Valli Chadwick 1A
vchadwick@allsaintsparish.com

I love teaching first grade at All Saints!

I truly love children and enthusiastically embrace the challenges of early childhood education. I believe in positive reinforcement and creating an inclusive community in the classroom that encourages children to learn and explore in a safe, nurturing, and inviting environment. Emergent learners need visual stimulation to further enthusiasm for learning and a literacy-rich environment to support the development of reading comprehension and fluency connections. I believe that the classroom experience should provide a predictable structure for effective growth and inventive strategies to ignite student initiative to learn and embrace new ideas.

I grew up in Tacoma and graduated from Bellarmine. I attended the University of Washington and received my BA in Art History. I returned to school and received my Master in Education from City University. I have taught at All Saints School since 2004.

I have owned and operated a picture framing business in Tacoma for 18 years. I am artistic and fairly good at working with my hands. I have two teenage children, Haley and Benjamin. I love going to art museums, browsing for antiques, and spending time with my family and friends. I have a grateful heart and a good work ethic. I am so happy to be a part of All Saints elementary school and truly feel privileged and blessed to be a first grade teacher.