Themes:
Subjects:
Cesar Chavez Elementary School, Los Robles Dual Immersion Magnet School, Creative Montessori School, Amika Maria Guillaume, Ruth Woods, Green Oaks Academy, Facebook, EPA Academy, Teach for America, Plugged In, College Track
Date of Creation or Publication:
10/24/2025
Creator
Meda Okelo
Donor
Amika Maria Guillaume
Language
English
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Interview of Amika Maria Guillaume by Meda Okelo. Topics include: Teach for America members who inspired her eventually joining Teach for America; hired as a teacher coach at Cesar Chavez in the Ravenswood City School District; principal Ruth Woods; after going back to school to get credentials, returning to Cesar Chavez to teach 7th grade; why she chose 7th grade; becoming vice principal and then principal at Cesar Chavez, Green Oaks and Los Robles; volunteering her schools to work with Facebook; why she prefers K-8 rather than a comprehensive middle school; leaving Cesar Chavez for Creative Montessori School; becoming principal of a new public charter high school, EPA Academy, where she worked for nine years; issues with careers for undocumented students; why she moved to working at College Track and future dreams for the EPA educational system and College Track.
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