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Student Bio/Information

Kristi McLaughlin began her career in education in 2007 as she worked as a College Advisor for a TRIO Program based out of Wilson High School in Long Beach.  She worked with low income, first-generation future college students as they prepared to complete high school.  Following  two years as a counselor,  Kristi graduated from California State University, Long Beach with honors and a degree in Organizational Communication.  She immediately entered graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Teacher Education Program.  It was in this program that she earned her Single Subject Teaching Credential and Master’s of Education all while teaching for the first time.

Her first days as a teacher were located at Crenshaw High School in South Los Angeles where she taught both Economics and United States History for eleventh and twelfth grade.  As a student teacher at a large high school, she was able to learn not only about in-class practices and strategies, but also about the political and oppressive atmosphere of education.  Student protests regarding a charter takeover and a student-teacher protest in downtown Los Angeles showed her, from the start, that entering education included entering into a political arena focused on all things aside from student achievement.  She later began working at Lou Dantlzer High School in August of 2010.  As a co-located charter school on a district campus, her students were plagued with an array of challenges which helped form her own educational theory stemming from Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Critical Race Theory- Circumstantially Relevant Pedagogy©.  Kristi is currently teaching 8^th grade History at Lou Dantzler Middle School in South Los Angeles.

PLI Fieldwork Cohort 13

UCLA Fieldwork Supervisor: DeeDee Lonon

Kristi McLaughlin is a candidate for the 2013 M.Ed at UCLA's Principal Leadership Institute

Kristi McLaughlin can be reached at mclaughlin.kristi@gmail.com

School Information

Lou Dantzler Middle School is located in South Los Angeles within the Challengers Boys & Girls Club. Lou Dantzler Middle has 280 students and is 97% African American and 3% Latino with 80% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch as of the 2012-2013 school year.

Mission

The mission of Lou Dantzler Middle School is:

• To prepare students to attend and to compete academically at the best colleges and universities in the nation.
• To expand the choices that parents and students have for a first rate educational opportunity within the public school system.
• To realize this vision by discovering and developing each scholars gifts and talents.

Vision

Scholars come from a Strutured Supportive School culture!

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