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Cynthia Eagleton
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Bio
An alum of UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University, Cynthia Eagleton worked at San Mateo Adult School for more than 23 years. She was classroom teacher for ESL and then piloted and continued early iterations of innovative classes in online writing, distance learning, CBET, and classes connecting students to ESL learning through handheld devices (nearly 20 years before the pandemic). She also taught Parent Education, Childcare Provider Training, Memoirs and Arts-focused Day Program for Older Adults.
Cynthia supported student leadership as the Green Team Co-Founder and Advisor and was also the Student Council Advisor for their Evening ESL Program. She served on several committees, such as the Equity and Anti-Bias Committee, Technology, Website and Marketing, Teachers Union CFT Local 4681 as Secretary, Vice President and Representative on the CFT statewide Adult Ed Committee.
Cynthia has truly valued the need to be inclusive of all students and worked to make all aspects of education available to all students. This included students with disabilities ranging from visual impairment to low literacy levels to cultural barriers. She was the Queen of "But what about this student?" in discussions of website accessibility and curriculum planning. An important part of Cynthia's teaching related to the social emotional learning aspect of education, an often ignored aspect of Adult Education due to resource restraints and which has only recently been accorded its due in K-12 circles. Long before they were buzz words, she talked about access, accessibility, and equity for Adult Ed students and was just as passionate about teaching students how to advocate for themselves. She was great at connecting all parts of the education system as well as the community. She brought the connections she made at Immigrant Integration Forums, high school Black Parents groups, local legislators meetings, and more to the school planning process and made vast connections within each community partnerships available to the school.
ESL Program Coordinator at San Mateo, Lisa Sparks noted that Tim Doyle and Bob Harper, former legendary leaders and advocates in Adult Ed and both great admirers of Cynthia's noted this about her advocacy work:
"I remember sitting in some legislator's office with Dawn Koepke and Joanne Durkee and the staffer mentioned having received communication from Cynthia. Her name was raised during the AB227 Immigrant Integration work. Her blog was something even Dawn talked about with appreciation. Dawn communicated directly with Cynthia - partially because of the bridge to CFT and its potential to support what CCAE and CAEAA were trying to do."
An alum of UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University, Cynthia Eagleton worked at San Mateo Adult School for more than 23 years. She was classroom teacher for ESL and then piloted and continued early iterations of innovative classes in online writing, distance learning, CBET, and classes connecting students to ESL learning through handheld devices (nearly 20 years before the pandemic). She also taught Parent Education, Childcare Provider Training, Memoirs and Arts-focused Day Program for Older Adults.
Cynthia supported student leadership as the Green Team Co-Founder and Advisor and was also the Student Council Advisor for their Evening ESL Program. She served on several committees, such as the Equity and Anti-Bias Committee, Technology, Website and Marketing, Teachers Union CFT Local 4681 as Secretary, Vice President and Representative on the CFT statewide Adult Ed Committee.
Cynthia has truly valued the need to be inclusive of all students and worked to make all aspects of education available to all students. This included students with disabilities ranging from visual impairment to low literacy levels to cultural barriers. She was the Queen of "But what about this student?" in discussions of website accessibility and curriculum planning. An important part of Cynthia's teaching related to the social emotional learning aspect of education, an often ignored aspect of Adult Education due to resource restraints and which has only recently been accorded its due in K-12 circles. Long before they were buzz words, she talked about access, accessibility, and equity for Adult Ed students and was just as passionate about teaching students how to advocate for themselves. She was great at connecting all parts of the education system as well as the community. She brought the connections she made at Immigrant Integration Forums, high school Black Parents groups, local legislators meetings, and more to the school planning process and made vast connections within each community partnerships available to the school.
ESL Program Coordinator at San Mateo, Lisa Sparks noted that Tim Doyle and Bob Harper, former legendary leaders and advocates in Adult Ed and both great admirers of Cynthia's noted this about her advocacy work:
"I remember sitting in some legislator's office with Dawn Koepke and Joanne Durkee and the staffer mentioned having received communication from Cynthia. Her name was raised during the AB227 Immigrant Integration work. Her blog was something even Dawn talked about with appreciation. Dawn communicated directly with Cynthia - partially because of the bridge to CFT and its potential to support what CCAE and CAEAA were trying to do."
