Meet Aisha Atkinson, 2023 Texas Mother of the Year®
Aisha Christa Atkinson is an elementary instructional coach in the Greater Houston area. Valedictorian of her graduating class, Atkinson earned an undergraduate degree in secondary English education from the University of Mount Olive in 2013. In 2020, she graduated from Texas A&M International University with a master’s degree in educational administration. A member of the Texas Council for Teachers of English Language Arts’ 2022-2024 Rising Leader cohort, committee chair for the Special Education Parent Advisory Committee of Fort Bend Independent School District, and a contributing writer for Education Week, the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s Edutopia, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Teacher2Teacher and Principal Project, Atkinson advocates and leads with the inclusivity and representation of multilingual and neurodivergent learners at the forefront.