Dr. Moreno, the founding principal of Las Americas Newcomer School in Houston, TX, is an internationally and nationally recognized expert with over 30 years of experience in education. She assists administrators, teachers, and directors in enhancing their support for immigrant and refugee students. Her focus includes examining school-wide systems, accountability, leadership training, language acquisition, and the social-emotional aspects of learning for immigrant students.Dr. Moreno has traveled the world, visiting refugee camps in Uganda, schools in Kenya and Israel, and various countries in Central America, Cuba, and Tanzania, to understand the challenges faced by newly arrived students.She earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX. Dr. Moreno is the recipient of the 2022 TIME Top 10 Innovative Teacher Award and the World Affairs Council - Houston Global Leaders of Influence. She is also a published author, speaker, national panelist, and mother of two.
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Hello from Wisdom and Productivity. I am here checking the features of Riverside.fm. Recently I switched from Streamyard to Riverside. Streamyard went from $25 to $45
From one day to the other and you know this podcasting thing for me is for fun so I that's prohibited for me so I am checking this new platform to see how it works to see if it's something that I would like to switch on and so I'm trying the features something funny that happened today I took my family through the drive-through of
Starbucks and the person selling the coffee saw my tattoo and said, hey, is that from the 90s? My dad has one on his shoulder. And yeah, my tattoo, I guess, is from the 90s. So basically, he called me all to my face. I thought it was hilarious. But life is what you make of it. So.
Let's see, this is my two minute recording of Riverside. Let's see how it works and where wisdom and productivity takes me to. Finally, I'm excited to share that on this week at some point, I'm gonna sit down in a two to three hour interview with Dr. Carlos Azcoitia. We're going to do like a biography of his professional life.
And I hope that you tune in and learn from one of the luminaries of the great city of Chicago. So that's it for today. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend. This is Wisdom and Productivity. Peace and calm.
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Bienvenido a la sabiduría y la productividad, el podcast del Dr. Efrain Martínez
Soy un director escolar en búsqueda de la sabiduría y he encontrado que la productividad es una gran herramienta para llegar al éxito.
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Questions for the show
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