Meet the Team

Dedicated & Experienced

Our professional faculty members are highly qualified early childhood educators with extensive training and experience.

Lead Teachers have a degree in Early Childhood Education or a related field and have a combination of training and experience.
Teacher assistants have a Child Development Associate Degree or similar credentials or have experience in an early childhood setting.
Collectively our teachers have over 50 years of early childhood education experience.

Administration

Kristen Blue

Director

“If it hasn’t been in the hand, or in the body, it can’t be in the brain.” – Bev Boss

Educators

Doug van der Deen

Twos Lead Teacher

“I like to think I am changing the world, thirteen people at a time.” - Teacher Doug

Gina Hupton

Twos Assistant Teacher

“Flowers may bloom again, but a person never has a chance to be young again.” – From the Bluey episode – “Takeaway”

Bob Davis

Threes Lead Teacher

“You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran

Mary Pitblado

Threes Assistant Teacher

“Our challenge is not to prepare children for school, but to prepare schools for children.” – Docia Zavitskovksy

Katherine McCowan

Pre-K Lead Teacher

“Play is the highest form of research” – Albert Einstein

Runa Bianchi

Pre-K Assistant Teacher

“You can’t teach creativity, all you can do is let it blossom, and it blossoms in play.” – Kyung-Hel Kim

Heidi-Jo Klingman

"What we learn with joy, we never forget." - Sanghamitra Bhattacharya

Biography

Pre-K Assistant Teacher

Jeffrey Sadow

Music & PE

"Learning never ends no matter how old you are!" - Teacher Jeffrey