Today’s candidate as Culver City’s No. 1 one-armed paper hanger is the outgoing President of the School Board.
He teaches high school by day, is hip-high in politics on a daily basis, as he has been since the age of 10, and now he attends school in his off-hours.
Karlo Silbiger surely is one of the busiest persons in town.
In pursuit of his doctorate in education, via the educational leadership program at UCLA, he became a student again three months ago.
On his three-year journey, he is enrolled in three classes for the soon-to-end fall quarter. “This year and next year we do our course work, and then we have a year to do our dissertation,” he says.
“We are trying to grapple with an incredible amount of information around two major topics.
“What are the best ways to lead large organizations?
“The second is, What are some of the major topics of research that have been done in what is called the educational enterprise, as a whole?
“And then, How do you effectively write in academia?”
Mr. Silbiger drives to Westwood twice weekly for classes, four hours on Wednesdays, four to eight hours on Saturdays.
He earns his living at a Green Dot charter school, a full load, six classes per semester, leading a college-readiness course for 11th and 12th graders.
Mr. Silbiger also teaches AP American government and, one of his passions, music.
“I never can decide what my real passion is,” he says. “I love teaching government, social studies, economics, music. But I also really enjoy the college stuff now.”
No matter how much he has to massage and adjust his schedule, Mr. Silbiger has still another love that he will not give up, the theatre, attending plays.
Everyone who knows the budding politician, former president of the Culver City Democratic Club, could guess that plays with a social-political theme are his first choice, especially at the Mark Taper Forum downtown.
