Chicken Farmer to Professor...

A book project sample, thoughts, and similar notes

I am a professor at Fresno Pacific University in Fresno California however I was a chicken ranch worker with my family in the agricultural rich San Joaquin Valley of California as a boy. How did a chicken ranch worker journey to a professor of higher education you might ask, well, at an attempt to chronicle how the public school formed my educational journey I write these notes for you on a plate with beans and rice. Read this lived experience with an open heart, buckle your safety belt, and enjoy the ride. You will see the ups and downs on the educational pathway at times almost stopping then picking back up at turtle speed.  

Who is going to read this book some one asked me one time? I responded with a very general answer. Maybe the elementary student who walks to school on a foggy day near the Sierra Nevada mountains. Potentially the teacher who commutes on the 41, 99, 180, or the 168 freeways that are like veins throughout the Central Valley near almond orchards, grape vineyards, citric ever greens. Even further than that this may fall into a college student’s lap at the library, school café, or a coffee shop some place between grapes and peaches.

Overall, the chronicles are for you any willing reader who attended a public school or a person who attended a private school and wants to peek into what things may have been like at the public school. A far reach, this book is for the university professor who is looking to find a story of one lived experience of an educator from an urban and rural community network and how the education map formed their philosophy. A good idea for their students enrolled in a course of poetry, education, philosophy, ethics, and reading an assignment for extra credit would work out too.