Gabriella Soqui is a Site Manager/ Support Coach for San Francisco State University’s Jumpstart Program. Gabriella coaches’ undergraduate students who are working in Title V preschools. She is currently working towards her Master’s in Early Childhood Education and her thesis focuses on ECE Educators Professional Growth and Development through the Utilization of Learning Stories. Gabriella has worked as a Lead Teacher and helped to open new toddler/twos programs for various preschool centers. She is also the facilitator of the Online Learning Stories Inquiry Group.
Gabriella is passionate about Learning Stories and the holistic strengths-based lens in which Learning Stories view children. She utilizes Learning Stories as a way for her undergraduate students to highlight their preschool students as well as to assess the undergraduate students growth and development in their teaching practice.