LuPaulette Young Taylor

LuPaulette Young Taylor, Ed. D., is an educator in Oakland Unified School District and has a fifty-four year career in West Oakland schools, which includes her alma maters,Presscott Elementary, Lowell Jr. High (West Oakland Middle School) and McClymonds High School. Upon high school graduation, she attended California Lutheran University for her B. A. and then entered the University of California, Berkeley, to earn her teaching credential. She returned to Holy Names University for her Masters in Reading, and later, the University of San Francisco and Lincoln University for a doctorate in Critical Thinking and Leadership. She has taught at McClymonds High School the last fifty years.

During her tenure, she has taught English, history-social science, entrepreneurship, journalism, AVID, and physical education. Her coaching duties have included volleyball, softball, basketball, badminton, and cheerleading. She has served as an administrator on several occasions, but has returned to her first love, the classroom, where one of her guiding tenets is, “Use what you know to learn what you don’t know!” She has also taught new teachers in teacher education programs at several local universities and conducted workshops for the College Board and the University of San Francisco in several states. She is a life-long learner and nurtures this thirst for knowledge in her students by bringing words to life and connecting them to the real world.

Professional memberships in California Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of English, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), National Association of Black School Educators (NABSE), National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and California Business Educators enable her to keep abreast of best practices that benefit students.