
Tie your hair back and get your workout IN!! Have to keep your mind and body healthy for our kids!
#fitleaders
#BTS
It’s already Friday Eve, again!✨
We often find ourselves looking forward to the weekend, the holiday break, the next day off, and in doing that we miss TODAY!
I want to be intentional about being present in TODAY and the blessings that come with it.
Thank you Lord for TODAY!
Happy Friday! ✨
Lost my pictures from the board meeting but just came here to say thank you to EVERYONE that has reached out to me over the past week. The love and support that I have received as I accept a new position in Alief ISD is unmatched!
I am in waves of joy and
This was one of the most powerful activities we have ever done as a staff.
We say we know our kids BUT do we really KNOW our kids?
Here, we identified every student in our school that we know:
-By name only
-By name and face
-Something about them
-Their academic status
This is a post I wasn’t sure I’d ever get to post. After a serious battle with Covid, today I was able to go back to work to continue GOD’S WORK in Alief ISD after being out for exactly 75 days. Today our AECHS President and VP came to welcome me “home.”
Last prom as a high school principal…
I’ve literally been to proms for almost 25 years straight (minus college)…thankful for the joy and memories.
Lasts are always tough🥺❤️. The rewards of this calling cannot be justified through words…
My people for life.
It’s a magical
Going into Thanksgiving break, I hope that we can all find something and someone to be thankful for.
Pick up your phone and text someone to let them know that you are thankful for them.
Studies show that showing gratitude to others enhances our own happiness.
#thankful
Super transparent moment for all my
@fit_leaders
…about 6 months ago my best friend since birth passed away from ALS at 42 years old. When she was diagnosed, I promised her and myself that I would ALWAYS take care of my physical body through proper nutrition and exercise for us
Be the reason our kids and teachers “want” to come to school.
Create an environment that they will remember for the rest of their lives…because of the love, accountability, expectations, safety, and joy that flows from you…create THAT, every day.
When this is created,
It’s taken me almost 3 months to share this…grief is a tough, weird thing.
I lost my best friend since birth in October to ALS., she was 42 years old. This is the most horrific disease I have ever witnessed with my own eyes. My best friend is the strongest woman I’ve ever met.
The Power of Mentorship💜
When you learn their stories, it changes EVERYTHING.
When you hear a student that graduated years ago say, “Dr. B, you’re my person,” in front of 200+ people, it just hits different.
Lord, continue to work through me!
#AliefProud
#HeartWork
Growth and change can only occur when true coaching and honest, love driven conversations happen…even if those conversations are hard.
All of the scoldings, write-ups, and discipline referrals in the world will never render changed outcomes if true coaching conversations don’t
Watch till the end…even the toughest shed tears when they care so much about our students’ success.
Most kids won't remember their favorite teacher because they taught them English or math...but because they cared, because they believed in them when no one else did…
🐝 KIND.
Kind people are my kind of people…
Celebrating Kindness Month.
Kindness is a choice, choose it every day…you never know who needs it.🤍
It’s a magical thing when purpose and passion collide.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#AliefProud
forever
Year 22 ✨
Day 1 ☑️
All in Alief ISD…
This year looks a little different but the mission is the SAME…loving kids, loving teachers, moving the work forward.
This community, our teachers, our students are forever my heart.
Praying that everyone has a wonderful year filled
Guess what day it is?!!
Friday Eve💚!!
I’ve been VERY under the weather BUT we are still finishing the week strong!
“Finish Strong:
More than a statement... It's an attitude.” ~Dan Green
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#AliefProud
#Everythingmatters
My prayer is that when I lead, it is ALWAYS with love…✨
That when others come in contact with me, in any realm, that HIS light shines through me.
That when others leave my presence they feel empowered to be all that they are created to be.
That through this calling HE will
Tomorrow is the BIG DAY!! 🎉🩷
Back to SCHOOL!
My goal, every day.
There are lots goals around academic success in this work, BUT my primary focus is for our students to KNOW every day that they are loved. Period.
Lord, let us be the anchor for our kids and shine through me.
“Thx for loving my mom.” ✨
Of all the gifts and thanks I’ve received as an administrator, this was a first.
I was standing in the front office when a young lady in her late 20s walked in and asked for the principal, only to find out I was the principal! She then said you look
Happy Birthday to my MOM🩷…the one who has ALWAYS believed in me, encouraged me and been a constant example of unconditional peace and love in my life.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
I love you!
Teachers...man teachers are some amazing people. My hometown is virtual due to COVID, my mom was driving by and saw my baby sister (ESL Department Chair) doing this...the little boy didn’t have WiFi. This is what our work is all about...Teachers, thank you!!
#bethedifference
People ask, how do you have time for this?
This literally took 5 minutes to make, I will always take 5 minutes out of my day for our kids, & the rewards of spending this time with them can’t be measured‼️
These kids will do ANYTHING for me!💙
#buildyourculture
#ownyoursuccess
Happy Birthday in Heaven sweet girl💕.
