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 Teacher returns with former students from Mexico by Dawn Ford
The last time Elementary Education instructor Bev Kula and her former student Kim Herr ('05 BEd) reunited on campus was two years ago during an April snow storm that delighted Herr's group of sixth grade students from Mexico. For the second time, a group of sixth graders from Colegio Vancouver in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is on campus. But these students are special in that they were the first students Herr taught in Puerta Vallarta. At the time, they were in grade three. They were in grade three when she first taught them in Mexico. Herr credits Kula for getting her through that first year. "She was $300 of my $400 phone bill every month," says Herr. "She helped with classroom management, ideas, inclusion, connections - all of the above. She's multi-purpose." "Kim and I have a connection that goes back to when she was in my classroom," says Bev whose own group of math/science students are celebrating their last day of classes, and for most of them their last day of their degree, by doing math activities with their young guests from Mexico. Normally, students from Colegio Vancouver take a trip north to the school's namesake in British Columbia, but Herr's stories about Kula and her unique teaching styles had them wanting to come east to Edmonton and University of Alberta Campus. "They wanted to come and meet Bev who I have talked so much about. She has been there for me through everything ~ my student teaching, classroom teaching, my wedding, my babyshower," says Herr who brought her two month old son Owen to meet Kula and her group of Elementary Education students. The bilingual students from Mexico are here to practice their English and get a taste of Alberta culture.
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