Intro

[Cynthia Stults]

Hello new Saturday/Monday Night Friends!

I'm Cynthia Stults and I currently teach 4th grade at Warner Avenue Elementary, just east of UCLA (lots of Bruin fans out there). Before teaching I worked in the performing arts, so I'm always looking for opportunities to integrate arts into the curriculum. Social studies and cultural learning are great opportunities for arts integration. In the last 3 years, all of my English Learners have been from China and Korea, as their parents come as visiting professors at UCLA or USC or come for advanced training from either school. I adore these kiddos, but I don't know a lot about their culture, and cultural norms, so I'm hoping that learning about their culture and heritage will help me find better ways to connect with them, and also bring some history and culture from their homelands into my classroom, so their classmates can get to know them better too.