At 9:00 a.m., the overhead lights are off, the only light coming from the natural Southern California sunshine through our side and overhead windows. Calm instrumental music strums in the background. “This is from Encanto!” Reem (all names are...
Chelsea Arens
Chelsea Arens served as a kindergarten early literacy intervention teacher, second grade classroom teacher, K–3 instructional coach, and mild/moderate intervention specialist in Title I schools in Ohio for 13 years before moving to Southern California. She has been a preschool student support coordinator and now teaches kindergarten in a small private school tucked in the canyon of Laguna Beach. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in education at Capital University and her Master of Arts degree in education at Colorado College. Chelsea is passionate about empowering her community of young learners, as well as her own two children, to celebrate their beautiful brains and sensory systems.