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Credentials
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Education
- North Coast School of Education, Sonoma County Office of Education - Career Technical Education Credentials - Education, Child Development, and Family Services / Business and Finance / Marketing, Sales & Services / Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation, 2025
- San Jose State University, Pupil Personnel Services Credential, 2021
- San Jose State University, M.A. in History, 2008
- Palo Alto University, Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology, 2003-2004
- Stanford University Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Teaching and Research Assistant, under Professor Emeritus, Dr. Hans Steiner, M.D., 2003-2004
- San Jose State University Graduate Program, M.A. in Educational Counseling, 2002
- San Jose State University Graduate Program, Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, Keynote speaker at Teaching Credential graduation, 2001
- San Jose State University, B.S. in Business, Minor: Economics, 1997
Numerous academic honors, scholarships, and grants.
California Standards for the Teaching Profession
2024 CALIFORNIA STANDARDS FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSION (CSTP)
2024 CALIFORNIA STANDARDS FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSION (CSTP)
CSTP 1: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning - Teachers apply knowledge about each student to activate an approach to learning that strengthens and reinforces each student’s participation, engagement, connection, and sense of belonging.
CSTP 2: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning - Teachers create and uphold a safe, caring, and intellectually stimulating learning environment that affirms student agency, voice, identity, and development and promotes equity and inclusivity.
CSTP 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter for Student Learning - Teachers integrate content, processes, materials, and resources into a coherent, culturally relevant, and equitable curriculum that engages and challenges learners to develop the academic and social–emotional knowledge and skills required to become competent and resourceful learners.
CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students - Teachers set a purposeful direction for instruction and learning activities, intentionally planning, and enacting challenging and relevant learning experiences that foster each student’s academic and social–emotional development.
CSTP 5: Assessing Students for Learning - Teachers employ equitable assessment practices to help identify students’ interests and abilities, to reveal what students know and can do, and to determine what they need to learn. Teachers use that information to advance and monitor student progress as well as to guide teachers’ and students’ actions to improve learning experiences and outcomes.
CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator - Teachers develop as effective and caring professional educators by engaging in relevant and
high-quality professional learning experiences that increase their teaching capacity, leadership development, and personal well-being. Doing so enables teachers to support each student to learn and thrive.
CSTP 2: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning - Teachers create and uphold a safe, caring, and intellectually stimulating learning environment that affirms student agency, voice, identity, and development and promotes equity and inclusivity.
CSTP 3: Understanding and Organizing Subject Matter for Student Learning - Teachers integrate content, processes, materials, and resources into a coherent, culturally relevant, and equitable curriculum that engages and challenges learners to develop the academic and social–emotional knowledge and skills required to become competent and resourceful learners.
CSTP 4: Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students - Teachers set a purposeful direction for instruction and learning activities, intentionally planning, and enacting challenging and relevant learning experiences that foster each student’s academic and social–emotional development.
CSTP 5: Assessing Students for Learning - Teachers employ equitable assessment practices to help identify students’ interests and abilities, to reveal what students know and can do, and to determine what they need to learn. Teachers use that information to advance and monitor student progress as well as to guide teachers’ and students’ actions to improve learning experiences and outcomes.
CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator - Teachers develop as effective and caring professional educators by engaging in relevant and
high-quality professional learning experiences that increase their teaching capacity, leadership development, and personal well-being. Doing so enables teachers to support each student to learn and thrive.