Mrs. Culverwell

My family and I have lived in the Snoqualmie Valley for more than a decade and we love it here. Prior to that, we lived in Bellevue, Issaquah and, for a short time, near Princeton, NJ. My path to teaching is a circuitous one. As the child of two public school teachers, I grew up overseas, mostly on islands in the central Pacific Ocean - in Samoa and Micronesia. I attended The Evergreen State College where I earned B.A. in Art and B.S. in Microbiology & Biochemistry. Afterwards, I studied the mechanisms of autoimmune disease in immunology research at the Benaroya Diabetes Institute and at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. I studied medicine at the University of Washington Medical School before some health issues took me down a different path. I completed additional coursework in teacher education and worked at the Gottman Institute and in an early literacy research project, the Parent-Child Home Program. I love science, teaching, the outdoors and spending time with my family and our two little dogs, Sunshine & Frankie.