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| Kristin
Rao Co-Founder Academic Advisor  |
Kristin Rao has had over 25
years of experience in the classroom. She has taught students in all the grade
levels from Pre-Kindergarten through the Eighth Grade. Having graduated from a
Carden School herself, Mrs. Rao went on to open her own Carden School in the
Silicon Valley. She ran the school successfully until merging it with the Carden
El Encanto Day School in Santa Clara. Mrs. Rao is now the President and Vice
Principal at the Carden El Encanto Day School in Santa Clara. Under her care,
the school has grown and held firmly to the principles on which it was founded.
She is also an officer of the Carden Educational Foundation, based in
Connecticut. | |
| Marcia
McManus Co-Founder Advisor  |
Marcia McManus founded the
Carden El Encanto Day School in Santa Clara in 1973. Prior to founding the
school, she was the head administrator at the St. Andrews School in Santa Clara.
Mrs. McManus has worked tirelessly to bring the Carden method of education to as
many children as possible in the Silicon Valley. Students travel from Gilroy and
Menlo Park to attend the school she founded and administered for many years. The
success of her efforts are reflected in the 450 students enrolled in the school
and the waiting lists standing for every grade level. Mrs. McManus currently
acts as an advisor to the Santa Clara and Santa Cruz schools. She also serves as
Vice President of the Carden Educational Foundation, based in
Connecticut. | |
| Haydi
Danielson Co-Founder Director  |
Haydi Danielson attended
Viewpoint, a Carden School in Calabasas, California as a student in elementary
and junior high school. She went on to earn her BA in Geography from UCLA and
two master degrees from Yale University, in Public and Private Management and in
Forest Science. For fifteen years, Mrs. Danielson made her career in the field
of natural resource management, primarily in urban forestry. She has
participated in making public policy related to California's urban forest
management, and has worked as a high level manager in the wholesale plant
growing business. When her children reached school age, she was unable to find a
school that met her high standards for elementary education. In 1998, Mrs.
Danielson redirected her professional efforts and co-founded the Carden El
Encanto School in Santa Cruz. | |
| Dawn
Wetzel Teacher, First Grade  |
Dawn Wetzel moved to the Santa
Cruz area from her home in New York in August of last year. At the State
University of New York at New Paltz, she earned her Bachelors of Arts in
Communications. She is now working toward her Master of Arts Degree in Teaching
at Manhattanville College in New York.
Dawn Wetzel joins our staff having worked for one year at Main Street
Elementary School's Campus Kids Connection Program. There she was responsible
for the morning curriculum of Kindergarten students, before school care
activities for children five through twelve, and for administering grants for
low-income family participants. Please join us in welcoming Dawn Wetzel to our
faculty. | |
| Claudia
Stevens Teacher, Art  |
Claudia Stevens is a practicing
artist who has taught art to children since 1986 and has her Master's Degree in
Fine Art. She is a Resident Spectra teacher and teaches at several Santa Cruz
County public and private schools. Using the finest materials, she teaches
drawing, painting, and clay sculpture at the Carden School. Ms. Stevens
illustrates for Bantam Books, Harcourt and Brace Company, Rodale Press, Sunset,
and other publications. | |
| Gjon
Feinstein Teacher, Chess  |
Gjon Feinstein is a U.S.
National Chess Master and offers formal chess instruction in several public and
private schools in Santa Cruz County. He has organized county-wide and
inter-school chess tournaments in which he encourages his students to
participate. Gjon has been playing chess since 1972 and teaching since 1995. He
uses a building block approach to the teaching of chess, teaching with patience
and consistency. Gjon wants to share with his young students the idea that the
more you know about chess, the more you realize how much there is to learn.
Chess mirrors life in this respect.
We are thrilled that Gjon will be joining our faculty this year, bringing the
wonderful game of chess to our students. We are the first school in Santa Cruz
County to offer chess during school hours. Chess is a valuable tool for
developing critical thinking skills and the ability to visualize. The game
demands forethought, logic, math skills, and fosters creative thinking.
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| Joshua
Hathaway Teacher, Physical Education and After School Care provider  |
Joshua Hathaway has been an athlete all of his life. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Mr. Hathaway has participated in sports ranging from volleyball to kayaking, and continues to enjoy a lot of physical activity in his time off. Mr. Hathaway has taught swimming, kayaking and surfing to children. We are happy to help him to realize his dream of being an elementary school teacher. | |
| Marie
Hoffman Teacher, Second/Third Grades Combined  |
Marie Hoffman taught Third Grade at the South Valley Carden School before she moved to Santa Cruz in 2001. Mrs. Hoffman enjoyed a successful career as a quality systems specialist in the technology industry before making the decision to change direction and pursue a career teaching young children. In her spare time, Mrs. Hoffman is pursuing her Master's Degree in Education. | |
| Michele
Mendon Teacher, Fourth/Fifth Grades Combined  |
Michele Mendon moved to Santa Cruz from Joplin, Missouri, where she taught Fifth Grade for one year and Second Grade for one year. Ms. Mendon earned her B.S. in Elementary Education from Pittsburg State University in Kansas. Ms. Mendon is the daughter of school teachers. Her mother has been teaching children for 20 years and her father is presently the superintendent of schools in a small district in northern Missouri. | |
| Lori
Miller Teacher, Kindergarten  |
Lori Miller comes to us from Orange County, having moved to Aptos in 2001. Mrs. Miller will be co-teaching the Kindergarten class with Ms. Reymers. Mrs. Miller has been teaching pre-schoolers through kindergarteners since 1999, most recently at the Childbridge School in San Juan Capistrano. | |
| Roz
Reymers Teacher, Kindergarten |
Roz Reymers comes to us from the French American School of Silicon Valley, where she acted as the English Program Director for nine years. Prior to her tenure at FASSV, Ms. Reymers co-founded the Santa Cruz Community School, taught at Gateway School and at Gault Elementary School. Ms. Reymers is a specialist in reading and has extensive background in identifying and building programs for children with special learning needs. | |
| Elizabeth
Torres Teacher, Music  |
Elizabeth Torres graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a major in Music. She has been playing music since she was a young child. In high school, she was the drum major for her 300-person band. Now she teaches music and music theory to young people throughout Santa Cruz County. Ms. Torres is a saxophonist and looks forward to teaching our students to play instruments, in addition to training their voices and teaching them music theory and history. | |
| Kirsten
Wimp Teacher, French  |
Kirsten Wimp has returned to Carden with a bundle of plans for her French students: lessons, games, songs and literature. Madame Wimp earned her B.A. in Language Studies at UC Santa Cruz, majoring in French. She spent a quarter abroad in Nimes, France. Madame also speaks Spanish and German. | |
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