Some things never get easier, you just learn to deal with them. We will see you again Brylee Brooke.
Love you forever our first baby.
No one needs a perfect leader, they need an authentic one.
Lead with authenticity, accountability and love. Ask anyone, one thing I’m going to ALWAYS be is real…I’m the same in every area of my life and it’s the only way I know how to operate, with authenticity.
How you do
Today was one of the best days of my life. Blyss publicly proclaimed her desire to follow Jesus all the years of her life. Thank you Jesus for the CROSS.
My dad, the perfect example of love , baptized Blyss in the same church I was baptized in many years ago.
#Easter2023
Yalllll we are still at work…kinda😂.
These women do NOT have to be here with me…but they choose to be here—I am SO thankful for my staff, they are simply the BEST!
Working late to prepare for the Alief Youth Expo on Saturday 🎉. We are expecting about 400 students to attend
To My Knights, please take a listen…
As I write my final post as principal at AECHS, I want to say-thank you for the memories.
I pray that because of the time we spent together you have learned to love a little deeper, laugh a little harder and believe in yourself little
This morning when I walked into my office, THIS was what I saw…
Clearly some people from my previous school snuck into my office when I was out at meetings yesterday.
I needed this—encourage someone today…be the light!✨
God really does know what he’s doing…this calling is
Wednesday?
More like WIN-THIS-DAY! 🧡
Let’s make the most out of the final 3 days of this week!
Let’s WIN—count your victories small or large! Show up as your best self EVERY DAY!
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#wednesdaythought
#EverythingMatters
Wherever you are, create something special.✨
We have to create an environment that teachers, staff, and families cannot just walk away from.
One that before they move to another school, district, or job they at minimum have to stop and say, my goodness, I am leaving a really
Our final graduation together…❤️🥺
Forever thankful.
It’s a magical thing when purpose and passion collide.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#AliefProud
Thank YOU will never be enough…✨
Teachers are my favorite people on earth and always will be….
When we sign up to teach, we are really signing up to impact the lives of those who are in our classrooms for a lifetime. We get to experience the good, the bad, the joy and the
Core Memory💙
Today
@AliefECHS
was named a 2024 National Blue Ribbon School. 1/356 in the United States and 1/32 in Texas.
This is the highest honor awarded to schools throughout the nation. I am so proud to have been able to lead AECHS for the last 7 years.
Some will never
I want my daughter to say,
“My momma worked too hard for me not to be successful!”
This picture is the epitome of everything I want for my baby girl and girls/women all over the world!
Happy International Women’s Day!!
Building strong women EVERY DAY.
Here’s to strong
3 years ago today I walked back into work after a scary battle with Covid…if you read or ever hear me speak on my story, there is so much more to this triumph that what meets the eye…
This story is about facing death head on with faith, hope, perseverance, grit and
Tonight was a great night in Alief ISD!
@bigfunPhD
was named the Program Director at SOAR!
Talk about someone who loves our kids and teachers, and has dedicated her life to Alief ISD—THIS is what it looks like to trust the process…I love you Dr. Kerr.
#AliefProud
I love this so much!!✨
Presenting Culture Catalyst with my AECHS team one final time today…
My greatest accomplishment as a high school principal isn’t an award or a national recognition…it is that we were able to create an environment where teachers and students wanted to
Love you, Knights❤️.
24 hours ago, at this very moment, my last high school graduating class walked across the stage….
To our students, walk in your purpose, know that you belong where your feet are, no matter who tries to convince you that you don’t belong, make choices that
Waiting on HCC to start…and for those of you asking, we are still dancing🥰.
Yall the girls said this dance is “easy” Dr. B…ummm no, no it’s not🙃.
It looks slow and easy but… maybe I’m just old. Regardless, I’ll continue to pursue JOY relentlessly ✨.
Something magical
Mark my words, this pic will be super special one day…
@MelindaWinsto12
scored her 2,000th career point as a
@ladybearsbb
tonight.
This girl is special but not because she can hoop…special because she does the right things…ALL the time. You see, things like this don’t just
Proud to announce that
@AliefECHS
in
@AliefISD
is on the short list of Model High Schools in America!!
I am proud beyond words to lead such an amazing school❤️✨.
Thank you to
@ModelSchoolsHMH
for this recognition!
We are ready to share our stories!!
See you in Orlando!!
My best friend has ALS…so thankful I got to spend the weekend with her🩷…
Because of you, I say yes…over and over again.
I CAN! I will not take a single breath for granted.
This life is too precious for us to NOT say yes! Answer the call
@fit_leaders
.
#ALS
#biggerthanme
Once you’re my “kid” it’s a forever thing! We go wayyyyy back to Elsik HS. Billy knows I’ll support him for life!
The relationships we have with our students is often the biggest difference in their life.
How you do one thing is how you do EVERYTHING.
#AliefProud
forever
Happy Sunday ✨
In all that we do, let’s remember and acknowledge that nothing happens without a plan and a dedication to the WORK that the plan requires.
