I value community and parental involvement at every level and encourage you to partner with us to give every child the most powerful and joyous learning experience possible. It is also my goal to promote an appreciation for learning, social consciousness, and self. I want to develop a community of teacher leaders that strive to help each student become a self-reliant, resourceful, and motivated learner. My objective is to guide teachers and students to attain their personal best as they develop a deep understanding of the content and the historical role their lineage has played in it. These goals will be accomplished by providing professional development that pushes teachers, paraprofessionals, and school aides to evolve with our students and their learning styles to deliver challenging, rigorous, exciting learning opportunities. We will encourage creativity and imagination and capitalize on the personal interest of every student. We will achieve these goals while keeping in mind our school's long history of activism at the forefront of bilingual education and multicultural studies.