When I was nine years old, I lived in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, a predominantly African-American, poor community. My family and I, refugees from Vietnam, were among the few Asian people in the neighborhood. My first school in the United States was depressing: the buildings were in a state of disrepair and the teachers were overworked and under-resourced. The students, rather than being inspired and encouraged, were mostly being housed from one day to the next. This was my first school experience, and I didn’t know it could be different.
A few years later, we moved to San Francisco’s Richmond district, and I saw…
This is the opening of CEO Gia Truong’s latest post on Education Week’s Learning Deeply blog, and is a post in two parts. Continue reading about Gia’s take on leading for equity at the links below: