Emily Meng
Arts Teacher
Emily believes as stewards of planet earth it is our right and responsibility to collaborate, care for each other, and protect our one true home. As a long-term SEEQS teacher, Emily has poured her heart into educating our incredible students. She has been an integral part of creating and implementing positive supports for students and respectful classroom spaces. The art all over the school shows her high standards for student work and the classroom community. As an educator and advisor, Emily believes in creating calm, respectful, supportive learning environments that showcase student’s individuality and focus on the needs of the community. Students leave her class learning important life skills, high quality content, and community connections. Emily herself is a lifelong artist, K-8th teacher, and environmental steward. A teacher since 2007, Emily has spent her career educating students from Kindergarten through 8th grade in sustainability, art, K-8 general education and training new teachers. As a community volunteer tree-planter and crew leader with the non-profit, Friends of Trees, Emily was able to learn the value of a community working together to create lasting change through hard work, community connections and donuts. In her classroom Emily instills the value of “yet” in her students. They don’t have a ceiling. Middle schoolers can create professional quality work if encouraged, taught exceptional skills, and with practice and determination: never saying they can’t, but maybe they can’t yet, but one day they can and they will.
“The ability to draw depends on one’s desire to put in the time and effort, learning to see the way an artist sees.”
"I work at SEEQS because the earth is our one and only home! I am inspired by learners who grapple with environmental sustainability. Together we work to teach others, connect with our earth mother and truly take the time with her land. I work at SEEQS to raise a generation of beauty and love who bring their gifts to the world."