Palacio Podcast
Replay: Linda Bueno Teaches About Life Along with The American History
Linda Bueno is a teacher at Jordan High School in Long Beach. This past summer she recruited this writer to help her develop a curriculum in American History and U.S. Government (two of my favorite subjects). In the process, I discovered not only the complexity of developing a curriculum for high school students but also grew even more respect for the challenges that teachers face in today’s urban schools. Linda Bueno not only accepts those challenges, but she also thrives on them. For Bueno, teaching is a very personal mission.
“I’ve always wanted to be a teacher actually since I was little.”
She remembers being in elementary school and realizing that there is no one teaching that looked like or was like her.
“I think students need to have teachers that look like them, sound like them, understand them.”
Linda Bueno wants her students to embrace American History because it is also their history; their history as Latino/as, African Americans, Pacific Islanders, Cambodians, European-Americans. It is in that history and in those lessons, they also learn about life, their own educational goals, and their future.
PalacioMagazine.com interviewed Linda Bueno in her Jordan High School classroom full of America’s History and her obvious love for her students.
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“I was born and raised in Southern California. My parents were both immigrants (mother from Germany, father from Mexico). I’ve been married for 27 years to an immigrant from Jordan.”
Bueno has a Master of Arts in Education from California State University, Long Beach and Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she was a Double Major in Psychology and Sociology. She has been working in the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) since 1990 with a detour in 2007-2009 at the Hemet Unified School District. I met her when she was Dean of Students at Jordan-Plus High School from 2012 to 2017.
At various times during her tenure in LBUSD, Linda Bueno has been a Student Intervention Specialist, an Assistant Principal, and provided individual teacher support as a Content Standards Coach, Technology.
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