Christina Snailum

Assistant Teacher

Christina has been an elementary educator for more than a decade. She first became interested in pursuing education while teaching English to South Korean children for two summers in high school. She studied Anthropology and Psychology during her undergraduate years, then earned her MA in Elementary Education from Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL.

Eleven years later, she's happy to say her teaching experience has been incredibly diverse. Christina has taken on both part-time and full-time teaching roles for grades ranging from 1st to 6th. She has worked in private, charter, and public schools, spending half of her teaching career in gifted and talented classrooms. Christina returned to the PNW in 2020 and took some time off from classroom teaching, working mostly as a part-time online math tutor.

Christina enjoys collecting sea turtles in all shapes, sizes, and forms! She also enjoys playing the piano poorly and the acoustic guitar even more poorly, with hopes of one day learning to play the cello only somewhat poorly. A lifelong reader and writer, one of her dreams is to become a published author. Christina is looking forward to a great first year at Gardner School working with the Kalama and Pahto classrooms!