Meet Our Staff
We do no great things, only small things with great love.
Suzanne Garza,
-Mother Teresa
Head of School
Allow the child to be authentic, to move to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.
Alana Dias,
-Magda Gerber
director of education
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Melissa Jones,
– Albert Einstein
head of business & operations
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
KAREN WEATHERS
-Maria Montessori
facilities & Classroom SUPPORT
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them – all of these further a child’s brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.
emma allison
-T. Berry Brazelton
education specialist
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Olivia Jones
-Malcolm X
school support specialist
The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
harley cantillo
-Alexandra K. Trenfor
Teacher
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
jennifer bird
-Alfred Mercier
Teacher
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Sophia rodriguez
– Scott Hayden
Teacher
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
steph solorio
-Mark Van Doren
teacher
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Stephanie Montgomery
-Fred Rogers
Teacher
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Mary ortiz
-Nelson Mandela
teacher
The things that make me different, are the things that make me, me.
Roxanna Kucewicz
-Piglet
teacher
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Laura maldonado
-Benjamin Franklin
teacher
Let the children be free; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water.
deborah wells
-Maria Montessori
Teacher
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
KAila zepeda
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Teacher
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
katie fuller
-Kay Redfield Jamison
Teacher
Failing doesn’t give you a reason to give up, as long as you believe.
yenifer manzera
– Naruto Uzumaki
teacher
The wonder of teaching is watching caterpillars become butterflies.
Ellie overton
-Unknown
teacher
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.
elizabeth Delamora
-Fred Rogers
teacher
You always learn more from failure than success. Adversity is a great teacher.
erika manzera
-Linda Ronstadt
teacher
Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.
madison christopher
-Benjamin Franklin
teacher
Teaching plants a seed that grows forever in our friends’ hearts here.
Alexis Ortiz
-Alexis Ortiz
teacher
A Good teacher is like a candle it consumes itself to light the way for others.
shannon haynes
-Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
teacher
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Dorioenne killebrew
-Socrates
teacher
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Megan rodriguez
-Colleen Wilcox
teacher
The child gives us a beautiful lesson-that in order to form and maintain our intelligence, we must use our hands.
Lily barragan
-Maria Montessori
teacher
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Jenna wilson
-Fred Rogers
Teacher
Give belonging: may we choose to be the ones who make space at the table for others.
estephanie mendoza-reyes
-Morgan Harper
Teacher