ABOUT

Dora Sauceda is a skilled teacher and professional in principal leadership development who works in Brownsville, Texas. Please find out more about her decades of experience working in Texas school districts and her personal and professional plans for the future. Since July 2014, Dora Sauceda has been the assistant superintendent of schools in the Brownsville, TX Independent School District.

 

She works with other superintendents in the area to ensure that the Brownsville ISD campuses have everything they need to reach their goals during the next school year. She and her coworkers care about students' success from kindergarten to the end of high school. Ms. Sauceda knows that a strong foundation in childhood sets the stage for successful adult life. Her goal is to change her district so that students can choose between college, trade school, and a career when they graduate.

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Dora Sauceda is in charge of all the schools are making a lot of progress. She gives her high school students who don't want to go to college right after graduation several options for getting a certificate. Other students who want to go to college can take college-level courses in high school that will give them both high school and college credit. This will give them a head start and may cut down on the time and money they spend on college campuses.

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Dora Sauceda has been an administrator in the Brownsville school district for the past 20 years. When she started her career, she didn't think she would end up back in the public school district where she went to school as a child. She never thought she would become a teacher. When she went to college, it was to study biology. She came from a low-income family, so she decided to become a teacher to keep her income steady.

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Dora Sauceda taught at Gladys Porter Early College High School after she graduated from college. This is where she learned that she loved teaching. She then went to UT Austin to get a master's degree in education administration and a Ph.D. in supervision.

Dora Sauceda was the principal at Cummings Middle School. She helped the struggling school get out of a prolonged academic and professional slump by training and teaching the teachers and students. As a superintendent in Brownsville, she works with principals and trains teachers and administrators in her district on how to be good leaders.

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When she was a child in Texas, Dora Sauceda went to public schools in the Brownsville district. Then, as a young adult, she decided to attend the University of Texas-Pan American Brownsville, a well-known public school in the UT system. Dora Sauceda moved from Brownsville to Austin, Texas, because she wanted to be a school administrator. After finishing the Cooperative Superintendency Program at the University of Texas at Austin, she got a Doctor of Education. After getting her doctorate, Ms. Sauceda returned to her hometown of Brownsville to work in education administration.

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Dora Sauceda has several degrees that let her train people in education, management, and supervision. Dora Sauceda is a teacher with many years of experience. She knows that many people in Texas, including her students, don't have the basic things they need to live a happy, productive life. So she gives money to United Way every month and makes it a point to give to Goodwill regularly. She also gives money to the ASPCA to help save animals' lives and keep them healthy.

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Dora Sauceda has helped turn around two failing schools, Cummings Middle School and Porter High School in the Brownsville ISD, into places of learning that the Texas Education Agency wants to recognize. She knows how to work with teams of people from different backgrounds. Ms. Sauceda is proud of her leadership skills and ability to set standards for teamwork, inclusion, and hard work that will last after she leaves the campus.

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Dora Sauceda spends most of her time on her job as an assistant superintendent, but she also has time for her hobbies and her three children. Ms. Sauceda is a mother of three who loves her family more than anything else. She loves to travel and likes meeting and getting to know people from all over the U.S. and the world. Dora Sauceda also likes to run and makes it a regular part of her day to work out. In addition, Ms. Sauceda does weight training and conditioning regularly. She has also run several marathons, half-marathons, and triathlons in Texas, and she hopes to improve on her already impressive pace of 9.18 minutes per mile.