Double duty: Teaching by day, students by night
College offers master's degrees for those who want to stay ahead of the class
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Email this ArticleEdison High School business teacher Connie Castillo, center, is working on her graduate degree through the Teachers College of San Joaquin.CALIXTRO ROMIAS/The Record
STOCKTON - Mondays are long and busy for Connie Castillo. She awakens at 5:30 a.m., arrives at Edison High shortly after 7 and begins teaching her first class at the school's Academy of Finance and Information Technology before 7:30.
School ends at 2:15 p.m., and then, if she's lucky, there's enough time to stop somewhere for a quick bite. Otherwise, dinner might be an apple and a banana on her way to the San Joaquin County Office of Education, where her next class begins at 4 and doesn't end until 8:30.
But unlike her daytime classes, Castillo is a student at night, not a teacher. She's one of about 75 students, mainly teachers, working on master's degrees at Teachers College of San Joaquin.
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Teachers College of San Joaquin is enrolling students for its summer session. For more information, visit Teachers College's website at teacherscollegesj.org, or call (209) 468-9116.
"It's a college for teachers, from teachers and by teachers," Castillo said. "Every class is designed to help the teacher. It makes me a better teacher."
Teachers College, located in one of the buildings on the sprawling county office campus near Arch Road, is nearing the end of its first year of classes. It was established to provide teachers the opportunity to pursue master's