Kaylee Yoshii Spiegelman is a Master’s degree and Administrative Services Credential in the 25th cohort of the Principal Leadership Institute program at UC Berkeley's School of Education. Her academic interests include multilingual education, digital and media literacy, and Ethnic Studies-infused Social Studies curriculum development.
Kaylee currently serves at George Washington High School in San Francisco working as a Social Studies teacher and Digital Learning Facilitator. She began her education career as a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia where she taught English at San Buenaventura University. She then returned to San Francisco, where she has taught ELD Ethnic Studies, ELD World History, ELD American Democracy/Economics, World History, and the Culinary Geography elective.
Over Kaylee’s 8 years of teaching at GWHS, working closely with multilingual students informed her perspective on the need for transformative change. This goal motivated her to serve as the Writing is Thinking and Strategic Inquiry facilitator, World History lead, and collaborate on the Empathy Team and Union Building Committee. Over the summers, she teaches at the Summer Academy for Integrated Language Learning and has served as the Curriculum Lead and Instructional Mentor. For the past 4 years, Kaylee also served as a cooperating teacher and enjoyed the rewarding experience of nurturing the next generation of teachers by launching them into their careers with a foundation of equity-based practices. Across all her endeavors, Kaylee strives to passionately advocate for a school environment where all students and staff feel valued and empowered.
Prior to her PLI work, Kaylee earned a BA in History and minors in Spanish and Education from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Social Studies-History and holds a Single Subject Social Studies credential from San Francisco State University.
Kaylee’s greatest joys are being married to her husband, deepening relationships and roots in her community in San Francisco, and serving on the Justice Outreach team at her church. You will often find her cooking nourishing food for friends and family, precisely steeping tea, watching anime, or hiking to high places to see the sunrise.
