Hong

"So that's sort of how I started my career in teaching I taught in the reservation in New Mexico for two years Math and Science."

"I'm everything that is not related to academics."

"I wear a few hats on campus: I run our tutoring program, I'm the yearbook advisor, and I do all the stuff with our students."

"Communication skills and just being able to work with people are incredibly important, especially when working with students."

"I enjoy working with staff and students and sort of seeing their vision of what they want to accomplish come to life."

"Helping them come to a compromise...figuring out how to work together."

"I'm able to work with students and achieve their goals and dreams."

"Because teaching and being an educator is difficult. There's a lot of moving parts. It's, you know, some days you are really discouraged and some days are great, but just having a strong sense of your purpose—why are you in education?"

"as much as we do have an impact on students, it's not just me. I only see students for a finite amount of time and they have so much other impacts outside of the classroom"

"You can actually start subbing as a full-time substitute teacher and especially in California right now where we have such shortage you can get paid $250 a day"

"Showing up is most of the battle. You don't always know what impact you have on other people."

"always advocating for myself and always asking questions. and trying to learn from every single situation"

"I don't see myself represented in that room and one thing that I have needed to do is say I am qualified. I need to take up space because I represent the students and my opinion is important."