Marla Retano

Lived in LT community with my family for over 25 yrs; taught in LTISD (at LTE 💖) for 14; love teaching reading and writing 📚✍️❣️; so excited to be at LTMS!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

What's better than books & hot breadsticks! Brainchild of @LT_TheGoldenLaw--wildly successful @LakeTravisMS 7th Gr Book Cafe! Students shared bios, autobios & memoirs they read. One student-"That wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be." That's a WIN! It was fabulous!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

Thank you and your lederhosen, Chris Markley, @GermanTexans for an incredibly informative talk today. Filled in many gaps about German immigration to Texas and so much more! @LakeTravisMS ESL appreciated this visit!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

Incredible @LakeTravisMS students and the beautiful sounds of great 7th grade ELA collaboration!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

@LakeTravisMS After meeting with the other two 7th grade ELA teachers today, can't wait to start and work with these two stellar professionals--Meg & Jessie!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

Such an honor to gather/plan with the rest of @LakeTravisMS 7th Grade ELA today! So excited to meet and serve the LTMS students! Thanks so much, @JodieVillemaire, @tarabanton313, and @DanaKSchrader!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning Where else could you meet Laura Bush, Sheryl Swoops, Davy Crockett, a quinceanera & others except at a 4th Grade wax museum! Thanks, LTE teachers, for bringing your students to listen to Texas history live!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#LTELOVESLEARNING @CityofLakeway Thank you, Mike Boston, for your service and for teaching LTE 4th grade about the Spirit of Freedom Monument!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning @CityofLakeway Thank you so much Vickie Taylor, Julie Boyd, Kay Andrews, & Dale Norton Lakeway Heritage Center for sharing the NASA exhibit with our 4th graders! So exciting!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#LTEloveslearning @ltisdschools @LTEF is so appreciated! Thank you so much!!!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#LTEloveslearning WOW! More than we could ever have hoped for in a visit this morning about Asian Texan culture from Santanu Rahman & Ayshea Khan @aarcatx! 4th gr students learned so much about TX Asian immigrants. Looking forward to a field trip to the Asian Amer Resource Ctr!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#LTEloveslearning Thank you so much Corinne & Sierra @aplusfcu Bee Cave for an informative and interesting after-school field trip for our @LTE4thgrade students. Great to learn about personal financial literacy first hand!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning Any day is a beautiful day to watch my 4th grade students play ball!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning Discovering that we are a diverse class of 4th graders as verified by interviewing our oldest living relative, and we are ALL Texans! Thank you @HBMSMiddleSchool students for helping with this map!!!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

@frankhousera1 @TeachRemore Thank you @teachremore for allowing the Roadrunners to share what they're doing with you. They were so happy to do that!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

@astronomicalapp A 4th grade student is researching dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford. We need info about her ancestry. Do you know what her country of origin is?

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

@Jamieinatx I miss you too!

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning Excitedly anticipating a visit from an expert about Czech immigration this morning. If you see Carol Filer in the hallway in her kroj (pronounced kroy), please say hello. Carol and her mother established the Czech museum in West, Texas. Stay tuned...

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning Fabulous expert, Carol Filer, shared insight, historical documents, and personal stories about Czech immigration to Texas! Sorry, we already ate all the kolaches.

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

#lteloveslearning Students making a great connection to Texas immigration by working in the knot tying station. How would a long-ago Texas immigrant use one of these knots?

[Marla Retano @mkretano]

@DrKillgrove @SkypeScientist #lteloveslearning @frankhousera1 4th graders learned so much about Roman Empire archeological finds from @DrKillgrove this morning. The students were abuzz about it all day. Thanks so much @DrKillgrove & @skypescientist!