About Us

About Us

Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP) is a teaching pipeline and a space for the development of critical Filipina/o American curriculum and research. PEP is dually located in the academy and in the community. As a program of San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Department in the College of Ethnic Studies, PEP partners with San Francisco public schools and the Filipino Community Center located in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco. PEP’s teaching pipeline connects San Francisco State University upper division undergraduates and graduate students who have an interest in pursuing careers in the field of education, with community college, high school, middle school, and elementary school students who are primarily from low-income backgrounds. One of the main objectives for the PEP Program is to reach out to the students who are under-performing their potential to provide them the support and opportunities necessary to achieve their goals.

GOALS

•    RETAIN both Filipina/o high school and college students.

•    RECRUIT high school students to pursue college and to recruit college students to pursue graduate school and careers in education.

•    REFLECT on and study the struggle and survival stories of Filipinas/os in the United States and throughout the world.

•   Provide RESEARCH, training, teaching and service-learning opportunities for students at all levels.

VISION

The overall vision of PEP is to support learning and teaching as practices of freedom. It is committed to:

* developing education to be accessed as a means toward global, local, and personal liberation;

* creating critical spaces in the educational system and in the community where students and teachers study the struggles and survival stories of Filipina/os in the United States and throughout the world; and

* promoting and advocating for services, social justice, and self-determination

IMPACT
Along with providing ethnic studies for public schools students in San Francisco, PEP has also produced many teachers and educators, many of which went on to pursue masters and doctorates throughout the nation.

OBJECTIVES

➢    address the lack of Filipina/o American curriculum

➢    address the lack of Filipina/o American teachers

➢    connect the university to the community

➢    promote service-learning

➢    provide practical and creative training to future educators

➢    provide services for youth and students to reach their potential and pursue their goals

➢    develop and implement a critical pedagogy which includes a critical and cultural curriculum that focuses on Filipina/o American Studies

TEACHING PHILOSOPHIES

PEP practices teaching philosophies that include:

•    epistemological pedagogy
•    visual arts/media literacy
•    barangay/bayanihan pedagogy
•    critical performance pedagogy
•    social justice education
•    dialogical/interactive pedagogy
•    service learning and learning service
•    counterstorytelling
•    critical race pedagogy
•    decolonizing pedagogy

PEP practices these pedagogies by implementing an engaging and critical cultural curriculum that focuses on Filipina/o American studies (including introducing the students to Filipina/o literature, dancing and the arts), one-on-one mentoring, college counseling, and critical leadership/self-determination training. Along with our programmatic goals to teach and serve youth, PEP is a space where teachers, students, community, and scholars can collaborate to develop and study critical Filipina/o American studies, curriculum, and research.