#6. Becoming a Committed Opportunity Culture® School

Principal Susan Hendricks works with a student at Ross Elementary in Odessa, Texas.

September 7, 2022

Susan Hendricks was the principal of Ross Elementary in Ector County, Texas, before becoming the district’s director of leadership in August. Under her leadership, Ross Elementary received high ratings on the annual, anonymous survey given to Opportunity Culture® educators. When we spoke with Hendricks earlier this year, she credited that success to having structures in place that the whole school understands and committing to the belief that the Opportunity Culture® initiative is “who you are.”

Becoming a Committed Opportunity Culture® School: Susan Hendricks

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