Prologue: It’s May 12th, 2022. And I am tired. Emotionally drained. I don’t remember the last time I took a beer out of the fridge as a way to detox, which is what I did last night. I made some graduation leis on stream to do something mind-numbing. Today we’re revisiting pt. 1 of thisContinue reading “Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals pt. 3”
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Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals pt. 2
Prologue: This past month has been hell. And not because of the students. I don’t know what it is with teachers not knowing how to write emails or communicate in a professional manner. But it’s hella annoying that teachers do not understand how to act in an office/company setting. The last time I wrote, IContinue reading “Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals pt. 2”
Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals
Prologue: I’ve already made it very clear to my department that the direction of the master schedule will be based on the data from the Spring student course selection. This is not my decision, but instructions from the admin and counseling team. Makes sense, that’s a student-centered approach. Depending on the courses applied to willContinue reading “Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals”
Breakthrough San Francisco
I started my career in education with a non-profit organization known as Breakthrough. This nationwide organization believes that all young people should have access to quality education and a clear path to college. They provide support for students from 5th-12th grade. And the location I joined was at the SF Day School, just down theContinue reading “Breakthrough San Francisco”
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Prologue: I had planned to post this the week of my birthday. At least before the end of February, but I got sick after my trip to Seattle and Aya leaving. Luckily, I tested negative for COVID and didn’t get Aya sick either. But it’s more like a UTI turned bladder infection? My physician can’tContinue reading “28”
It’s been a long week
Prologue: I only intended to write once this week. And make a post about it. But this week was hell. I know there has been worse. Especially in January. But I think there was so much going on. I think this reflected the epitome of what normalizing work within a pandemic is like. It’s aContinue reading “It’s been a long week”
Shelter-in-Place Log #4
School has been closed since March 13th, 2020 and Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a Shelter-in-Place on March 17th, 2020. Despite other pandemics in recent decades (H1N1, SARS, Ebola, etc.) there hasn’t been a global pandemic or even state-wide shutdown during those times. And in accordance to SFUSD’s Continuity of Learning Protocol, all assignments at thisContinue reading “Shelter-in-Place Log #4”
Shelter-in-Place Log #3
March 25, 2020: Today the superintendent announced that six Bay Area school districts will extend the closure through May 1st and SFUSD being one of them. Like I mentioned in one of the previous logs— I am surprised and not surprised that they have extended the closure. I’m glad they did keeping in mind public safety, but now whatContinue reading “Shelter-in-Place Log #3”
Shelter-in-Place Log #2
Currently, SFUSD has put out what they define as the “Continuity of Learning” to address what [at least our district is doing, not so sure across the state] students could be doing and what teachers should be doing. Before the city-wide lockdown & shelter-in-place, I already anticipated that closure was upon us, especially with theContinue reading “Shelter-in-Place Log #2”
Shelter-in-Place Log #1
It’s been an interesting past few months for humanity and especially the past few weeks for California. Throughout January & February, more racially charged instances towards Asian Americans and Asians all over the world were springing up. At first, it was very distant, through Twitter or videos on Instagram. Then it turned into violence towardsContinue reading “Shelter-in-Place Log #1”
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