Meet the Teachers  at San Miguel Elementary (Lemon Grove, California)

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Alyssa Navapanich
Ms. Navapanich has a passion for teaching visual art. She has been teaching art for many years throughout San Diego county. Currently, she is the President of the California Art Education Association-San Diego (CAEA-SD). In 2020, she was named the Elementary Art Educator of the Year by CAEA and in 2021 was named the National Art Education Association Pacific Region Elementary Art Educator of the year.

In November 2021, CAEA recognised the program she designed for Lemon Grove as "a strong visual arts program, with exemplary use of a sequential curriculum that integrates multicultural processes that support the goals of CAEA and the art education profession."