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- Name:
- Jeffrey C. Ponferrada
- City:
- From the Bay to LA
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- In A Relationship
- Current occupation:
- Grad Student: Teacher Education Program
- School or University
- UCLA
- Tag causes (the causes or issues you are most passionate about):
- Civil Rights Issues, Education, Music as an Agent for Social Change, Social Justice, Youth Development
- Project or initiative you have started or would love to start:
- Pin@y Educational Partnerships:
Among the first experiences to set me on my path towards becoming a teacher was my introduction to and involvement in Pin@y Educational Partnerships. The PEP program is a service-learning project that began in 2001 to attend to the vastly underserved Filipina/o American student population at Balboa High School. Similar to the experiences of those who pioneered Ethnic and Asian American Studies at SF State, the number of these urban youth greatly outnumbered that of their Filipina/o American teachers. Consequently, students have lacked educators and role models who are fully representative, culturally sensitive, and openly receptive of their history and background. Thus, I became 1 of 11 SF State Students chosen by Professor Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales to build and foster partnerships with these youth so that they may have positive mentors at school. As the mentoring continued, we became aware that these students longed for not only role models who they could deeply relate to, but also for an actual course to delve into the content of Filipino/Filipino American history and experiences. Students also expressed that although their current World and U.S. history courses made some mention of Filipinos, ultimately they felt this material fell short of providing a full understanding of their place in this larger historical context. Hearing the youth voice their opinions in this manner became a major turning point for both the program and me as it drove us to shift from our roles as mentors into teachers now responsible for an actual course.
Praxis Roks Collective:
Coupled with my love for teaching is my passion for creative writing and performance. As a founding member of the Hip Hop collective Praxis Roks, I have worked to fuse education and Hip Hop to engage communities in dialogue about various personal, local and global issues. From this, I have helped provide workshops on the "power of voice" and the various ways of using that power to communicate.
- Additional Comments/Favorite Quote/Favorite Album/Other:
- “He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.” Jose Rizal
"The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music." Aaron Copland
"One of the best ways to win any game is to write the rules." Michael S. Malone
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Peace Jeff,
dropping in to show your page some love. Diggin your play list. Hope you have a great week.
-stay focused
kiki
Peace,
Isaac