Meet Your Counselor...
Greetings! My name is Aminda Morado Pena and I am your school counselor at Lee H. Means Elementary. This is my fifth year at Means Elementary and have greatly enjoyed every day of it! I went to elementary, middle school, and high school in Rio Hondo, Texas. I graduated from high school in 1998 and quickly began taking classes at Texas State Technica College (TSTC) here in Harlingen. After about one year, I transferred to Southwest Texas State Universtiy in San Marcos, Texas where I graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor's in Fine Arts. I was a case worker for Communities In Schools for a year and a half and then became a teacher for Harlingen CISD in 2005. I taught PreK, Kindergarten and then was the art teacher and cheer coach at Memorial Middle School until 2009. I received my Master's in Guidance and Counseling in 2010 and was the counselor at the Early College High School until getting to Means in 2011. I love doing what I do! Children are my passion and seeing them overcome obstacles and becoming successful in anything they do is my goal and hope for every student I meet.