Carlotta Outley Brown is the principal of the illustrious Lora B. Peck Elementary School located on upper Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. She has been the principal of Peck for 13 years and an educator for 25 years. She has served in several capacities in HISD, just recently serving as Lead Principal, but she has also been Interim Principal, Instructional Coordinator, Dean, and Assistant Principal. Principal Brown followed in her mother’s footsteps, teaching first graders. She has kept her passion for teaching, sometimes going into the classrooms to teach as if she never left. As the principal, she quickly led, moved, and “turned” around the school to earn the impressive distinction and honor from the State of Texas as a “High” performing school and honors from the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School. In addition, Principal Brown received prestigious commendation as a Terrel H. Bell Recipient, being recognized as one of 5 top principals in the United States for turning around a school to be high achieving in three years and for her outstanding school leadership by the United States Department of Education.
In 2007, Principal Brown was charged with consolidating MacArthur Elementary school into Peck Elementary, which she successfully did in 3 months while the new Lora B. Peck Elementary was being built. Peck Elementary continues to successfully thrive under her leadership by earning numerous distinctions from the Texas Education Agency under the new accountability system.
Principal Brown continues to put children and family at the forefront in her personal, as well as professional life. She utilizes her time, talents, and resources to bless others, especially underserved children. She is known for shaping and molding them to become productive citizens in society, teaching them to give back to their community as they grow, gravitate through life, and prosper. Principal Brown is a true believer in servant leadership and service to others who are underserved and voiceless. Principal Brown invited HISD’s Homeless Department into Peck in 2007. This department services the entire district of children who are identified as “homeless,” which continues to be housed at Peck. During the transition to the new building on MLK Blvd., Principal Brown asked them to move with her school so that they would be centrally located to serve others who are in need of their services.
One of her proudest moments and esteemed accomplishments was when she and the department were featured on Channel 11 News last May, being interviewed by Mr. Len Cannon. After seeing this expose’ on television and for her heroic efforts of truly being inclusive of all, Principal Brown, her students, faculty and staff, and the entire school community were ecstatically surprised and awarded $100, 000.00 for Lora B. Peck Elementary, and she was personally given $10,000.00 for her family by Ms. Ellen DeGeneres of the Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 14, 2015. Ellen named her a “Hero Educator” on that memorable day. Principal Brown has used the $100,000.00 to purchase laptops and iPads
for all her students to use in their classes to further increase their instructional programs and achievement. Ellen continues to keep in contact with her on a regular basis.
Principal Brown is a native Houstonian. She has earned several degrees, being short of earning her Doctorate in Educational Leadership, for which she will be going back to complete in the fall semester. Principal Brown has been inducted into Order of Eastern Star, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Top Ladies of Distinction, Inc., Jack and Jill of America, Inc., and The Links, Incorporated, as well as other esteemed organizations. She, along with her husband are longtime members of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, and she is a member of the Alter Guild at WVUMC. She is the wife of the late Jesse Lee Brown, raising one precious child, Chanel Nicole and another little special one, CoCo Ri Brown. She also has a shiztzu that the family loves dearly, dotes on fervently, and cherishes to the highest degree. Principal Brown thanks God daily for her many, many blessings, loving what she does as not just her profession, but her passion. She is doing what God has deemed her to do in life, making her life worthwhile by living, helping, impacting, and blessing others in a positive and nurturing way.
Carlotta Outley Brown, M.Ed.
Principal – HISD
Lora B. Peck Elementary School
5001 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Houston, TX 77021-2711
713-845-7463
CBROWN9@houstonisd.org
www.houstonisd.org/peck
