We Are SFUSD

I grew up in the Mission and with the James Lick community, and there’s a big sense of pride that I’m able to give back to the community that helped raise me.

I appreciate the small community here at Thurgood Marshall and getting to know everyone really well. We are like a family and we all love each other.

It’s important to me to be a Black male teacher in a school with lots of Black and Brown kids, so there’s a certain way I carry myself.

What I love is seeing students take their skills to other places that I could not foresee, and learning from them.

My hope is to lift the capacity of schools so that we can further support the needs of our community based on what they want to see in schools.

I help out at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary, where I went to elementary school, and I love giving back to my community and helping the kids grow.

I am creating the programs that I wish existed when I was a student in SFUSD.

This is a really great time to make sure our students are ready to be adults with personal finance education to help them make the right decisions.

Everyone from teachers, community partners, paraeducators, and our security team are willing and able to do what is necessary to support our kids and get their basic needs met.

My favorite part of my work is seeing how incredibly excited students get about the library, reading, finding out new things, and thinking critically.

I want to tell my peers to not give up on their goals. It’ll be worth it in the end to work hard now.

I like playing in the school yard, my classroom, doing art with my teacher, and learning about space.

My elementary school teachers at Lau influenced me to want to work with children. I’m glad I get to go back to the school and volunteer.

Working at a school is a family business and I’m with a group of people who love being here.

Ninth graders are very special humans who have taught me so much about being organized, structured and the importance of having a healthy sense of humor.

As an SFUSD student, I was lucky enough to have brilliant teachers who provided me with the foundation for my career and now as a recruiter, I am able to make sure teachers like them can continue to teach in SFUSD.

It’s so important for me, especially as an immigrant, for my daughter to go to school in San Francisco where there is so much diversity.

I was born and raised around the corner from Carver. My children attended Carver, and for the past 16 years I have worked there where I take care of the students and staff. I love all of it.

I was a student at Spring Valley, so it’s nice to come back to the community where I grew up and learn from the families that are now here.