
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

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

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

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

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Megan rodriguez
-Colleen Wilcox
teacher

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Giselle Olarinde
-Plutarch
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

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