Imagine a school that has limitless potential in students, families eager to engage and a talented and inspried teaching staff, and then imagine that they are unsure where to go, and lose touch with their roots in why their school was created in the first place.  Then imagine a group of teachers and adminsitration coming back to the table to recognize the disconnect and rededicate themselves to ensuring all students and families that attend East Oakland PRIDE, know why they are proud to be apart of a community that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Ingrid spearheaded the movement to come back to best practices and what's good for students this year when she and other staff realized they were moving forward without an explicit purpose.  She helped train and motivate her Instructional Leadership Team and teachers on every grade level to come back to school wide goal setting.  They set measurable and ambtious goals and are now on their way to supporting all teachers in pursuit of those goals.

She saw a need for another year of bilingual curriculum and started a class to meet that need.  Yet another example that when Ingrid sees a need she views it as an opportunity and makes sure it's pursuit is rooted in student achievement.