Dr. Rudy Mendoza

Best way(s) to contact me:  email: rudy.mendoza@chisd.net

Best time to contact me: 8:00-4:00

What Parents Need to Know:

I am a servant - collaborative leader. In the age of post - Covid quarantines, service to others is needed more than ever. Through intentional collaboration with a mentality of seeking to understand, I believe we can provide an exceptional learning environment for EVERY scholar in a spirit of excellence with a mindset of continual academic and social progression.   

Responsibilities:  

A few responsibilities that I have been charged with include developing and refining our Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) team. The PBIS team will be responsible for ensuring that we are meeting the needs of EVERY scholar both in terms of academics and social emotional levels. Additionally, the PBIS team will strive to ensure our teachers and staff are serving in an ideal professional learning environment. Our goal is to transform Bessie Coleman into a Premier Model Middle School.    Additionally, I will serve as both a mentor and coach to our professional instructional leaders ensuring support of our distinguished teachers in developing and refining research-based instructional practices that focus on differentiation so that we are effective in meeting the needs of EVERY scholar  - meeting each learner where he/she is at and ensuring that each child progresses successfully.   

About Me:

This past February, my eternal companion (Theresa) and I celebrated 30 years of marriage. We have been blessed with four children (3 daughters and 1 son). We additionally have three grand babies (2 boys and 1 girl).

A proud native Texan with over 20 years in education. I served as a missionary for my church in Costa Rica, Central America for several years after I graduated from High School. I earned my Bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University in Latin American Studies. After entering public education as an elementary bilingual teacher, I completed my Masters at the University of Texas at Arlington in Education Administration and Public Policy. Serving as a transformative principal leader in turning around a perennial low performing Elementary school in Dallas into a premier model elementary school, I was extended the opportunity to apply to the University of Texas at Austin in Education Administration where I obtained my Doctorate in Education Administration.   

I am a published author. Goodbye Miss Maisie is an inspirational story that answers the question - why teach? In a time where stress, anxiety, and uncertainty prevail, Goodby Miss Maisie was written to remind us of the one teacher who truly made a positive impact in our lives. Goodbye Miss Maisie captures the essence of positive teacher-student relations and the life-long impact we as educators can make for the future of the students we serve now.     

Tashara Tuck

Years at Cedar Hill ISD:  16
Years in Education: 22
Best way(s) to contact me:  (email) tashara.tuck@chisd.net
Best time to contact me: 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Phone: 972-293-4505 x 8321

Email: tashara.tuck@chisd.net

The Tuck Rule – Get the Job Done

A memorable play transpired at a snow-covered NFL playoff game in Foxborough, Massachusetts, in January 2002. Tom Brady was able to continue his quest for a Super Bowl, when the NFL’s “Tuck Rule” overruled what appeared, to people outside of New England, to be a fumble.

A few years prior and nearly 1,800 miles away, another “Tuck Rule” was being established in Dallas – one that was much clearer and not controversial in the least.

“Get the job done!” is the Tuck Rule. When she initially interviewed in Cedar Hill in 2007, she said ‘there are 99 ways to get the job done.  Number #1 is to get the job done. Number #2 is to forget the other 98 ways.”

The Love of Teaching

Tuck began her education career at T.W. Browne Middle School (DISD) in 1999 after working in the healthcare field for several years. She fell in love with teaching during her first day on the job.  With a major in biology, Tuck spent many years “bringing science to life” for 8th graders. After teaching 8th grade science, mentoring new teachers and starting an evening school program, she decided to come to Cedar in 2007.  

Recognizing that educators create all the other professionals, Tuck believes in maintaining high expectations and providing a solid foundation for all scholars to be successful.  She states, “being an educator is not easy, but it is definitely rewarding.  Seeing former students who are now adults, and productive citizens of our community, is far more rewarding than any paycheck.”

Both Sides of Beltline

Ms. Tuck has had the opportunity to work at both Cedar Hill middle schools twice, which gives her plenty to cheer about with each CHHS graduating class.  She began her administrative work as an Assistant Principal at Permenter from 2007- 2012 and then became Principal of Joe Wilson Intermediate from 2012 - 2015.  After the closing of Joe Wilson, she moved to Bessie Coleman from 2015 – 2018 as Assistant Principal.  In 2018, she returned to her Permenter family for an additional four years. She is now back home, at BCMS, and services scholars (Alpha M-Z), is the Campus Test Coordinator, and writes the campus handbook.