{"id":3383,"date":"2023-04-13T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:26:32","slug":"get-to-know-maricela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/get-to-know-maricela\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know Maricela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maricela Becerra<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Part-time LD Specialist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Past Education highlights: <\/strong>High School drop out who attended community college and then transferred to UCLA. Went on to Sac State where I received my M.A. and certificates in adult learning disabilities, ASL, dyslexia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Education highlights:<\/strong> About to finish my first year in my Education for Social Justice Phd program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past Professional Experience Highlights: <\/strong>Tenured Bilingual (Spanish) Learning Disabilities Specialist of almost 11 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorite Quote: <\/strong>The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy<\/q> \u2015 bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What motivates me in the work of building accessible learning and spaces for interaction for students: <\/strong>The equity in the services I provide and how services really do transform lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proudest moment or accomplishment at the DRC:<\/strong> I got my Palomar computer programs to work most of the time lol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palomar Professor who inspires me and why: <\/strong>The only professor I know at Palomar is Leigh Ann, and she is an Energizer Bunny doing it all with a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palomar Staff who inspires me and why: <\/strong>In my limited time here, I think there is not one person who inspires me, but I do see how hard the staff and faculty work for their students and that is really inspiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I most love about the DRC: <\/strong>That the people are nice! I love the humor that is shared in the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is one thing I do that the DRC:<\/strong> I believe in my students. I believe they can reach whatever goal they have set up for themselves, at times despite what their assessment scores reveal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I love most about Palomar: <\/strong>How many services there are for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing I have learned over the pandemic: <\/strong>That our students mental health was really affected, and services were deeply needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example of a student who changed my perspective about disability: <\/strong>Any student who achieves higher than their ability is a rockstar to me. It does not make sense why they are able to push through the ability but they do so the only explanation is that they are amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is key to creating community at Palomar: <\/strong>Communicating often with other people, being kind, and laughing together often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Person with a disability who expanded\/shaped my mindset and daily work and why: <\/strong>All my students. My students are in the heart of what I do and why I do it. Their stories change the narrative of what we know and the services we offer — different perspectives will help evolve our practices as educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does a campus or world built with UDL at the forefront look like: <\/strong>It will highlight the vision we have for our students and fortify them as scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something else about me: <\/strong>I\u2019m really happy to be at Palomar serving students, they are pretty awesome \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maricela Becerra Part-time LD Specialist Past Education highlights: High School drop out who attended community college and then transferred to UCLA. Went on to Sac State where I received my… Continue Reading Get to know Maricela<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drc-faculty-staff-spotlight"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg2IzD-Sz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14729,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/14729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/drc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}