General Information

First Name

Margarita E.

Last Name

Garza Salinas

Nickname

Margarita

Work Experience

Job Title

Career Pathways Master Mentor, Enrichment DL Teacher, Team Leader, Action Base Learning Coach

Company

HISD

Date Started

14/07/2016

Biography

Biography

My latest job was working at Durham ES, as a Career Pathways Master Mentor, DL Teacher, and ABL coach. With over 25 years of experience.  I have had the opportunity to work, as an educator,  in multiple countries and applied multiple teaching methods. I worked in Mexico for the American School Foundation, as well as, for the American Institute of Monterrey, St. Joseph’s Early childhood education as a Montessori teacher in Halifax, NS, and volunteered as a Montessori teacher in Thailand, I also worked for ALIEF ISD as a 4th grade and kindergarten bilingual teacher, Math Interventionist for all grade levels, and kinder and 2nd Grade Dual-Language teacher. 

During that time I collaborated with two other members of the Dual Language program to restructure the District’s Literacy Pacing Guides for Dual-Language. I also worked for HISD as a bilingual teacher, team leader, Sunshine & SEL committee, PTA liaison, IB & Dual-Language committee member, Campus Technology Administrator, TECH support for staff, students, and parents, Career Pathways Bilingual Literacy Specialist, and Career Pathways Technolgy Specialist for Durham Elementary, where I had the opportunity to work with multiple programs such as R36O, Ellevetion, IXL, iStation, Neardpod, peardeck, ITs learning, and many others, at the same time acting as a coach offering professional developments where students, staff, and community participate and learn how to manage the new face-to-face and virtual implementations.

I consider myself a team player, a hard-working, experienced, leader, and an innovative, creative person who enjoys working with people.