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Deborah Tait Has Decades Growing Students and Teachers in Poway

Prime Poway Woman No. 31 also has helped with Meals-on-Wheels and Battered Women's Shelter.

Patch ends Women’s History Month with a 26-year resident who has dedicated her life to the school district.

Deborah Tait has taught for the Poway Unified School District for 26 years.

Tait, who started with the Santee School District, began working with PUSD in 1987. She’s taught third-, fourth- and fifth-graders over the course of her career and has trained 14 student teachers.

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She’s also done community service with groups like Meals-on-Wheels and the Battered Women’s Shelter, among others.

“My favorite project was coordinating the making of 120 Christmas stockings for Marines while in Iraq, joining the efforts of my students and the Quilters Guild to complete this task. 

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“I have been an active member of the PTA as a parent and teacher serving and supporting their many projects over my 26 years.”

She said she is most proud of the work she’s done with her students.

“My students’ parents feel strongly that my personality and my class environment provides a very stable place in which their child can grow and achieve, equal to their peers,” she said.

Tait takes inspiration from Jean Snow, who teaches art at Garden Road Elementary School.

Snow “is an amazing leader on campus and within the community, providing art shows and art instruction to students at many different levels,” she said.

What does Women’s History Month mean to you?

“Women’s History Month honors individuals who see a need and provide solutions, making a change—women who have the ability to share their talents and ability to bring people together, to help in the community, to help aide others who need emotional of physical support and to improve the lives of others.”


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