PSCS Co-administrative Directors
Valerie | Director of Program
Tim | Director of Operations & Registrar
Sieglinde Director of Community Engagement & Admissions
Hey there!
At PSCS, our staff work hard to support young people (and each other) to develop and hone strategies to parse important facts from opinions and the truth from fiction; to think critically and to connect history to our current reality; to understand more and less traditional academics within the context of equity, access, and systems—and how making these connections may serve our individual goals as well as the goals of a larger community, and ultimately bring us each closer to a more empathetic and compassionate future.
Together, PSCS staff and student facilitators, guide deeper embodiment of learning, and foster the "soft" skills most often undervalued and de-prioritized in American education: collaboration, empathy, boundaries, consent, restoration, transformation, community-building, mutual aid, joy, rest, and creativity.
We meet every student where they're at and model intentional collaboration every day. As PSCS' three collaborative administrative Directors, we are transparent, honest, and committed to sending young people out in the world who can advocate for themselves and others, who forge their own paths (and acknowledge the footsteps they walk in), and who embrace the dignity and humanity of all people.
The PSCS logo, a möbius strip fashioned into a heart, is a continuous surface with intentional boundaries; an unending loop that connects itself to all existing possibilities. This represents for us the individual perspectives, needs, and desires of each one of us, as well as the collective priorities of the community, of humanity—infinitely intertwined with no true beginning or end.
Teach solidarity.