Site Updates

I have added two things to my main blog page. The first is Google Street View. It is a view of my apartments. You can click on it and take a tour around my neighborhood. The second is a link to my ideology. It will gives you a breakdown of my values and how they relate to my actions. Check it out if you are interested! 

South LA to UC Santa Barbara

We had a great time at UC Santa Barbara! We checked out some classes, had a tour of the school with several current students, ate lunch, went to the admissions office for a presentation, went to the beach, and then all got jamba juice! All in all itwas a great trip! Thanks to everyone that participated!

It's Official

At the end of this year, I will stop teaching world history at my current school. This is only my third year of teaching, and it is very difficult to switch schools. I will be a founding teacher at one of the new Animo Locke schools. Locke High School is located about 5 mins further away from my house than my current school, thereby increasing my daily commute from 3 minutes to 8 minutes. On the real though, this was a very difficult decision. Two factors drove my decision: inadequate leadership at my current school, and the opportunity to teach a technology class with no standards. None at all! 

The new class will be a mix of technology, leadership, and ethnic studies. I will create the curriculum for it over the summer. This is where my real passion lies, and where I hope to have a greater impact on the youth than through world history. 

Greendot Schools (who I will heavily criticize later) took over Locke High School and will be converting it into six separate schools. Greendot definitely has flaws, but the quality of education will be better than it is right now, without a doubt. That is why I stay with them. 

The hardest part is facing the reality that I will be leaving my students. It has made this a very difficult decision.