Experience

Downey Unified School District

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• AP Capstone, AP Capstone CTE Advisor, Program Development // Warren High School

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Warren High School’s “Pick Your Passion” Program is now bringing students many diverse opportunities for inclusive, immersive, and impactful educational experience. AP Capstone provides students yet another opportunity to choose to follow those passions in ways that secures them not only the chance at AP credit for staying competitive in college entrance, but more importantly puts them in position to utilize important critical thinking skills that will make them assets in academic and career settings in their futures. AP Capstone allows students to design inquiry projects in areas of their own talents and interests, and create products reflecting their own deeper learning. Warren’s Research Program hopes to provide students a place to feature their work both in writing and in presentation, leading Warren to the forefront of student research at the secondary level, and providing a platform for a shared learning community of staff and students alike. AP Seminar and Research CTE Career Technical Education pathways provide students direct and practical skills, building bridges between high school and post-secondary education and career plans. In partnership with AP4CTE—a nonprofit providing open-source educational resources—Warren High School will join CTE programs and AP coursework for the advancement of dynamic skills for pathways students as part of the Pick Your Passion project. Doing so provides students equal access to high-level programs for career and college-readiness, putting students in the unique position to not only do the work of industries, but to innovate, collaborate, and problem-solve through critical thinking, research, and the design of products and systems which address real, emerging needs in today’s workplaces. Students will now be able to advance through pathways to completion while also receiving The College Board AP credits, allowing them to be competitive future career and college applicants. Show less



2 Degree Shift

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• AP4CTE Curriculum Designer, Consultant

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Livable Wage Jobs is a non-profit organization dedicated to compiling open-sources educational resources for schools, teachers, and programs whose mission is to give students practical skills for future employment. My current role is in research and development of AP Capstone curriculum with specific application to CTE (Career Technical Education) programs in K12 settings. Livable Wage Jobs is a non-profit organization dedicated to compiling open-sources educational resources for schools, teachers, and programs whose mission is to give students practical skills for future employment. My current role is in research and development of AP Capstone curriculum with specific application to CTE (Career Technical Education) programs in K12 settings.



American Philosophical Association

• Committee Member, Pre-college Instruction in Philosophy

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2022

  Facilitation of discussions of pre-college philosophy (specifically in public school education setting, alignment with Common Core standards); pedagogical approaches that are philosophically driven, as well as specific curriculum design of High School-level Philosophy coursework and design; facilitation of teachingHUB seminars at the divisional meetings of the APA, presentation and chairing Facilitation of discussions of pre-college philosophy (specifically in public school education setting, alignment with Common Core standards); pedagogical approaches that are philosophically driven, as well as specific curriculum design of High School-level Philosophy coursework and design; facilitation of teachingHUB seminars at the divisional meetings of the APA, presentation and chairing



Mira Costa High School

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• English/Philosophy Teacher, AP Capstone Program Advisor

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2022

  Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (UC-approved) Introduction with particular emphasis on categorical logic, syllogisms, and applications to reading and writing argumentation; also introduces aspects of formal logic, such as truth tables and truth trees, with the express purpose of analyzing complex academic research. AP Capstone, 2017-2022 AP Seminar (Program Year 1, Grade 11): special topics course emphasizing cross-curricular, inter-disciplinary discussion, emphasis on student’s own academic interests; skill focus—research accumulation and evaluation source credibility and authority, inquiry building and topic exploration, writing organization, academic writing conventions 2021-2022: The Human Situation 2020-2021: Environmental Philosophy 2019-2020: Social and Restorative Justice 2018-2019: Applied Ethics in the 21st Century 2017-2018: Disagreement and Partisanship AP Research (Program Year 2, Grade 12): focus on research and analytic skills, critical thinking, and inter-disciplinary approach; student-centered one-on-one research project built around individual inquiry and course interests, testing and methodology, recursive practices, and college readiness with guidance of advisors and expert mentorship Philosophy in Literature, 2015–2022 Content: Philosophy of meaning through Western literary traditions; themes cover meaning as external Truth and Reality, meaning through Inwardness, and Holistic Meaning and Dasein and the limitations of language; also covers nature of identity, belief, choice, and living American Literature, 2012–2022 Early and modern American literature in conjunction with major political, social, philosophical movements of American History; major focus on what it means to be a Person—as well as a ‘Good’ Person—in America, movement of definition of citizenship and productivity Previous Courses: --English 9 CP [2013 - 2017] --Student Academic Support [2012 - 2015] Show less



Downey Unified School District

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Substitute Teacher

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

  all grades, levels, subjects

• Temporary Contract Teacher

  • Sep 2010 - Jun 2011

  English 10, 12 (P)