I am interested in pursuing a career in education. While a teacher is the first job to come to mind, there is a million more jobs behind the scenes in education that allows change to happen. I would be mentored by my old advisor, Regina Kruglyak, in helping spread project based learning to the San Diego area. This is an opportunity to see the different kinds of jobs you can attain in education as well as how project based learning in enacted in schools, especially the ones who aren’t initially designed for that. Interning here also interests me because I would be helping teach teachers instead of the kids themselves which is a possibility that while I hadn’t thought of, definitely catches my attention.
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Latitude High is a school that was founded by our very own former principal, Lillian Hsu. It is a project based learning school that is inspired by High Tech’s own model of learning. My 9th grade humanities teacher, Sara Islas, works at the school and has communicated my interest in interning here. Due to their similar values, the school seems eager to host me so far. This would give me the real life, in class learning experience I crave. I deeply enjoy teaching and helping others discover themselves through education. I would love to intern here because I feel I would get to see what it means not only to be a teacher, but how to start up and establish new schools that aid communities that I can relate to and who can relate to myself.
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The reason I am so passionate about education it is a form of activism that I can realistically do and enact real change, even if it is in one child. A friend from school interned at the ACLU last year and I have spoken with her to see the possibility of taking me on as an intern this year. Working with the ACLU will give me the chance to explore another career path that interests me, law. In the future, I could become a lawyer for the ACLU or work in immigration. I want to help people and I think by interning with the ACLU, it will give me an avenue to see how I can more directly impact injustices in today’s world. Additionally, it would give me perspective into what it’s like to be a working activist instead of just participating in protests or organizing them. Change needs revolutionaries, but it also needs the people behind the scenes organizing it all, and I can see myself doing this.
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