"To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success–the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history–with a society that provides opportunities for all."
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
My name is Ji Soo Song, a former AmeriCorps Member at City Year DC and recipient of the 2018 WilmerHale Civic Innovation Award . During the 2017-2018 school year, I served public school students from low-income communities in the nation's capital to help them reach graduation day. Currently, I am an education policy graduate student at American University's School of Education and a graduate intern at ISTE.
As a Dartmouth College alum with a STEM background and several professional experiences in education research, policy, and practice my goal is to be a voice for all students (particularly for those interested in science) and provide them with equitable resources, research-based, effective instruction, and appropriate assessments so that they may access higher education and become international leaders in their field.
During my senior year of college, on two separate occasions, I sat down and spoke with my former supervisor from the U.S. Department of Education and one of my favorite professors from the Dartmouth Education Department. I asked both people just one question, "What advice do you have for me as a soon-to-be graduate?"
To my surprise, their answers were exactly the same, "Write."
They knew that this first year out of college was going to be tough and that I will learn many things. But unless I take a moment every now and then to reflect and write, I will not know what I have learned. They wanted me to write so that I would build my own perspective on various issues within the broad, complicated field of education.
I took that advice to heart and began this blog to voice my own opinions.
Note: All opinions on this website are my own and do not represent the views of any organization or entity.
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
My name is Ji Soo Song, a former AmeriCorps Member at City Year DC and recipient of the 2018 WilmerHale Civic Innovation Award . During the 2017-2018 school year, I served public school students from low-income communities in the nation's capital to help them reach graduation day. Currently, I am an education policy graduate student at American University's School of Education and a graduate intern at ISTE.
As a Dartmouth College alum with a STEM background and several professional experiences in education research, policy, and practice my goal is to be a voice for all students (particularly for those interested in science) and provide them with equitable resources, research-based, effective instruction, and appropriate assessments so that they may access higher education and become international leaders in their field.
During my senior year of college, on two separate occasions, I sat down and spoke with my former supervisor from the U.S. Department of Education and one of my favorite professors from the Dartmouth Education Department. I asked both people just one question, "What advice do you have for me as a soon-to-be graduate?"
To my surprise, their answers were exactly the same, "Write."
They knew that this first year out of college was going to be tough and that I will learn many things. But unless I take a moment every now and then to reflect and write, I will not know what I have learned. They wanted me to write so that I would build my own perspective on various issues within the broad, complicated field of education.
I took that advice to heart and began this blog to voice my own opinions.
Note: All opinions on this website are my own and do not represent the views of any organization or entity.