Stories from KIPP Northern California teachers, students, families & staff!
Aja is 17 years old and has a résumé that most 10-year-long career professionals would envy. From interning at Old Navy corporate to creating professional-level marketing videos for a national audience for KIPP Foundation,...
My KIPP journey started at KIPP Heartwood in San José and I went to KIPP San José Collegiate for high school. I like to say my family is a KIPP family because all of...
Davida Coleman, the mother of Michelle Coleman – Assistant Principal at KIPP Bridge Academy, and Author of The Beginning And The End, has expressed herself through art for as long as she can remember....
We were wrapping up our time in Tennessee in June of 2019. My practicum year was coming to an end and my husband was finishing up his mandatory rotations at a hospital in Knoxville....
My parents are from Mexico, and in our home, bilingualism was highly valued and important. I didn’t always get that impression from others, and it wasn’t until I took a Spanish language course in...
Este verano inscribí a mi hija de quinto grado en una escuela nueva y estaba un poco preocupada, pero sólo necesité una llamada para asegurarme que había tomado la decisión correcta al elegir KIPP...
As a parent enrolling my fifth-grade daughter in a brand new school this summer, I was apprehensive, but it only took one phone call to assure me I had made the right choice in...
It’s great to know that before the first day of school my students and I have one thing in common. I’m from Stockton, too! I had a really happy childhood. Lots of friends, a...
I grew up in San Francisco and have been a KIPPster since the 6th grade when I enrolled at KIPP Bayview Academy. I’ve known since I was a little girl that I would go...
I’ve lived my entire life with my mother and brother in San José. My favorite subjects in school are english, geometry, and biology. Outside of school, I like to draw and listen to music....
I moved to California from Mexico City when I was 17 years old. I went to high school for a year, but I left before graduating because I wasn’t aware that I could still...