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Interview # 3: Ash Saucedo
French philosopher and writer Marcel Proust was known for his witty answers to a series of intriguing questions, now known as the Proust Questionnaire. To learn more about our teachers in a unique way, the TC 5th graders took on the challenge of creating their own set of interview questions.
For this issue we had the honor of interviewing one of our Special Education Teachers: Ash Saucedo.
Background
The Interview Squad recently interviewed Ash Saucedo, a wonderful Special Education teacher at our school! Ash works with the 4th and 5th grade Distinct students at Thornton Creek. Ash was born and raised in Los Angeles, California with two siblings, Ash being the middle child. Ash’s parents divorced when she was 17 yet the whole family still remains close. Ash’s favorite food is frijoles but not just any old frijoles, her abuela’s frijoles. Ash’s favorite movie is the 1990 musical comedy Cry-Baby directed by John Waters, and her favorite book from childhood is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cineros. It was the first time she saw herself reflected in the characters in any book, the first time she was reading about another young girl’s experiences as a Mexican American kid. Ash’s favorite color is purple and her favorite animal is a dog. She even owns a Boston terrier named Eleanor. Did you know Ash was born on Friday the 13th, and the number 13 has been lucky to her ever since. One of Ash’s favorite things to do is camping, because she loves being outdoors, and she also loves swimming. Her favorite part of Thornton Creek is the students who go here. Ash’s super-power is her ADHD. It has both challenged her and made her a more creative thinker and, according to her, it’s all about perspective! We love having Ash at our school and want to thank her for her time for the interview!
Interview Questions
If you could meet anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why?
I think I would like to meet my great-great-great grandmother just so I could find out a little more just what life was like for her and our family. I would want to go back to meet some of my ancestors.
What is the hardest thing you have ever done?
The hardest thing I’ve ever done is come back to school. I was a high school drop-out and it was a hard thing to come back and go to college and get my degree. That was really challenging for me.
If you could choose another job besides teaching, what would it be and why?
I would still want to work with kids. I love working with kids. I think I would like to do some social work in the capacity of still working with kids. I think that would be fun.
What did you want to be when you were in 5th grade? Why?
I always wanted to be a teacher. I always have thought about teaching. But it was kind of a scary thing for me as well because I wasn’t sure how to get it accomplished. No one in my family had ever been a teacher or had even gone to college. So to me that was a really intimidating thing, and something that for a long time I didn’t think I could do. But it wasn’t until I went back to school that I saw it as a possibility. I just knew that I always wanted to be a teacher in one way or another.
What is the best thing you ever learned from a student?
That mistakes are OK and are a part of how we learn in our life. That is something that I learned early on from a student – we’re all going to make mistakes and it’s OK.
Respectfully submitted,
Thornton Creek Interview Squad
Sitara Feris
Hana Lu
Sevrine Molamba
Cora Taggart
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