Post-Secondary

After nearly two years in Barcelona, I moved back to Boise to begin graduate course work in education at Boise State University. My research took me down the paths of gifted and talented education, alternative education, inquiry-based learning strategies, and educational philosophy (from Plato's Republic to Dewey's Democracy and Education to Darling-Hammond's The Flat World and Education).

While at Boise State University, I worked as a composition specialist with the College Assistance for Migrants Program, during which time I provided writing feedback in individual conference and workshop settings. I often sat humbled at my desk by the students’ determination and appreciation of education. The position required that I schedule advising meetings with students, revise and edit student work, and maintain correspondence with English professors at Boise State to help the C.A.M.P. students with their course work. On one occasion, the student coordinator offered me a thrilling chance to co-teach a lesson for two sections of the C.A.M.P. study skills course on scholarship essays.

Photos: (Top) With some CAMPers after making "papel picado," December 2010 (Second) With former CAMP career councelor Diana Garza at an end-of-the-semester gathering (Third) With the whole CAMP crew at the BSU REC center climbing wall, checking out what the center has to offer!