Against All Odds
A Woman's Rise to Leadership
$47.47
- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
16 April 2026
Summary
They laughed when she said she wanted to lead. Then she turned around the schools everyone had written off.
Tameka Hyland grew up in the Deep South, where expectations for girls like her were quietly set low. She was raised by a grandmother with a sixth-grade education and a faith that never broke. She learned early that the hardest doubters aren’t always strangers. Sometimes they’re the people you grew up with.
When she returned home to lead a high school that had failed for …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896759911 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Tameka D. Hyland Ed D. |
| Publisher: | Fulton Books |
| Imprint: | Fulton Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 16 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Tameka D. Hyland Ed D.
Dr. Tameka D. Hyland is a Mississippi educator, school turnaround leader, speaker, and author. She has served as a teacher, principal, district trainer, and state-level consultant, and she was the first in her family to earn a doctorate.
As principal of Vicksburg High School, she led the school to its first-ever B rating and raised the graduation rate from 56 to 91 percent. The school also earned national Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School of Excellence recognition. Earlier, at Sherman Avenue Elementary, she produced some of the highest literacy growth in the state.
Dr. Hyland is the founder of the Hyland Academy of Excellence and Innovation, a nonprofit organization. She is also CEO of Teacher Leadership Academy, LLC and the Women’s Leadership and Learning Institute. She has presented for the American Association of School Administrators and the Mississippi Association of School Administrators.
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