My name is Claudine and I am a special education service coordinator on the Sunset Ridge campus.  This is my first year at Sunset Ridge, my sixteenth year teaching K-8 and my twenty-seventh year teaching special education.  I have a BA.E. in special education with endorsements in early childhood and structured English immersion.  I also have a Masters Degree in counseling. 

I have had the opportunity to teach in many different models of special education from a learning center, to team teaching through inclusive practices and to a total inclusion school. 

I am married and have two children, a girl and a boy.  My daughter attends UNLV  on a swimming scholarship and my son attends NAU. I also have two cats and two guinea pigs that I consider family!

In my spare time, if I have any, I love to read, watch college football and play/research on the computer.

Besides being a teacher, I have had the adventure of being a parent of a child in special education as my daughter was identified earlier in her school years.  Even as a teacher trained in special education, this process was very scary.  I am here, not only to help your child, but to support you, the parent!

I truly believe that we are a TEAM working together to set your child up for academic success! 

Here's to a GREAT year!! 

 

Distance Learning Office Hours:

Monday through Thursday, 1-2 PM

*Due to privacy issues, please email me if you would like to Zoom.

claudine.tellez@dvusd.org