MULBERRY ROOM STAFF
- Miss Katie Meccariello
How long have you been with Children First: Started over the summer 2017
What is your DEEC Certificate: Director II
What is your role at CF: Lead Toddler Teacher
Favorite Quote: “I am the one thing in like I can control, I am inimitable, I am an original” -Lin Manual Miranda
Favorite Book: Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (Adult)
Ferdinand the Bull (Child)
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Become a Team Leader
BIRCH ROOM STAFF
Miss Samantha Cole
How long have you been with Children First: 4 years
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What is your DEEC Certificate: Lead Preschool Teacher
What is your role at CF: Lead Lead Teacher in Birch
Favorite Quote: “The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”
Favorite Book: Today I feel silly
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: To be a part of the admin team
Lynne Sullivan
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Miss Elizabeth Brisebois
How long have you been with Children First: 3 years
What is your DEEC Certificate: Teacher
What is your role at CF: School Age Coordinator & Preschool Teacher
Favorite Quote: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better! It’s Not” -Dr. Seuss :The Lorax-
Favorite Book: Oh Say Can You Say – Dr. Seuss
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Become Lead Teacher Certified
Miss Haley Lukasik
How long have you been with Children First: 3 years
What is your DEEC Certificate: Teacher
What is your role at CF: Because I am a student, I have become a strong opener and closer of the building. I make sure forms are signed, and I am the one who communicates what happened during the day to parents.
Favorite Quote: “Just keep swimming” -Dori-
Favorite Book: The Great Gatsby
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: To continue to grow and to positively impact the community more than we already do.
Miss. Kacie Pitts
How long have you been with Children First: 1.5 Years
What is your role at CF: Teacher’s assistant in the Birch Room.
Favorite Quote: ” There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live” – Dalai Lama
Favorite Book: The Freedom Writers Diary
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Continue to make Children First a place where parents can trust that their children will be safe, loved and cared for.
HICKORY ROOM STAFF
Miss Nadine Goodhind
How long have you been with Children First: 8 years
What is your DEEC Certificate: Teacher Certified
What is your role at CF: Hickory Room Teacher
Favorite Quote: “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, we should teach the way they learn.”
Favorite Book: Reiterhof Dreililien
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Become Lead Teacher certified and move towards Administration.
Miss Karen Kingsley Plasse
How long have you been with Children First: Since August 2017
What is your role at CF: Hickory Teacher
Favorite Quote: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washingston
“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a child.” – Forest E. Witcraft
Favorite Book: Children’s Book – The Paper Bay Princess – Robert Munsch
Adult Book – Needful Things – Stephen King
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: To take on/learn more admin duties and implement a yoga program. I would also like to bring more emergent curriculum into the pregram.
Miss Meaghan Mahan
How long have you been with Children First: Since Nov 2016
What is your DEEC Certificate: Preschool Teacher
What is your role at CF: Teacher Support
Favorite Quote: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” – Christopher Robin
Favorite Book: (So Many!) The Mitten by: Jan Brett
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: I would love to grow a full circle food program where children are invited to take an active role in their food experiences. Starting from a seed, exploring the growth and preparations of the food, and then dealing with the waste responsibly. I am excited to have Children First resources at my hands and to continue to grow and learn.
MAPLE ROOM STAFF
- Miss Kimberly Marsh
How long have you been with Children First: 16 Years
What is your role at CF: Pre- Coordinator
Favorite Quote: “Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – and sings the tune without the words – and never stops – AT ALL. -Emily Dickinson
Favorite Book: Acheron By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: To get greater as we get bigger!
- Miss Christie Sicard
How long have you been with Children First: I started in 1999, but took a break to get married and have children. I came back in 2006.
What is your DEEC Certificate: Lead Teacher
What is your role at CF: Lead Teacher in the Maple Room, Librarian
Favorite Quote: “You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” – Alice, from Alice in Wonderland
Favorite Book: Alice in Wonderland
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Become experianced in the Montessori and Reggio Emilia approaches and practice them more in my Pre-K classroom with a focus on social emotional development as well as academics.
KINDERGARTEN
Miss Erica Pease
How long have you been with Children First: 13 years
What is your DEEC Certificate: Director II
What is your role at CF: Kindergarten Teacher
Favorite Quote: “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” -Tinkerbell-
Favorite Book: The Hobbit
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Move Forward on expansion 2. Design an amazing space for school ages children that allows them to use their imagination and provokes learning in a way that is different from school.
Preschool Support
Miss Heather Cruz
How long have you been with Children First: 13 years
What is your DEEC Certificate: Director II
What is your role at CF: Office Administrator
Favorite Quote: “You’ve always had the power my Dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” Glinda – Wizard of Oz
Favorite Book: The mouse, The Strawberry & the Big Hungry Bear
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Help support families and create a staffing board.
Miss Donna Lee Poli
How long have you been with Children First: 1 year
What is your DEEC Certificate: Teacher’s aide/ assistant
What is your role at CF: I work at the before school program with the school agers, and I also work in the afternoons with the preschool children. Because my own grandchildren are a bit of a drive from me, working at CF allows me to be a grandmother figure for all the children here.
Favorite Quote: “It is what it is”
Favorite Book: The Nightingale By: Kristin Hannah
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: To learn and grow with the children and my co-workers. Most important to me personally is to have FUN and love my job. Continue to nurture and teach children how to interact with other kids and teachers. Manners and respect.
Miss McKenzie Wilson
How long have you been with Children First: 8 Months
What is your DEEC Certificate: Teacher
What is your role at CF: Teacher (Pre) & Group Leader (School Age)
Favorite Quote: “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “Happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
Favorite Book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People By – Stephen R Covey
What is your 5 year Children First Goal: Become a Lead Teacher and have my own classroom in Pre or Kindergarten. And to keep learning and growing as a teacher
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Jayde Thomas
