Irving ISD’s Post

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I'm athletic coordinator, head football coach at Irvin High School, My twin brother, Trent Nickerson is the head principal at Lady Bird Johnson Middle School. My mom is a second grade teacher at Stipes Elementary School. And then my cousin Miss Stewart, Miss Natasha Stewart is the head principal at MacArthur High School. And so my mom and my brother were in education before I was in education. And so their influence is pulled me in the into education. I was always that mom that valued education. My mom valued education. And so she. Past that love on to me and I passed that on to my twins. Trent always wanted to be an education. Brent started out in the business program. They started here at MacArthur High School, but they both went to Texas Tech Trent always thought that he would be Superintendent of schools one day. I knew real young that I want to come back and I was specifically wanted to come back to Irving because a lot of teachers and coaches poured into me. So I wanted to make sure that I could come back and and do that. For other individuals and it's it's real neat that I can call my brother or you have to call my cousin or call my mom and just get to talk about things and they can give me good advice about how to proceed with different things. Family has just always been important and when you grow up. The holes with family members who are there to support you through the thick and thin, through the good and the bad. It's just, it just becomes a part of who you are. That's the essence of who we are. And now I get to be in meetings. I'll just like today I was at the superintendents meeting and Trent is in there as an administrator sharing that role with me. I was at a D EC meeting yesterday with rent. So I think it's really pretty cool to see how much they've grown up and have become men who are role models. And then their mom. I think she's a great example to people that it's never too late because she did what she needed to do as a mom and now she's working on her own career. Well, who else can tell you? You know what you're doing right, what you're doing wrong, keep you humbled in your family and just working with them. We know who they are. Professionally, but we know who they are away from education. We have that built-in support system. I love that I get to have an influence on the culture of a program. I get to have an influence on the kids in our community and the community that I grew up in. And, and I get to have a lasting oppression on the staff and the students at Urban High School. There's a lot of support here in Irving, guys, the whatever it is that you aspired to be, there are individuals who will help you along the way, just like as a young student growing up in Irving. Christy teachers and coaches impacted me and we get to do that on the daily basis. One of my favorite things obviously is working with the students every day because you get to get some tremendous experiences with them and build some amazing relationships. You even get to talk a little bit about your path to let them know. Just because we are professional standing in front of you today, that doesn't mean we don't come without a story. We all have a story and it's really important that we are sharing those stories with our kids to let them know that there's more to what they see in front of them today because it's not about how you start. It's about how you finish family time. Irving Pride.