Meet Our Staff

We do no great things, only small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa

Suzanne Garza,
Head of School

Allow the child to be authentic, to move to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.
-Magda Gerber

Alana Dias,
director of education

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
– Albert Einstein

Melissa Jones,
head of business & operations

Within the child lies the fate of the future.
-Maria Montessori

KAREN WEATHERS
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.
-T. Berry Brazelton

emma allison
education specialist

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X

Olivia Jones
school support specialist

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.
-Alexandra K. Trenfor

harley cantillo
Teacher

Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire.
-William Butler Yeats

jeSSICA HALTER
Teacher

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
– Scott Hayden

Sophia rodriguez
Teacher

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
-Mark Van Doren

steph solorio
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.
-Fred Rogers

Stephanie Montgomery
Teacher

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela

Mary ortiz
teacher

The things that make me different, are the things that make me, me.
-Piglet

Roxanna Kucewicz
teacher

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-Benjamin Franklin

Laura maldonado
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.
-Maria Montessori

deborah wells
Teacher

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

KAila zepeda
Teacher

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
-Brad Henry

heather alves
Teacher

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
-Kay Redfield Jamison

katie fuller
Teacher

Failing doesn’t give you a reason to give up, as long as you believe.
– Naruto Uzumaki

yenifer manzera
teacher

The wonder of teaching is watching caterpillars become butterflies.
-Unknown

Ellie overton
teacher

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.
-Fred Rogers

elizabeth Delamora
teacher

You always learn more from failure than success. Adversity is a great teacher.
-Linda Ronstadt

erika manzera
teacher

Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.
-Benjamin Franklin

madison christopher
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.
-Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

shannon haynes
teacher

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
-Socrates

Dorioenne killebrew
teacher

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
-Colleen Wilcox

Megan rodriguez
teacher

The child gives us a beautiful lesson-that in order to form and maintain our intelligence, we must use our hands.
-Maria Montessori

Lily barragan
teacher

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
-Fred Rogers

Jenna wilson
Teacher

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela

Kaylee Talamantes
Teacher