Brad Broberg, instructional aide, after care coordinator
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
– Thomas Jefferson
Dina Foss, lower school teacher
"Play is not a break from learning. It is endless, delightful, deep, engaging, practical learning. It’s the doorway into the child’s heart!"
– Vince Gowmon
Dirk Gorre, performing arts
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso
Dori Hale, assistant head of school
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
– Aristotle
Russell Kuhne, director of maintenance & facilities
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."
– Bill Nye
Kara Ku
tina, Spanish teacher
Angela Larsen, art specialist
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
– Rumi
Kelly Lynch, physical education
“You made this day a special day just by your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you and I like you just the way you are.”
– Fred Rogers
Jared MacKenzie, middle school teacher
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it."
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Jacey Mann, lower school teacher
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
– Benjamin Franklin
Mimi McGilliard, kindergarten teacher
"I will let them be little, fill their hearts with laughter, help them grow wings, nurture their sense of wonder, inspire them to believe and love them like there’s no tomorrow."
– Julie King
Josephine Monu, prekindergarten instructional aide
"Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service."
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Katy Moon, prekindergarten teacher
"Education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment."
– Maria Montessori
Samantha Moore, instructional aide
Taylor Riley, instructional aide
Annika Sante, middle school teacher
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
– John Dewey
Katyna Thiel, director of finance
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
– Robert Tew
Adina Whitcomb, administrative assistant
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
– Albert Einstein
Anita Williams, bus driver
Rob Scotlan, head of school
Stephanie Woodruff, lower school teacher
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
– William Butler Yeats
Becky Young, librarian
"If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
– Madeline L'Engle
Teri Zimmerman, bus driver
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
– Mae West