Calero High School

Born in Taiwan in 1970, I attended my early elementary school years there, learning to speak Mandarin at school and Taiwanese at home. In 1982, I came to United States and attended Freedom Elementary School in Watsonville, California, where I learned spanglish. For middle and high school, I attended Monte Vista Christian School for a sink-or-swim English-only education. I attended San Jose State University in 1989, received my BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1995, specializing in machine design, which led to a project engineer position for several years at SierraTherm Production Furnaces, where I designed conveyor furnaces for the semiconductor industry. In 1998, I left engineering and joined my brother to start eBake.com, an online bakery business selling Cookie Greetings(R), my registered trademark for the world's first shippable photo cookies. In 2003, I sold the San Jose branch and decided to become a teacher.

In 2006, I graduated from UC Santa Cruz with an MA in Math Education and a preliminary teaching credential in mathematics. By 2009, I cleared the teaching credential via the Real McCoy of BTSA, the New Teacher's Project at UCSC, and was authorized with a complete set of teaching credentials for all secondary mathematics and sciences. In 2013, I added the ITE credential in response to our state's focus on career technical education. That is, from 2006 to 2013, I cleared about one credential per year. In chronological order, they were: 1) mathematics, 2) calculus, 3) physics 4) biological sciences, 5) geosciences, 6) chemistry, and 7) industrial and technology education.

As a teacher, I have been working exclusively with at-risk students and alternative schools... seven years at a charter school, one year at a community day school, and last year here at East Side Union High School District, teaching physics at Calero High School, a school of choice. This year, I am still at Calero High School adding forensic science to my prep. My goal is to become an expert in working with at-risk students.