Yao Hill Professional Reflection

Private school is expensive. And you have to be really good at academics to be admitted. For these two reasons, I have not thought about sending my kids to private schools. Yet one day in early June, I got a call from the Vice Principal for my 5th grade graduating daughter, recommending her to apply for La Pietra because her teacher considered her as a top 20% student. I was in quite some disbelief. I know my daughter is creative and talented in her way, but top 20% in academics?! But who am I to deny her the opportunity to go to La Pietra. So I went on this process to apply for a private school and below are lessons learned (in progress).  1. You can make the cost manageable by applying for both financial aid and merit-based scholarships from the school and other organizations. The Financial Aid application is done through a third-party vendor and charges a fee ($60 for School & Student Services ). Completing the financial aid is like the experience of filing taxes on your ow...

I have joined the Grand Challenges in Assessment Project (GCiA) Implementation Team in 2021. Over the years, my team and I feel that we do not always know where the project is and where we are going. Reflecting on my personal work habits, I know that I heavily rely on my center's website to document my work and track projects. It just happened that I had a day free of meetings. I ventured into editing the project page: Pedagogical Improvements that I has been leading. It looked like any other project page with just the project goals. See an example from the Drive Innovation team page: Honestly, I do not like editing websites. Because it takes enormous amount of time, speaking from the experience as a webmasters for a student club when I was in grad school, for the professional organizations that I chaired, and for my center's website and project sites that I led. I usually keep my sites as simple as possible. I give a lot of credit to Karen Singer-Freeman who created and ma...