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Connecting with Kids: Holdsworth hopes better principals produce better Texas academic results

By Jacob Carpenter, The Houston Chronicle|December 3, 2018
Tiffany Foster, Principal of Pink Elementary in Lamar CISD.
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As children settled in on a recent Thursday morning at Pink Elementary School, home to 550 primarily lower-income students in Fort Bend County’s Lamar CISD, the school’s ebullient principal, Tiffany Foster, embarked on her daily ritual: a power walk from class to class.

Foster started in the lower grades, popping into Carmen Abilucea’s second-grade bilingual class to peek over a girl’s shoulder at her worksheet. Several minutes later, Foster reached Pink’s upper grade levels, crouching down in a hallway to whisper to a fifth-grader wearing a forlorn look. Finally, she arrived in the school’s pre-kindergarten wing, quipping that the adoring 4-year-olds are “where I go to get my self-esteem.”

“Just saying ‘hello’ can kind of change that kid’s day,” said Foster, now in her third-year leading Pink Elementary. “They come up wanting a hug, wanting a high-five. Just that connection means a lot.”

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