Always hungry for more!
My name is Andrew J. Griggs M.Ed.
First and foremost I am engaged to my partner of over 15 years Veronica DeAnda. She is my co-pilot in life and I continue to find new things I love about her every single day. Love you Vern!
I am the BE.Cuisine Culinary Arts Program Lead, a CTE Culinary Arts Program in Manteca, California. I am also an adjunct faculty member at The Teachers College of San Joaquin in the Master's Core teaching courses on 21st learning and innovations and the IMPACT Teaching Credential Program where I led redesign efforts of a class focusing on innovation and education. My work focuses on working with students and teaching professionals to increase their involvement in schools, Career and Technical Education with a focus on equity in the community, innovation, personalized and experiential learning, and transformational leadership.
When I am not in a classroom, catch me on the dollar slots at the nearest casino!
First and foremost I am engaged to my partner of over 15 years Veronica DeAnda. She is my co-pilot in life and I continue to find new things I love about her every single day. Love you Vern!
I am the BE.Cuisine Culinary Arts Program Lead, a CTE Culinary Arts Program in Manteca, California. I am also an adjunct faculty member at The Teachers College of San Joaquin in the Master's Core teaching courses on 21st learning and innovations and the IMPACT Teaching Credential Program where I led redesign efforts of a class focusing on innovation and education. My work focuses on working with students and teaching professionals to increase their involvement in schools, Career and Technical Education with a focus on equity in the community, innovation, personalized and experiential learning, and transformational leadership.
When I am not in a classroom, catch me on the dollar slots at the nearest casino!
- Sierra High School c.o. 2005
- Johnson & Wales c.o. 07/09
- Teachers College of SJ c.o. 2015
- University of the Pacific, in process, Ed.D c.o. 2021
Some things I've been working on lately...
- The Authentic Learning Cycle is something I came up with to operationalize the cycle students go through when combining authentic assessment with personalized interest based learning and CTE.
- TINKER is an idea I came up with for a creative solution to credit attainment in a project based learning environment.
- This was part of a presentation that I did for an evaluation of the M.Ed. in Educational Entrepreneurship Cognate at The University of the Pacific at Sacramento. This concept was created around the idea that change warriors show up to this work and become change heroes in our community.