Candidate for
Board Member; Windsor Unified School District

What Heather Cullen brings to our school district

Energy for keeping up with the issues that face our district, well founded experience in education and research, caring for our children, and vision for a wise future are some of the qualities I bring to education in Windsor. I love children and support quality programs that improve teacher development and student progress. Parents have a right to individual classroom curriculum information, should have a say in their child's education and need to be involved. I feel I am very connected to what the children and parents in our community need in Windsor schools. I am motivated by my desire to serve in the community and to improve K-12 education in Windsor by attracting the best teachers, administrators and staff. I am well organized and have a lot of energy. I care about the Windsor schools because they are doing a good job for my family. My election will help Windsor School District to continue to do a good job for all families in Windsor.

What Heather Cullen is doing now

At present I teach elementary music (voice, percussion, and recorders) at Alexander Valley School in Healdsburg and volunteer teaching in the beginning strings class for Mrs. Vandeventer at Windsor Middle School. I am the director of the Healdsburg/Windsor Children's community choir, the 4H Choir Project, and my local church choir. I tutor Math, Science, Reading and Writing to elementary through college aged students. I teach private piano and beginning violin lessons. My husband and I have three children in the Windsor School District and another child entering next year.

Heather Cullen's historical experience

I hold a multiple subject credential from Dominican University (Ukiah ) and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. I started my career as a research chemist developing medical and military technology for the Department of Energy. I was then hired by DOW chemical as a research scientist. I met my husband working for a private environmental engineering firm that specialized in river restoration. I started teaching school when we began our family. I taught severely handicapped students at Diablo View Middle School in Clayton, CA then started a private home school for struggling junior high and high school students in Concord. (ADHD, disgraphia, LD, Autism, depression, drug dependant, gang related problems, etc.). I was vice president on the development board for Eagle Peak Montessori Charter School in Concord (1st-6th grade) for two years. I have taught English classes to French students in Concord. I have taught all the grades from pre-K to 12th. My family moved to Sonoma County when my husband accepted a job offer as an engineer for the state.