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Operation Underground Railroad: https://ourrescue.org/

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Call to action:

Student Mental Health Week Resources:

https://www.schoolcounselor-ca.org/smhw21professionaldevelopment

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https://www.komen.org/

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Topics of discussion in this episode: 

• Growing up in with a single mom in poverty
• Doing well in school with the mindset that he wanted a different lifestyle 
• Growing up in a crime-stricken neighborhood 
• Being a tight-knit community 
• Going to a school on the west side
• Being called a racist slur and his friends standing up for him
• Racial bias in grading and expectations
• Finding sports in middle school
• He remembers teachers and coach’s names that touched his life
• Splitting up his senior class
• How his experience influences how he works with families 
• Played basketball in college at Cal State San Bernardino 
• The importance of sports for engagement 
• Reflecting back on how hard it was for her mother 
• Talking back and being a teenager
• Reflecting on his mother - mental illness and being raised in the South
• Working at Stater Bros and how Bob Molina pushed him to do more
• Coaching and becoming a PE Teacher
• Becoming an assistant principal
• Standard discipline practices and reflecting on being true to your values 
• Interesting fashion choices
• Doing what is best for kids AND the adults who work with kids
• Kids with behave badly when they don’t feel safe
• Being scared to be a principal and receiving full support from his superintendent 
• Being collaborative with your staff
• Understanding all students
• Supporting all kids 
• Shifting mindsets and societal norms 
• Suspensions and changing behaviors 
• Kids who are engaged in sports
• His service in CIF and supporting cheerleading becoming a sport
• Boys and Girls Club

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https://www.bgca.org/

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Topics of discussion in this episode: 

• Growing up in a household with high expectations and a strong faith in God
• Finishing college quickly and getting married at a young age
• Tackling failure and challenges
• Supporting her husband going back to school to be a pastor while being a teacher and having young children
• Struggling with the mixed feelings of setting boundaries and balancing the expectations of being a public figure
• Finding the positive in something that you are experiencing as negative
• Finding your community of support
• Having a miscarriage and leaning on her faith to get her through it
• Introverts versus Extroverts
• Feeling the calling to lead a campus in a transition to using technology
• Transitioning to remote learning when schools shut down while supporting her campus
• Teachers communicating with families 
• Changing expectations and being flexible while setting boundaries 
• Transitioning to being a virtual teacher 
• The strong emotions of transitioning to something you didn’t expect or possibly want
• PIVOT !!!!
• Virtual teachers and students : WE SEE YOU, WE HEAR YOU and WE APPRECIATE YOU! 

Call to action:

Donate to: Guide Dogs for the Blind 

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Mentioned: Documentary “Pick of the Litter”

https://g.co/kgs/rWcrzs

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Topics of discussion in this episode: 

• The importance to stay grounded and have a circle of people you can be real with
• Her Cuban Dad migrated to this country and this instilled in her the importance of the American dream. 
• Her experience of how different education can be when you go to an all-girls school and her thoughts around gender differences in education 
• How she started out as a Math major in college and the barriers she faced which ultimately resulted in her changing her major 
• Her career as a teacher and how someone planted the seed with her and told her she should become an administrator
• She explains how being a Principal stretched her
• An open position in the Special Education department that really spoke to her
• Being a Mom of 5 kids in a blended family and a role model for them
• Having a supportive husband and being a supportive wife of a first responder
• Boundaries and mental health in her own life and with her staff
• Managing stress
• Positives that have come out of the pandemic
• General education and Special education to meet the needs of all students 
• Inclusion of students with disabilities BENEFITS ALL 
• ABC Hopes

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