Introduction

Welcome! My name is Kelly Vivanco, and I am graduating from Westmont College with my Multisubject Elementary Teaching Credential.

Before moving to California for college, I grew up in the mountainous metropolitan outskirts of Mexico City in a binational and multicultural family. At Westmont, I majored in Liberal Studies, Elementary Education, with a concentration in Performing Arts. I am passionate about including the arts in education, and I have always enjoyed writing prose and poetry as well as singing and participating in choirs. I have played the piano since age 7. I also enjoy swimming and running and grew up loving gymnastics and basketball.

 Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of observing and teaching in classrooms in Mexico, India, and the United States. Through my Westmont preprofessional and student teaching placements, I have gained experience in a 4th grade class in a Dual-Language Immersion charter school, a multilingual TK/Kindergarten combo class in a public school, and a 3rd grade class as well as an ELD third grade group for my full-time student teaching. My hope is for my students to discover a love of learning and to become lifelong learners full of curiosity and wonder about the world.