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^SM 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
3409 Esperanza Crossing
Suite 7210
Austin, TX 78758

Telephone: 512-627-7859
E-mail: lucilag@mac.com

"Cognitive Coaching Seminars^®" is a registered trademark and "Cognitive Coaching^SM" is a servicemark owned by The Center for Cognitive Coaching^SM, P.O. Box 630128, Highlands Ranch, CO 80163.

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