Meet the Team
Dedicated & Experienced
Our professional faculty members are highly qualified early childhood educators with extensive training and experience.
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Lead Teachers have a degree in Early Childhood Education or a related field and have a combination of training and experience.
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Teacher assistants have a Child Development Associate Degree or similar credentials or have experience in an early childhood setting.
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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
Bob Davis
Threes Lead Teacher
“You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran
Gina Hupton
Three's Assistant Teacher
“Flowers may bloom again, but a person never has a chance to be young again.” – From the Bluey episode – “Takeaway”
Meghan Herlihy
PM Three's Assistant Teacher
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more things that you learn, the more places you'll go" -Dr. Seuss
Katherine McCowan
AM Pre-K Lead Teacher
“Play is the highest form of research” – Albert Einstein
Sarah Root
PM Pre-K Lead Teacher
"Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood" -Pablo Neruda
Mary Pitblado
Pre-K Assistant Teacher
“Our challenge is not to prepare children for school, but to prepare schools for children.” – Docia Zavitskovksy
