The Voice of East Bay Living

I recently talked with my dear friend Emily Blossom who is a first grade teacher at Sylvia Mendez, a Spanish dual immersion public school in Berkeley. What she told me was so compelling that I decided to record our conversation. Emily is one of those workers on the frontlines who deserve so much credit teaching remotely for close to a year. Emily talks about the challenges and the joys of her experience teaching this year. The most important thing, she says, is to find our common humanity and laugh when we can, during these incredibly hard times. Emily Blossom, First Grade Teacher at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley. You can watch more interviews of friends and relatives who matter in the Bay Area about how they have been handling life during covid, and what keeps them going.

I attended a luncheon this week in Berkeley to help support Music in the Schools .  Since 1992 Berkeley Symphony in partnership with the Berkeley Unified School District has provided music to over 4,200 elementary students in all the Berkeley public schools. The classes are free of charge for all children and classes include hands on music instruction and performance training.