My philosophy of teaching is centered on bonding with my students. I do this in order that I may form a mutually empowering relationship with them. I am a teacher who consciously works to find the proper balance in between relating to my students in an uplifting and caring way, and disciplining them in a motivational and constructive way.

I feel that my nearly 3 years of full time substitute elementary school teaching in Central Los Angeles has shown me that the most effective way to teach and get my students to learn and get the most as human beings out of the time that we spend together varies from class to class. For example, some classes and students need more discipline while others need more caring. It is a challenge that I embrace to truly impact my student's lives in a strong, creative, and mind opening way, or by merely being authentic, open, and human with them. I am a student of teaching, and of my students, and I always will be.

I believe and know that I can make a difference in my student's lives. I seek to show them new ways of being, thinking, taking action, and understanding life and their own relationship to it. I seek and work intelligently to empower them to set themselves intelligently free. I seek and work intelligently to empower them to set and achieve for themselves whatever goals they choose for themselves.

Education should be stimulating, interactive, exploratory, enlightening, transformational, and fun. I create it as such for my students, and they make it that way for me as well.