Entries tagged 'introduction'

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Let’s Talk About Me

Given that this little blog experiment has just begun, it’s only right that I document a bit about who I am and where I come from.

I’m currently working on the project team for Right To Learn, a campaign to organize California teenagers in improving their schools. The campaign, in its infancy, is sponsored by YouthNoise, a youth development nonprofit based out of San Francisco that operates a social network for socially-conscious young people. While I will surely write more about the campaign in the future, right now we’re focusing our efforts on collecting stories from youth about what needs to change in California schools; take a look at this example.

Right To Learn is my latest experience in the world of urban education and education policy. Before moving to San Francisco to work for YouthNoise, I worked as the assistant principal at KIPP: New Orleans West (NOW) College Prep in Houston, an emergency charter school set up to work with students stranded in Houston after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. NOW was a tremendous experience for me personally and a clear illustration of how all kids can achieve with the proper mix of school design, faculty, staff and hard work.

Rounding out my professional and academic experience, I have also received a fancy degree in Public Policy, during which I focused on education and technology policy. Before that, I spent two years as an elementary school teacher in Houston, easily the most difficult job I’ve ever held.

That’s the professional bio and I’m tired, so more will have to follow.

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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Speaking to an Empty Room

“Three little cows, one big world, a whole lot to say.” That’s the best I could come up with when WordPress asked me for a tagline for this blog. I’ve been down this road a few times before, usually attempting to leverage my old standby domain, treycsar.net, into something others might want to read. I’ve failed… repeatedly.

There’s nothing like a little perseverance, however, so here we go again. The key differentiator this time? A name. (More on that later.) In the meantime, I’m going to try to dedicate about 30 minutes an evening to posting something about my day, my work or my take on topics I care a whole lot about like education, technology, or politics.

It’s an ambitious effort, but I feel like most blogs updated less than a few times a week quickly feel stale and uninteresting, and I hope to avoid the same fate here.

Will I succeed? I have no idea, though I’ve thoroughly washed myself of the expectations for thousands of dedicated readers, awaiting my every word, making success is a definite maybe. I just hope to find a place to express my thoughts and effectively contribute intelligent commentary to the random Google user who stumbles upon a post amid the cacophony of the Web.

So, mystery reader, welcome to Tres Vacas. I hope you find something worthwhile in my little piece of the Web frontier and that you graciously overlook this insipid introduction in favor of the things yet to come.

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