COLLEGE-WIDE TUTOR CO-COORDINATOR
Department of Mathematics
Diablo Valley College
Spring 2025 Courses
Past Classes
Intro to Upper Division Math
Math 289
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Final Exam
Calculus I
Math 192
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Final Exam
Differential Equations
Math 294
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Final Exam
MATH 193-1285
Calculus 2
MATH 140-1186
Math Tutor Training
INTD 140-5168
General Tutor Training
Calculus I with Support
Math 192
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Final Exam
MATH 292-0205
Calculus 3
THINGS I HAVE DONE
The Math & Engineering Student Center (formerly called the Math Lab) is one of DVC's largest tutoring centers on campus. Our center offers in-person and online tutoring for all levels of math. I communicated and coordinated with Math Lab team and math faculty to provide a smooth collaboration between the math department and strengthen DVC's math community. After the implementation of Guided Pathways and Interest Areas, the center has now grown outside of just tutoring! It now provides many, many services to students. Check out the website to find out more.
These changes encouraged me to take the role of the Collegewide Tutor Co-coordinator, where I support all of our tutoring programs on campus and co-chair the Tutoring Advisory Council. The goal is to eventually remove the stigma around tutoring on campus and help incorporate tutoring as a basic requirement for a course. Just the way a student is expected to complete their homework in order to improve their understanding, tutoring should be another common expectation for all students, not just the failing ones.
Our STEM Supplemental Instruction program was a peer-led learning environment designed and proven to enhance student performance in some of our campus’s most challenging science and math courses. The program held voluntary, free support workshops to help you build your confidence in problem solving and improve your conceptual understanding of the material covered in your course. Peer facilitators coordinated with science and math faculty to tailor the weekly sessions to the topics being discussed in class that week and highlighted common challenges and reinforced key themes to help students succeed. All students were free to join as many sessions as their schedule permitted.
The San Francisco Math Circle (SFMC) is a program designed to increase the quality and quantity of students who become mathematics educators and researchers, or who simply love and use mathematics in their studies, work and daily activities.
Before becoming a math professor at Diablo Valley College I spent most of my time with SFMC. I was an instructor and in 2013 my colleagues and I started SFMC Math Camp.
The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is an annual challenge that invites students, ages 13-18, to share their passion for math and science with the world! In 2015 I was one of the evaluation panelist.
The Pre-College Academy (PCA) is a six-week college preparatory summer program hosted by EAOP at the University of California, Berkeley.
For 30 years PCA has provided intensive preparation for EAOP students enrolled in partner schools throughout the Bay Area. PCA prepares students for their academic and professional futures by providing them with opportunity to share in the University of California's tradition of educational excellence and diversity. I joined the PCA in 2015 and lead research project-based math courses where students can apply the math and learn how to present it.
Science Supplemental Instruction (SI), a series of one-unit courses supplementing the STEM major gatekeeper courses. The instructors create learning communities to focus on conceptual understanding and mutual support. Classes are facilitated by strong undergraduate students under the guidance of a faculty member. Instruction is mainly through hands-on and interactive, small-group work and course size limited to 20. While working there I managed all math SI courses.
College Track recruits students from underserved communities and works continuously with them from the summer before ninth grade through college graduation. Their 10-year program removes the barriers that prevent students from earning their college degree by providing them with comprehensive academic support, leadership training, financial and college advising, and scholarships. They teach students the skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond.
In the past years I have done several projects for College Track Oakland. I managed their tutoring center, created and ran a class for students needing support in high school algebra, created and ran their math summer program for incoming freshmen, and created a high school mathematics research workshop.