Inspiring Quotes

"Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom"

"What is needed is that teachers transform their knowledge of the human being into a kind of higher instinct which enables them to respond rightly to whatever comes from each individual child."

 "Our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings who are of themselves able to impart purpose and direction in their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth and a feeling of responsibility- these three forces are the very nerve of education"

~Rudolf Steiner 

"Play is the work of the child"

"Within the child lies the fate of the future."

~Maria Montessori

"The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education." 

Barack Obama

Teaching Philosophies

I have an educational background in Environmental Education (which is also often known as: "place-based education"), Imaginative Education, Dialogue and Psychology. I employ a variety of teaching strategies in order to create a rich, wonder-full, play-based, child-centered learning environment. Lessons from nature, Reggio-Emilia, Montessori, and Waldorf all inform my teaching practice...