Barriers to Bridges

"Find Your Voice” with Melissa Bako

Episode Summary

In this episode we learn the story of how Dr. Melissa Bako came to be a leader in public education and social emotional learning in our district. Dr. Melissa Bako is an assistant principal at a large comprehensive high school in Corona Norco Unified School District. She has served the educational community as a softball and basketball coach, a social science and special education teacher, an athletic director, and a high school assistant principal.

Episode Notes

Topics of discussion in this episode: 

• Leadership lessons she learned throughout her story
• Growing up in Michigan 
• How her love for coaching brought her to the field of education
• Moving to California and the surprising opportunity of Athletic Director at a new High School
• Experiencing the death of her Dad and how that changed her
• All the challenges of being a new assistant principal and being moved to a new school 
• Finding her voice and passion in Social Emotional Learning with students and staff on her campus

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