{"id":3049,"date":"2018-02-02T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2018-04-04T10:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:53:19","slug":"welcome-ms-imelda-cortez-returning-the-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/welcome-ms-imelda-cortez-returning-the-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Ms. Imelda Cortez: \u2018Returning The Favor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Celestina Marinez<\/p>\n

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Imelda Cortez (Black Shirt) helping Aurora Montoya.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former Pueblo student Ms. Imelda G. Cortez has returned to Pueblo to teach junior and senior English. As a 2009 high school graduate, Cortez began her collegiate career at the University of Arizona where she earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in Mexican-American studies; later, she earned a Master\u2019s degree in higher education.<\/p>\n

Cortez explained that she decided to become a teacher while attending middle school. After attending Pueblo and graduating eight years ago in 2009, she definitely knew that she wanted to become a Warrior alumni.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s [returning to Pueblo is] really like coming home,\u201d Cortez said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m returning the favor.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she hopes that all of her students will pass her class and earn their language arts credits in order to graduate from high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to admit that I truly like all of my students this school year, and I can honestly say that I don\u2019t have one bad class,\u201d Cortez said.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean that Cortez doesn\u2019t have her fair share of teacher challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding content that is appealing to all students can be challenging,\u201d she said. \u201cMost of my students\u2014not all\u2014don\u2019t seem to be interested in anything [at this time of the school year]. This makes teaching harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that she has also learned that that treating students with dignity and respect is key to having a good relationship with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents reciprocate those actions [dignity and respect] with their teachers,\u201d Cortez said. \u201cI have also learned that it\u2019s best to be as transparent as you can with students as opposed to making things up. One of my classroom agreements is: no one knows everything, but together we know a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cortez also helps out with the \u201cIAMME\u201d Club\u2014providing support and resources for what the students want to do for the club and school.<\/p>\n

One of Cortez\u2019 current students, senior Riana Lara, said, \u201cI love being in Ms. Cortez\u2019 English class because I\u2019m able to speak my opinion and how she motivates and engages her students to complete all of the great activities that she assigns.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Celestina Marinez Former Pueblo student Ms. Imelda G. Cortez has returned to Pueblo to teach junior and senior English. As a 2009 high school graduate, Cortez began her collegiate career at the University of Arizona where she earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in Mexican-American studies; later, she earned a Master\u2019s degree in higher education. Cortez … Continue reading Welcome, Ms. Imelda Cortez: \u2018Returning The Favor\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,128,208],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-Nb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}