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HEAD TEACHER & DIRECTOR

MA in Teaching (Seattle University) state-certified K-8, secondary endorsed in Social Studies

Member; American Montessori Society

"I've lived in Carnation since 2001. I’ve raised my four daughters here. I love this place. I'm very active in local government where I served on Planning Board for two years. I currently serve on the Carnation Farmer's Market board as treasurer, where Tolt Montessori is a sponsor. You can find me volunteering there on Tuesdays during market season. I'm also a visual artist and local singer-songwriter.

In 1990 I started as an infant, toddler, then preschool assistant at Pacific First Montessori in Seattle. I worked my way through college as a nanny. After my MA was complete, I co-founded a Montessori school called The Village Schoolhouse in Issaquah. Nine years later I left the pre/k classroom to teach 5th grade at a parochial school where my girls were attending. Five years later I reconnected with The Village Schoolhouse and founded a non-profit called the Village Schoolhouse Academy which was a small K-8 alternative school. The Academy was a one-room schoolhouse of around 16 students that varied widely in age and profile. In the Spring of 2022, I returned to the Montessori classroom where I started! I'm overjoyed to put deeper roots down in my hometown and thrilled to be working in Early Childhood Education again".