I don’t know about you but I’m not in the business of “hoping” that success happens.
People often see success and assume
Ya’ll the Texas panhandle is burning.😭🥺
Please pray for those in line of the wildfires and those out fighting it.
My Tio (dad’s brother) lost his home a little bit ago—this is devastating to see this happening anywhere, but when it’s HOME it hits different.
Please, please
Be RELENTLESS!!
From the outside looking in it seems accurate and I have heard countless times, “you have the smartest kids at your school…they cannot fail,” but this could not be further from the truth.
Yes, we have some smart students, but the majority of our students have
From
@ElsikHighSchool
in
@AliefISD
to the WNBA-a kid you could never fuss at because before you could get it out her response was ALWAYS to point to herself and say “my bad Coach.” So proud of our girl Adaora Elonu!! Love you-we are so proud of you!! Congrats!Hard work pays off!
Someone is always watching you…
As a leader, be the example, be the role model, be the one that helps others believe in the power that they hold within them.
Lord, continue to shine your light through me❤️.
It’s a magical thing when purpose and passion collide.
How you do
#NewProfilePic
Happy Sunday ✨
Been fighting strep and the flu🥺…
BUT forever thankful for former students who are also photographers…when then say, Dr. B, let’s go to the studio, you go to the studio 🩷.
These relationships we are creating last a lifetime!
How you do
It’s the most wonderful time of the year❤️🎄💚.
Closing out the final two days of school in 2023.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#AliefProud
#TisTheSeason
Loyalty is rare, but I am her…
Happy Friday! (Peep the jacket—my guy
@aliefstore
is going to always hook me up🙌🏽)
Reflecting on my way to work…I’ve been in
@AliefISD
for half of my life! Time flies…that’s just crazy to think about…half of my life!!!! This work is emotionally
Happy Thanksgiving 🍁
I am forever thankful for family and friends that make this time of year so special.
To my students, I hope you have time to rest and rejuvenate as we take on our last few weeks of school. I am proud of each of you and love you beyond measure.
How you
Accepting
@Principal_EL
’s challenge to be CRAZY about our kids...because they are worth it!! I will spend my life’s work being the “difference maker” and the “light” for our students!! 💙
#IChoosetoStay
Discipline is one of the highest forms of self-respect…
It’s easy to say we are committed BUT are we really DISCIPLINED enough to STAY committed when our mood or emotions shift or when we don’t “feel” like staying committed?
75 Hard has taught me more about discipline than I
ANNOUNCEMENT‼️‼️
@AliefECHS
is a 2024 NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL💙.
That’s it…that’s the tweet (if that’s what they are still called lol)
It’s a magical thing when purpose and passion collide.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#AliefProud
@NatlBlueRibbon
Tomorrow is our first day back with TEACHERS!!
Our teachers are the backbone of our campus-they are the dream makers and heroes for our students!
I can't wait!
The power of CONNECTION!
How you do one thing is how you do EVERYTHING.
Just CONNECT.
#AliefProud
#backtoschool
Happy Sunday🩷
As we move into the last 2 weeks of school in 2023, I encourage everyone to be intentional with how we communicate and respond to one another.
We all make mistakes, acknowledge them, make amends and move on.
Have a great week!
How you do one thing is how you
And one day later, we are here✨🙌🏽.
Influencing others is a primary goal of leadership!
How are you influencing and impacting every single person you come in contact with?
Blessed and honored to co-author such a powerful book that in one day is an Amazon Best Seller✨.
The
Happy Weekend✨
PEOPLE are the root of any success we create in our schools.
PEOPLE drive innovation and it is the leader’s responsibility to create a safe environment where a growth mindset is accepted and valued, where employees and students are safe to take risks and work
Happy Sunday! ✨
Not sure how many of y’all watched the South Carolina vs. Tennessee women’s basketball game last night but regardless, take a listen…
So many nuggets found in about 10 seconds total of a basketball game that can be applied to life:
-It’s not over until it’s
Quick trip to New York is good for the soul✨.
It’s a magical thing when purpose and passion collide.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#NewYork
Walk, talk, speak, BE DIFFERENT.
I BELIEVE in building leadership capacity in our students, and the only way to do this is with intentionality.
Our goal is to teach students that they have what it takes to be a leader, and show them how to use their gifts to influence others
I am here to WIN…in everything I do…
Hack The Class✨
Telling stories that need to be told, sharing the realness of education, being the light for others, and showing the world the power of education and the value of educators!
Got some pretty awesome merch in the mail just
We get into teaching to “make a difference,” but what I want you to know is that you ARE the difference!
Commit to having the best school year yet—to showing up as your best self, to keeping a positive attitude, to doing the work, to being the difference.
It’s a magical thing
Let’s GOOOO
@ElsikSoccer
💙🙌🏽.
It’s a magical thing when purpose and passion collide.
How you do one thing is how you do everything.
#AliefProud
forever