Sharon Goodman

Educator | Administrator

Black and white headshot of Sharon Goodman, Class of 1967

Class of 1967 | Inducted 2026

In 1953, Sharon Stubbs Goodman began her education in Corsicana, Texas. She attended Lee Elementary, Drane Junior High, and received her diploma from Corsicana High School (CHS) in 1965. She graduated with an associate degree from Navarro Junior College in 1967 and transferred to Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) and Tarleton State University where she graduated in 1969 with a bachelor of science degree. In 1969, she returned to Lee Elementary to teach sixth grade.

Sharon and her husband, Ray Goodman, met at Navarro in 1965, then earned their master of Education Mid-Management Administrator and Supervisor certificates at SFA. Ray taught and coached football and baseball at CHS while Sharon continued to teach at Lee Elementary. Mrs. Goodman has always chosen to be active: band, twirl, drum major, piano, dance, speech, and Sr. Coronation Duchess at CHS. At Navarro, she was Head Cheerleader, Football Sweetheart, 1st Runner-Up Homecoming Court, Student Senate, Beanie Queen, Sophomore Favorite, Las Amigas, Curtain Club, Delta Psi Omega, Who’s Who, Baptist Student Union, Miss NJC, and 1965 – 1966 Institutional Award for School Spirit, all while making Navarro’s Dean’s List each semester.

Her professional career has been honed out at Corsicana ISD as an elementary, middle school, and Gifted and Talented teacher. She wrote curriculum, taught Speech, Music, Literature, and Grammar, was an in-service facilitator and presenter, a supervisor, and she mentored new hires. 

In 1999, Sharon Goodman decided to go into Mid- Management Administration and served as an administrator, assistant principal, curriculum facilitator, Language Proficiency Assessment Committee facilitator, CHS librarian overseer, and other assignments. She retired from CISD in 2020.

In “retirement,” Sharon became a professional volunteer: Special Education admission, review, and dismissal surrogate, Board President of the Navarro College Alumni Association, President of Friends of the Library, a Corsicana Ambassador,  Board President of the Warehouse Living Arts Center, Board Member of the Navarro Council of the Arts, and Board Secretary of the Corsicana Preservation Foundation.

While still engaged in all of these, a door opened for her to do what she loves best: inspire and help students to discover who they can be and what they can do as the Navarro College Foundation Coordinator of Scholarships and Alumni Programs. Like Charles Martin’s quote in The Keeper, she believes “Find out what people are good at, and let them do more of it."