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- [Sara] So let's highlight some key words here.
What do y'all think we would do, multiply, divide?
(muffled reply)
Good!
I feel like everything starts when you are small.
If you're treated amazing by a teacher
then you're going to have a good connection.
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- [Teacher] I'm willing to place you
in one of our breakout rooms, okay?
- Okay.
Hi guys. What are we working on?
I go to Del Valle High School.
I'm currently a senior.
I am graduating this year with my teaching certificate.
It's very like, it's like very, very exciting.
I have like more open doors, like becoming a teacher quicker
because I could start like as a substitute now,
or just being a teacher assistant and getting paid for it.
Does yours look like this one?
- [Student] Ah, yeah.
- Okay.
I'm basically becoming like a mini teacher,
like a small teacher so I'm getting
all the practice and everything,
so when I do become a real teacher
I'll be able to like be an awesome teacher, basically.
How do y'all think we would connect B to B?
That makes me feel very like happy
for the student because they're succeeding
and I was able to actually help them succeed.
I'll see y'all on Monday okay?
Bye, have a good day.
I'll help everyone, like all the kids,
but mostly elementary kids
just because that's where I had good experiences.
I always looked up to all my teachers
because of how much help they gave me since
like I was a Spanish speaking student,
When I first started elementary.
School was very frustrating:
I would struggle with all of my classes.
It took a while for me to process things because since like
I was still kind of learning English
like I knew English, but not that well.
They basically helped me develop my English.
And then fifth grade Ms. Gutierrez,
she was so amazing.
I always think about her until this day.
She's like, "You're very smart,
don't ever doubt yourself. Just always ask for help.
When in doubt, there's no such thing as a dumb question".
It helped me build my self esteem
and think positively about school.
Because before that I would always be like, "Oh no
like now I can't go to college,
if I'm already struggling now.
It was like really exciting when I saw
it was like, wow, I was capable of doing this on my own.
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(idling bus)
The stereotype that Del Valle has
is that we're the ghetto school,
just because we're,
most of us are low income students
and the majority of us are Hispanics or Latinos.
- [Coordinator] Try to go to her first,
before she even goes to you for anything.
- But what they don't know is that Del Valle
offers a bunch of opportunities.
You graduate with a certificate in like teaching like me,
they haven't seen the amount of stuff we have at Del Valle.
So now I just have to make sure
that when I go back to Del Valle,
that I like - I'm a positive image for Del Valle.
Does it mention eight anywhere in the question?
When I graduate, I'm going to continue
on with post-secondary education,
but most specifically in bilingual education.
And I plan on returning with Del Valle.
So I plan on going back to them
as soon as I get my post-secondary degree in education.
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It's like the difference it makes is that
since Del Valle, I feel like it paints like,
I feel like it paints a powerful picture to them,
like to the kids about Del Valle.
So now they have this like, like they have this pretty
picture in their head about how that high school
is going to be amazing, and they're more excited
to take like their career classes and discover
what they want to be.
Do you plan on going to college after high school?
Where do you want to go,
or you don't know yet?
I want to be that teacher that the elementary kids
think on like in high school,
like me right now, like,
"Oh yeah, I had that one teacher. She helped me so much.
I still like think of her."
You want to be a cook? Ahh, that's good.
In high school you should take cooking classes.
You can be a variety of things.
You can be, no you can be a teacher
and you can be at college
or you can be a doctor.
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