Posted
January 17, 2018,
4:30 PM.
Updated
January 28, 2020,
1:40 PM.
Pepsi and the APS Education Foundation recognize some of our outstanding teachers.
Denise Garcia is the Pepsi/APS Education Foundation’s Teacher of the Month for January. Pepsi and the APS Education Foundation have partnered for the past eight years to recognize a few of the district’s outstanding teachers for their contributions to the classroom, school, and community. In their second year, Flying Star Café is recognizing our teachers by donating a gift card.
The Foundation randomly selects one APS school each month, and that school’s principal or staff chooses a teacher to be honored. The teacher receives a $100 check from Pepsi, a $50 gift card from Flying Star Café and acknowledgment on the APS website, Facebook page and electronic billboards.
They receive a small token of appreciation but represent the many outstanding teachers in Albuquerque Public Schools.
Meet Denise Garcia:
Transcript
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So miss Garcia has been in the district
for a number of years, she's been back at
Van Buren for approximately five plus
years. She is a Van Buren, former Van
Buren student so it's always nice to
have alumni come back and want to give
back to the community that they grew up
in. Actually I'm a Van Buren alumni, so
when I found out there was an opening at
Van Buren, I like jumped all over it. I'm
like I got to be back, you know at my
school. I think the passion that keeps me
going is their minds are fresh, I
want young vibrant exciting people to be
ready for the next step in their life
and that might be the one teacher, the
several teacher that they come to see
every day and hopefully they also
remember some of the stuff that I'm
trying to teach them. She's willing to
give up time on the weekends to
participate in various projects that Van
Buren is taking part in, I mean I just
can't say enough good things about who
she is as a teacher and as a person.
she makes it fun, so we get to color and
cut out, she makes it so much fun. Well
the first thing I always say is grow
your brain every day every chance you
get.
Turn something negative into a positive
for sure and that I really cared about
each and every one of them.
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