Lourdes Viloria

Transcript And they can see their own growth. You know, that’s the other thing, you know, that’s kind of like going back to the axis access and mobility because they see themselves moving through their journey and everybody’s going to have an individual journey. You know, that’s the other important piece to this, to the […]

Transcript We haven’t. We’re going to launch it in the spring launch. Yes. It’s just getting started. I think that’ll be. Yes. I mean, we actually we had a difficult time getting it off the ground, to be honest, because we couldn’t decide on, you know what exactly how to evaluate how to and how

Transcript OK, well, yeah. Sure I can. I can actually thought it’s so new that I know that it has five area, four areas, five areas. We are looking at the candidates content knowledge, the candidate’s professional disposition. The social, emotional component, also the social justice, social justice, this for lack of a better word,

Transcript Texas is a very regimented state in terms of its certification exams. It really breaks my heart that they have to take, I think, six exams before they actually can be completely certified and go on to, you know, to a teaching job. And so where we train really to do is is inform

Transcript Now, I’m also in addition to that period here at once, I guess my journey to take the same international was in 2013. That’s when I made the transition from being a school principal to being a full time faculty member here at an international. Here I am, I this is my eighth year,

Transcript And so the school, of course, you know, going back to the accolades are based on data. I was we successfully had the school be recognized in the Texas education agency recognized twice because of our our scores, the scores of students said. And so and that just proves I mean, I don’t know

Transcript I was twelve years as a school principal while I was working full time as a school principal and sort of my my Ph.D. in education administration. I actually was turned down from Texas A&M International. I did apply here because they only had a curriculum and instruction program and I wanted education administration. So

Transcript I can say that I honestly didn’t have. I retained all my teachers based on the fact that I treated them as as individuals like. If you given the time for the school and if you need to go to an appointment, you can go, that’s fine. I work with you and that’s important,

Transcript So after after four years, my husband’s decided that he wanted to be an import export. So of course, we that’s what brought us back to Laredo here in Laredo. I wanted to let it go right, and that’s how we say it here. Not ever. I wanted to work in the school that

Transcript My name is Maria, Lourdes Viloria. I’m also a first generation college students. I am the oldest of six siblings. So I was considered as a pioneer in my family because I set the stage so that all my brothers and sisters were able to also have access to college and matriculation and completion