¡Lo logramos! Thank you to every leader, speaker, and teacher who joined us during our first teacher event. It was empowering to hear from presenters who continue to inspire and help shape the next generation of leaders. Until next time, keep leading with your roots. 🌱

🛍️ It’s Garage Sale Day at Worsham! 🎉

Come out and support our amazing @PtoWorsham at today’s Community Garage Sale! Find some great deals, discover hidden treasures, and support our school community! ❤️🐾

We hope to see you there!
#WorshamBESomeONE

🎉 Our Wildcats CRUSHED their LCP #2! 🐾🏆

We celebrated their achievements in Math, English Reading & Spanish Reading with a spook-tacular Meets & Masters Party! 👻🍿🎨

Hard work, popcorn & creativity made for a SWEET celebration! ❤️🖤

#WorshamBeSomeone #ChooseAldine

🐘🦁🦚🦅 💙🎉 Our staff is representing all FOUR houses with pride, enthusiasm, and school spirit! It’s belonging, and showing our students that WE BELIEVE in what we teach! 🙌❤️🧡💛💚@WorshamES_AISD #ChooseAldine
#WorshamBeSomeone #HouseParties

🦅💚 The House of Respect brought the ENERGY to our first House Celebration! From the cheers to the dance moves, our Wildcats showed what house pride is all about! We love seeing our students and staff celebrate together! 🎉🐾 #HouseOfRespect

The energy, the laughs, and the dance moves were EVERYTHING! 🦅💚🎉 @WorshamES_AISD #WorshamBeSomeone

🎉 Day 2 of our 1st Nine Weeks Perfect Attendance Celebration! 🐾❤️

Today, the spotlight was on our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Wildcats! 🌟 We loved celebrating their commitment to showing up every day and sharing this special recognition with their families! 👏
#WorshamBESomeONE

What a conversation we had @ALL_in_Aldine wSandraRodríguez, @Latinos4Ed
Lead from our identity, listen before leading, take time to understand your community
Dream about the community you want to build for the future and take action!
“Vuela, vuela… verás que todo es posible”

🎃👻 You’ve Been BOOed! 👻

A huge shoutout to @dinorah_chapa & @worshamteacher for bringing some spooky fun to our staff! 🧡🖤 Staff picked a lollipop, and the color determined their surprise prize! 🍬
#WorshamBeSomeONE #ChooseAldine

Join us this Saturday, October 24! @MultilingualAld will be presenting 4 different sessions for our multilingual families!! We can’t wait to see you there! Acompáñenos este sábado. ¡Los esperamos!

📣 You’re invited!

Join us for Leadership TALKS:

Transformational Leadership featuring Sandra Rodriguez, Executive Director of Texas Latinos for Education!

Let’s transform schools and communities together!

💙💛 Register via the flyer’s QR code.

#LeadershipTALKS

🧡💗 Together as 1️⃣ community! 🐾 Today, our Wildcats wear 🧡for Unity Day & 💖 to spread cancer awareness. We stand for kindness, inclusion, support, and hope. Together, we show what it means to #WorshamBeSomeone! 🧡💗 #PinkOutDay #ChooseAldine #UnityDay

🌟 Every Day Counts at Worsham! 🌟 We celebrated our 1st & 2nd grade Wildcats who achieved PERFECT ATTENDANCE for the 1st nine weeks! 🏆

A big THANK YOU to our families for making attendance a priority and helping set our Wildcats up for success!
#WorshamBESomeONE #ChooseAldine

Please join us in welcoming our new Assistant Principal, Mr. Roy Rocha! 🎉

We look forward to the leadership, passion, and positive impact you will bring to our students, staff, and community!

Welcome to the Wildcat family,@rocharoy ! 🐾❤️

#WorshamBeSomeONE #ChooseAldine

We kicked off our Aldine Latinx BOY event last night. ❤️

We were proud to recognize our founders, Dr. Faviola Cantu and Dr. Javier Villarreal, for their vision and leadership. 🌟 #LatinxLeaders

🌎 TODOS SOMOS, SOMOS UNO.

🌎 WE ARE ALL, WE ARE ONE.

Celebrating our heritage, honoring our roots, and building a stronger community together. 🎉

Celebrando nuestra herencia, honrando nuestras raíces y construyendo juntos una comunidad más fuerte. 🎉 #HispanicHeritage

📣 Please “Save the Date” and join us to continue to strengthen our leadership across our district.

🌼 We cannot wait to connect with you!

One of the most transformational practices I’ve implemented over the last couple of years has been requiring a silent start to the Do Now.

It quickly and clearly establishes the purpose of the work the moment students step into my classroom. More importantly, it explicitly models the expectations for every procedure, routine, and practice that follows. I strongly believe that if we don’t get the first few minutes of a lesson right, it becomes much harder to get the subsequent parts of the lesson right as well. The opening minutes aren’t dead time before learning begins. They are the beginning of the learning process.

I’ve committed to this even though it sometimes makes me feel like a bit of a lone wolf. Students are expected to begin their Do Now retrieval practice silently from the moment they walk through the door whether there are three minutes until the bell or three seconds. I’ll sometimes look down the hallway and see students in other classrooms mingling, talking, and waiting for the bell. The bell work is projected on the board, but students are still standing in the hallway, flowing in and out of the doorway.

And then, sandwiched in between those rooms, is mine. Once a student crosses my threshold, the expectation is simple: learning has already begun. No waiting for the bell. No waiting for me to tell them what to do. No transitional period between “arriving at class” and “starting class.” They walk in, get their materials, look at the board, and begin retrieving what they know.

That consistency does something important. It turns the beginning of class into a predictable cue for learning. The routine itself communicates: This is what we do when we enter this room. The students don’t need a speech about being ready to learn. The environment, the routine, and the task make the expectation explicit. The learning starts at the threshold.

Science has been in the works ! Matter unit #Density #MixtureEscapeRoom @DunnES_AISD @ArtishaHolmes

Great PD with a fellow 956 native! It’s powerful to learn from someone with shared experiences, especially when her strategies align well with the needs of our MLs. We must continue learning, growing, and bringing effective practices back to our campuses. #ChooseAldine #Puro956