 | Lillie Pang, Minneapolis Division
 | | Lillie Pang, principal of Longfellow Community School, Minneapolis |
Educational philosophy: “Give me a fish, I eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I eat for a lifetime.” I believe the way out of poverty for many of our students is education. Students need skills, not handouts, to succeed. As educators we provide students the skills to become learners who comprehend, question, analyze, judge, and synthesize. Our students need to be supported and challenged at all levels of learning.
Among her most significant career achievements, Pang notes:
“I provided literacy training for colleagues in the 4MAT system of teaching to learning styles with right/left mode techniques in Tokyo, Japan. It was a privilege to share my knowledge with my peers."
“In the late 1980s, as Religion Department chair at a Catholic high school in Chicago, I was able to institute a school-wide AIDs education program. It was no small feat to persuade school administration of the need to have students educated in AIDs awareness and prevention.”
“Connecting Longfellow School with community agencies is a highpoint of my career. We built a network of social service agencies, language services, and mental health providers to meet monthly to discuss the needs of students and to brainstorm resources that we could tap into for our students and their families. This was our way of putting the theory of Dr. James Comer from Yale University into action; his School Development Program is committed to the total development of all children by creating learning environments that support children's physical, cognitive, psychological, language, social, and ethical development.”
Other recognitions: MESPA division president-elect and president; Elementary Principals Action Committee representative.
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