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About Cheryl

My name is Cheryl Warren. I have been married for over 25 years to Duane (who calls me Charly), and we have two children (both of them grown up). I have done a lot of different things in my life, and there is so much more I would like to do and see. For me, two of the very best things in life are learning and teaching.

I studied history and music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then studied some more to become a teacher. After graduate school, I taught in a small school district during the day, and in the evening I did musical comedy on the stage of the Alacama Theater in Santa Barbara. While I was teaching, I continued to study anything that interested me – like spinning and weaving and clothing design.

After moving to the Pacific Northwest with my family, I lived for a while in the mountains, worked as a fiberartist and began selling clothing and other items I made on my looms. I continued with my weaving for many years and eventually became president of the Seattle Weavers Guild. That was fun because I got to meet weavers and artists from all around the country; I even traveled to China and visited weavers there.

While all this was happening, I never really gave up teaching. In addition to teaching weaving to other people, I worked with several schoolbook publishing companies and began to teach teachers about teaching. Then I started working as a substitute teacher in different schools, teaching music and language arts. Finally I decided that I couldn't stay away from the classroom any longer, so I found a school program that allows me to explore new and interesting ways of teaching.

For the past five years I have been teaching a 4-5-6 combination class in the PACE (Parents Active in Children's Education) program at Woodmoor Elementary. Active parent involvement is one of the requirements for acceptance into the PACE program, so I always have other people helping in the classroom. This gives me the freedom to weave learning and teaching into one fabric, making it fun for me and my students. And that is what the Traveling Classroom project is all about.

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