Stories & Experiences

Take a deeper dive into the education and experience offered through CRLP

A group of educators pose together at a CRLP event.

Celebrating our educator colleagues through storytelling

Humans, as relational beings, are connected through story. Celebrating our educator colleagues through storytelling lifts up examples of growth, self-reflection, and improvement as well as examples of resilience and perseverance. The CRLP at UC San Diego invites you to tuck into our monthly vignettes featuring our regional CRLP Teacher Leaders in order to gain an understanding of the CRLP culture of encouragement. Furthermore, each interview will highlight and bring to life aspects of CRLP’s five core values: Literacy, Equity, Leadership, Community, and Inquiry.

Our hope is that each of these stories will activate your empathy and compassion, your curiosity, and your motivation as an educator. While each entry will vary slightly in focus, all will leave you with something to consider in terms of your own story: a new instructional strategy, an expanded view on literacy, or a fresh outlook on leadership from the classroom. How can the CRLP at UC San Diego support you in those lifelong and ongoing revisions? Read on and find out more. We’re so very glad you’re here.

“I’m just so appreciative to have this network of like minded educators who are equity driven, want to take a learner stance, and who are people who want to learn, change and improve.”

July 23, 2024

“Trust the research even if it feels like you’re taking two steps forward and one step back…you’re still advancing at a pace of one.”

July 23, 2024

“I aim to value and celebrate my students’ diverse backgrounds, languages, and cultures, creating an inclusive and empowering learning environment.”

January 23, 2024

“I aim to value and celebrate my students’ diverse backgrounds, languages, and cultures, creating an inclusive and empowering learning environment.”

November 27, 2023

“If we don’t invest in our students’ emotional well-being then we can never fully access their academic potential.”

October 18, 2023

“I actively participate in the California Reading and Literature Project (CRLP) to enhance my teaching, inspire my students, and empower them to become catalysts for positive change. The CRLP is truly progressive. I love the CRLP.

June 27, 2023

“My involvement in the CRLP gave me the confidence, the community, the support, and that vital life-line I needed to strive for more, take risks, and reach for my goals and dreams as an educator.”

May 20, 2023

“The role CRLP has played in my career continues to evolve.”

April 25, 2023

“The number one reason I am a Teacher Leader with the project is because of its community.”

April 25, 2023