Authority Magazine interview with Robbye Kirkpatrick, published November 20, 2025, conducted by Eden Gold: In a November 2025 interview with Authority Magazine, Texas TransformED co-founder Robbye Kirkpatrick traced the path from commercial real estate to a Title I middle school classroom in Los Angeles and back to Texas, where she launched the organization with Ashley Cash. The conversation lays out the Leadership + Culture + Data framework behind the group’s agenda, along with proposals to separate reading and writing instruction, group students by academic level rather than age, teach logic through middle school debate, and offer five distinct paths to a high school diploma. It also explains the mechanics of the Million Word Miracle — structured oral reading at or above a student’s Lexile level, roughly twelve novels a year.
Education Revolution: Robbye Kirkpatrick On Innovative Approaches That Are Transforming Education
