{"id":19,"date":"2013-09-21T01:38:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T01:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frank-ed.com\/blog\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2018-01-14T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T02:00:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-18091549-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); \/\/ ]]><\/script><!--?php include_once(\"analyticstracking.php\") ?--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/friendshiphotel-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"friendshiphotel\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/friendshiphotel-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/friendshiphotel-768x814.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/friendshiphotel.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have been working in the fields of international education, English language teaching, and teacher training for more than 25 years, and have actively pursued my interests in education, linguistics, and language acquisition\/learning. Working\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasadena.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pasadena City College<\/a> from 1991 to 2018, I served as a professor of English as a Second Language and Linguistics, as well as the Coordinator of the ESL Program, the Director of the International Student Pathway and the Associate Dean for International Education. I greatly enjoy working in the field of International Education, and I look forward to developing educational partnerships in China and other parts of the world. Besides my professional interests, I enjoy exploring food, listening to music (especially jazz, folk, and classical),\u00a0writing poetry, cooking, and connecting with nature. I am an eclectic reader (or listener) with favorite\u00a0reads\u00a0ranging from Parker Palmer, to Neil Gaiman, to Haruki Marukami, to Malcolm Gladwell. For me, life is about growth and change\u00a0to be\u00a0navigated with reflection and gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I have been working in the fields of international education, English language teaching, and teacher training for more than 25 years, and have actively pursued my interests in education, linguistics, and language acquisition\/learning. Working\u00a0at Pasadena City College from 1991 to 2018, I served as a professor of English as a Second Language and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frank-ed.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}