A Father\u27s Dream: Mi Hija Va Ser Maestra an Autoethnographic Study of the Cultural, Familial and Community Experiences that Informed an Instructional Leader

This study is an autoethnography which will identify major ethnographic influences that I, as a female Mexican American educational leader, feel have been significant in the course of my career in education. The study will focus on culture, family and community as factors which developed and engendered characteristics, behaviors and experiences that contributed to my development as an educator. These will be relayed through narratives, memoirs, organic artifacts and documents, lived experiences, pláticas, and other forms of text presented here as story, an acceptable autoethnographic method of data collection. I place myself in the center of these narratives in autoethnographic form, giving agency to critical self-reflection as a discipline in leadership effectiveness. Personal experiences growing up in a small Central Texas town and the formative years which I spent under the guidance and influence of my parents provided the foundation for this autoethnography