Village Charter School

Shilpa Kamat majored in English Literature at Carleton College (Northfield, MN) and earned her Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential with a CLAD emphasis from the New College of California (San Francisco, CA). She is also a certified yoga teacher through Seven Centers Yoga Arts (Sedona, AZ) and integrates the study and practice of yoga into her curriculum. Before she came to the Village Charter School, she taught third grade in East Oakland and middle school Peer Resources classes in San Francisco, which involved developing peer conflict mediation and peer tutoring programs, teaching leadership skills, and developing service learning projects for seventh and eighth grade youth. Shilpa's passions include poetry and literature, nature, dance, yoga, multicultural studies, rekindling mythic imagination, developing global awareness, and exploring the power of collective consciousness. » read more...

Shilpa's class took a trip to Green Valley Village outside of Sebastopol where they planted seeds, fed animals and enjoyed the outdoors. » read more...

Students in Shipa's class read to students in Mrs. Buckles' kindergarten. » read more...

Shilo Ranch Regional Park is one of many locations where our class takes weekly hikes (weather permitting). » read more...