A big thank you to Trent, owner of Chupacabra Taproom, for his continued support as he votes YES for Mesa schools! If you want your small business to be featured, post a picture showing your #MesaPublicSchools spirit and use the tag #YesforMesaSchools📸

I took my favorite teenager to Peter Piper Pizza for a Mendoza PTO fundraiser night earlier this week. #TeamPAWS

I had an amazing professional conversation with my 1st Grade Team about spelling, phonics, and reading this week. #TeamPAWS

What is the Mesa Public Schools budget increase? What could the increase do for Mesa #publicschools? Get the facts and vote #YesforMesaSchools! youtu.be/oqXHgoe0ufQ

“She says, ‘I love your mistakes. It’s okay to make mistakes. By mistake, you can learn more.’” Through delayed grading, these students gain confidence in the learning process.

I love this insight so much. I am an adoptive mom that has been forever changed by lessons motherhood has taught me. On Being a Dad georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/… via George Couros

#ThoughtForTheDay. Leadership is not how you behave or respond when you know what to do. It’s how you behave or respond when you don’t know what to do. #Culturize #LiveYourExcellence

When I deliberately unplug from screens, social media, audio input and other people's ideas for periods of time during my day, I find I am better at finding creative solutions to challenges and more productive at completing tasks following the periods of downtime.

Got to hang in the Mendoza courtyard for lunch today for a PAWS reward. A dance party broke out. #TeamPAWS #PBIS

❤️ this one... George Couros is always teaching me

"I hate TPT almost as much as Pinterest. We have an epidemic of kids doing work below their grade level and they are getting them from TPT" Dr. Sonny Magana

@"Does Gender Impact Leadership Success?" linkedin.com/pulse/does-gen… on LinkedIn

Trunk or Treat fun at Mendoza!! #TeamPAWS

What an honor to be with my family and principal in a room full of Outatanding Educators serving Mesa Public Schools! Awesome evening at the Oriental Masonic Lodge of Mesa. #TeamPAWS #MendozaPUPS

kqed.org/mindshift/4304…

Choosing to receive positive, then choosing to pass it on.

The Agony of Learning & The Grand Canyon of What I Need to Learn - Bright Morning brightmorningteam.com/2020/02/the-gr…

There will be no high stakes testing this year, and yet all over America educators have continued to teach and inspire their students online. I hope the powers that be realize we do what we do because we love children and not because a test is held over our heads.

Advice to teachers - take the pressure off yourself, with school closed don’t try to replicate the school day from your computer at home! It’s amazing what we have achieved and accomplished to date!

How to Keep Your Restorative Justice Program from Failing ascd.org/el/articles/ho… via ASCD