IDEA Frontier

The following year, she returned as an Assistant Principal of Instruction where she worked as a testing coordinator, a disciplinarian, managing big programs such as tutorials and intervention for 3 years. She developed into a strong instructional coach leading the English team to unprecedented state results. She is an experienced and successful teacher at heart, passionate about connecting families to the school, and approaches challenges in a logical systematic way to come up with solutions that benefit the entire school community.

Dora believes that lives change when parents partner with schools to navigate the educational roads and to build the expectation at an early age that their child WILL attend college. Dora’s work at IDEA has never just been a job, she works at IDEA because it is a personal mission to connect schools and families to achieve the mission of College For all students. She loves being a part of IDEA Frontier Academy family, and looks forward to working towards achieving new heights of success and excellence.

In 2015, Mrs. Flores joined IDEA Public Schools as a Principal in Residence at IDEA Brownsville College Prep before transitioning to IDEA Frontier College Prep in 2017. Mrs. Flores currently serves as the Mighty Charger Principal.

Mrs. Flores is passionate about providing individualized instructional to meet the needs of all learners and has led her team to close the gaps for students in special education. Her experience as a Rhodes Scholar in the Relay Graduate School Program has allowed her to mentor and coach teachers and leaders; building their capacity to close the achievement gap in the lower valley.

Mrs. Flores’ vision is to create a school culture that strategically plans to provide individualized instruction to meet the needs of all learners, prepare students with a strong college identity, and support our alum as they transition to post-secondary education. We know that by doing this our IDEA Frontier alum will continue to share our vision and give back to our community.

Once a charger, always a charger!!

After obtaining his Master’s in Intelligence from the University of Texas Pan-American, Luis joined IDEA as a 7th grade ELA teacher. His students were ranked 1st in the district in Reading & Writing for two years running before joining the admin team at IDEA Frontier as APO. This is his 5th year in the role.