This is my 10th year serving as the grateful principal of Early College High School on the Dallas College Brookhaven campus. Overall, I am starting my 41st year in education (20 years teaching, 21 years adminstration). Our transformative high school has a remarkable faculty and staff whose mission is to graduate globally-minded citizens that are competently and confidently prepared to complete a four year univeristy program and who can positively lead and democratically serve their local communities. The Associate degree of Science/Arts is free of charge to students. Our students are enrolled in a four-year A.V.I.D program focused on Reading, Writing, Collaboration, Inquiry, and Organization all within a small school environment which strengthens healthy teacher to student relations.