Kindergarten

Ms. Homayoun, Kindergarten teacher

Shohreh Homayoun has been teaching for 18 years, with the past five years at Brent. She holds a B.A. in early childhood education and recently earned her master’s degree in educational transformation from George Mason University. She lived in Iran, England and France before moving to the United States in 1982. She loves architecture, music, ceramics and anything to do with culture and the arts, and was attracted to Brent’s museum program. “I love teaching through the arts and sciences, and I like perfecting my teaching with every year I teach,” she says. “I believe that children are true artists and their natural curiosity about everything around them also makes them natural scientists.” Last year, Ms. Homayoun’s kindergarten students wrote a play that was performed at the Kennedy Center, and she and Ms. Copeland directed Brent’s first school-wide play, Alice in Wonderland

grades: pk3 | pk4 | k | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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Ms. Copeland, Kindergarten teacher

Ms.  Copeland has been an educator for 14 years, and has been teaching at Brent since 1999. She received her bachelor of arts degree in early childhood education from Lynchburg College and has gained rich experiences from professional development classes that target differentiated instruction, art integration, and curriculum for gifted children. “Teaching is a highly rewarding profession,” she says. “It offers opportunities for educators to provide constant advancement of children and innovation to the forever-changing world of education. Teaching conveys many of my finest qualities, such as resourcefulness, impartiality, calmness, and wisdom.” Beyond the excitement of educating and mentoring, she has a strong interest in scrapbooking, easy meal cooking, black and white photography, abstract painting, dancing and theatrical performances. “I chose to work at Brent Elementary because I believed it would allow me an opportunity to prepare children to be competitive and productive citizens and influence community stakeholders to change the arena of education by cultivating strong parental involvement, utilizing technology, and mentoring teachers.

grades: pk3 | pk4 | k | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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