Meet Our Staff

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again." - Anne Frank in The Diary of a Young Girl

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes." -Thelonious Monk

"Hard work outweighs talent — every time.” - Kobe Bryant

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” - Plato

Mr. Carlos Martinez, Jr.,
Athletic Director

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“Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.” -LeBron James 

Ms. Erika Medina,
Dual Enrollment Counselor

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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein

Ms. Dawn Golonsky,
SDC Elementary

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“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”  - Ghandi

"One should never mistake kindness for weakness...for it is in the moments that we apply kindness that our strength is revealed." - Unknown

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are seeds. You can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds. - Dr. Seuss

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”  - Oscar Wilde

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi

"Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them." - Rita Pierson

"“If you weren’t ready, you wouldn’t have the opportunity" - Unknown

"“If you weren’t ready, you wouldn’t have the opportunity" - Unknown

Ms. Kersten Scanlon,
Speech

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“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dr. Paula Probst, Elementary Instrumental Music

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“It isn’t any accident that Beethoven lasts, and that Mozart lasts, and that Bach lasts.” - Robert Shaw

Mr. Maximillian
Verdugo, Elementary Chorus

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“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine." - Vera Nazarian

"The future comes from where we are now. The future won’t change until we look thoughtfully at our present. We have sufficient human capacity to think and reflect together, to care about one another, to act courageously, to reclaim the future." -Margaret Wheatley

Mr.  Christopher Blehm,
High School English

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“Brevity is the soul of wit.” - Shakespeare

Mr.  Jeremy Marchese,
High School History

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"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou

Dr. Peter Ibarita, 
High School Functional Academics

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"Write your story as it needs to be written.  Write it honestly and tell it as best you can." - Neil Gainman

Ms. Stephanie Gonzalez,
High School Math

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"The greatest glory in living is not in falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

Ms. Amaris Marino,
7th, 8th and 9th  ELA

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“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.” -Voltaire

Ms. Rosalind Mickels-Miller,

High School Math

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“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you." - John Bunyan

Mrs. Sandy Martinez,
7th and 8th Grade
History

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“You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.” Gusteau, Ratatouille

"Failure is the key to SUCCESS. Each mistake teaches us something." - Morihei Ueshiba

"Step so far outside your comfort zone, that you forget how to get back" - Unknown

Mr. Matthew Crane,
Middle School RSP

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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made, what's a sundial in the shade?" - Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Daniel Martinez,
High School RSP

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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart