Sarah Chang is a Master’s degree and Administrative Services Credential candidate in the 25th cohort of the Principal Leadership Institute program at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Serving schools in West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) for ten plus years, she has been a Vice Principal at Bayview Summer Extended Program, where she successfully led an effective community of learners and stakeholders to accelerate literacy growth in the most underserved population with a focus on multilingual learners.
Over the years, Sarah has held numerous leadership positions including Math Teacher Site Lead, VAPA Liaison, grade level lead on the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) and Literacy Lessons Teacher Lead. In these roles, she coached teachers, staff and families with Data Driven Instruction protocols from the New Leaders and Accelerate Institute training she received. She strives to nurture a supporting learning community because she believes that a strong one can support all students to reach collegiate levels and achieve their dreams. Her efforts have centered around developing lifelong learners of all ages where each and every individual is comfortable exchanging strengths to help each other thrive. She implements an effective and kind leadership style so that student performance can accelerate in a meaningful, loving and joyful learning environment.
Sarah strongly believes in lifelong learning and empowers learners to learn from one another. In her community, you would see teachers visiting each other’s classrooms observing and exchanging quality instruction. In the classrooms, you would see students teaching, growing and learning together. You would also see families being invited to share something with the students from their careers. Sarah LOVES showing students how interdisciplinary fields are interconnected. Outside of school hours, you would see Sarah leading Family STEAMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math, Music) Nights! During the summer, you can often find Sarah participating in innovative PDs such as Community Resources for Science (CRS), Early Math Project and many more to bring back to her community.
Outside of her work in education, Sarah can be found painting and sketching storyboards for her next graphic novel idea while listening to some kpop music. She continues to try out things she has never tried before. The next wild adventure is…skateboarding!
