Molly Flores (she/her)

Meaningful Places

Hometown Community

Tucson, AZ

Current Community

Seattle, WA

Abroad Communities

Granada, Spain

Mekenes, Morocco

Values

Racial Justice and Equality #BLM

Gender Justice and Equality, break down gender norms and binary

LGBTQ+ Acceptance and Equality #teachkidsacceptance

Climate change demands our immediate collective response

Education is the greatest tool against oppression

Kids are our future and we need to prepare them to face and solve the challenges previous generations are handing them.

Hobbies

Video Games

I play online games with my family and friends that live far away from me to stay in touch

I also play games with my partner

Reading

LOVE Science-Fiction

Book Club: part of a book club where we only read books written by female POC

Movement

Dance (was a ballerina for 15 years)

Yoga (since retiring the pointe shoes)

PLE

Work

ALMA (school LMS)

Google Classroom/G Suite

ClassDojo

Flipgrid

GroupMe

NAU

Diigo

G Suite

Prezi

Text to Voice Reader

Bibme

Personal

Twitter

Instagram

Tik Tok

Snapchat

Profession

Education

Undergrad at Seattle Pacific University

BA in Elementary Education

Certified in WA K-12 teacher

Last session in Graduate program at NAU

Soon to be M.Ed in Educational Technologies

Soon to be ISTE certified

Educator

2nd grade ELL teacher

3rd Grade classroom teacher

4th Grade classroom teacher

Relationships

Family

Two loving parents who have been married 26 years

Two younger brothers

Many aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Most still live in Tucson and Phoenix, AZ (think family Christmas 50+ people, family reunion is like 200+ people)

Friends

Still super close friends with my "Crew" from undergrad. We are all currently spread out across the country getting higher education. We stay in touch through visits, zoom hangouts, and online game nights

Partner

Currently live with my partner and our handful of a puppy corgi