As a teacher leader, I am always on the lookout for innovative methods and motivation to keep me from becoming antiquated as a leader. During our second year back after teaching remotely on Zoom and still dealing with...
I hate meetings. This is not a secret; I’m always happy to share my feelings on the drain that meetings affect upon me. The torture of sitting and listening after a long day. The four o’clock fog. The...
It was mid-afternoon, about 15 minutes into our Instructional Leadership Team meeting at one of our partner schools. When it was the next teacher leader’s turn to be our Public Learner, about one...
This summer Oakland Unified School District’s Expanded Learning Office brought together Site Coordinators and Agency Directors for their annual Summer Institute. This year’s theme is “Tending our Roots: Cultivating Joy.” Lead by Learning supported the OUSD Expanded Learning...
As a high school assistant principal, I work to understand student issues I am working on through Dr. Rochelle Gutierrez’s notion of windows and mirrors. Dr. Gutierrez defines a window as students being...
As an English Language Development teacher, I want to empower students to understand how English works. In service of this goal, my students and I embarked on a year-long prefix-based vocabulary study to increase their Tier...
It was a cycle I had been through before; choose focal students and watch them slip like water through my fingers. In a school district that has become predominantly White in recent years, I felt it...
In the fall of 2021, I was appointed to my first district-level position as a Director of Secondary Education. After fourteen years of experience as a site administrator; seven years as a high school assistant principal and seven...
