Lucila A. Garza
Lucila A. Garza has been an educator for
37 years. She is a certified teacher in Texas in elementary education with a Master's Degree in gifted education.
Her teaching experience ranges from kindergarten to eighth grade. She is certified in the areas of special education,
regular education, and gifted education and has worked in the specialized field of alternative education. She was
involved in creating a school within a school at the middle school level for over-aged, at-risk youths where she
worked as lead teacher for the three teachers involved in the program. She was the English/Language Arts teacher
for this special population. This spectrum of experience has given her first hand knowledge of children and the
relationships that must be built in order to motivate them to learn and be successful.
Founder of her own company, Mentoring Innovations, LLC, she is currently a training associate for the Center for Cognitive Coaching and a state trainer for the Texas Beginning Educator Support System (TxBESS), an initiative of the State Board for Educator Certification and the Texas Workforce Commission. Luci trains mentors who offer support to their districts in an effort to retain and recruit beginning teachers. She consults with districts to formalize mentoring or induction programs. Additionally, she trains Habits of Mind and Adaptive Schools.
Lucila A. Garza
11910 Brookwood Road
Austin, TX 78750
Telephone: 806–674–1513
E-mail: lucilag@mac.com
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