HELLO, WORLD
My name is Christopher Ozuna and welcome to my website! I am a PhD candidate at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, part of the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am part of the Policy, Leadership and Research Methods group and my interests include policy areas that are tied to K-12 classrooms such as transportation, absenteeism, school health and teacher education.
In terms of theories and philosophy, I was trained as a classroom teacher and mainly exposed to constructivism, social justice/teacher activism and critical race theory as lenses to view public education and teaching, all whilst spending my working years in schools well entrenched in the current accountability and assessment wave. In grad school, I've been trained in quantitative methods, data strategy & management with a dash of philosophy of science and GIS for good measure.
I'm interested in understanding how schools and communities interact with each other, how we can accurately measure these interactions and how we can apply our findings in ways that make schools more equitable.
I hope this website serves as a portfolio of the things I have learned, the work I have done and the interests that continue to capture my attention. Thanks for visiting.
-Chris
In terms of theories and philosophy, I was trained as a classroom teacher and mainly exposed to constructivism, social justice/teacher activism and critical race theory as lenses to view public education and teaching, all whilst spending my working years in schools well entrenched in the current accountability and assessment wave. In grad school, I've been trained in quantitative methods, data strategy & management with a dash of philosophy of science and GIS for good measure.
I'm interested in understanding how schools and communities interact with each other, how we can accurately measure these interactions and how we can apply our findings in ways that make schools more equitable.
I hope this website serves as a portfolio of the things I have learned, the work I have done and the interests that continue to capture my attention. Thanks for visiting.
-Chris