Andrea is a co-founder of Puddletown School. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing from Colorado State University. After graduating she headed a creative writing and arts program at a local Fort Collins, Colorado preschool. Andrea then moved to Portland where she began assisting and teaching at the Northwest Children’s Theater. She returned to school in 2001 to receive her Montessori certification from Montessori Institute Northwest and a Masters of Montessori Education from Loyola College. She has worked with many Portland public schools and local Montessori schools through outreach and other after school programs.
Emily is an AMI primary trained teacher who is in the process of completing her Masters in Education from Loyola College. She has been working in the field of education since 1995 and in Montessori since 2002. She has taught in Montessori classrooms in Alaska, Seattle and Portland and in various other education programs in Minnesota. Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Oregon. Emily is a singer songwriter, and outdoor enthusiast, and sustainability advocate with a strong interest in natural health and herbs. She enjoys working with children and setting up an environment where they can happily do things for themselves. Emily is a teacher at Puddletown School in the Lavender classroom.
Originally from Texas, Amy has called Portland home the past four years. She began on her Montessori path in 1995 as an assistant to a gifted teacher. In 1998, Amy completed the AMI primary training in Arizona then returned to Texas to begin a new classroom. For the next six years she questioned, explored, discovered, documented, and observed with the children in her care. Amy enjoys reading, learning, camping, photography, gardening, and knitting and traveling. She has camped her way through many states and has spent three summers in Mexico and one memorable summer as a volunteer English teacher in China. Amy is a teacher at Puddletown School in the Sage classroom.
Kimberley moved to Portland from Spokane about a year ago. She's a self proclaimed painter and sketch artist finishing up her last year at Portland State University as an Art History major. Along with 4 years of experience working in pre-schools, she has worked as the manager of an arcade and in a local bakery. She enjoys music, riding her bike, creating art and sewing. Kimberley is the assistant in the Lavender classroom.
Weylin received his Bachelor of Arts in American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. Before that he worked for four years as a primary teacher's assistant at various Montessori schools in Denver, Colorado and Wisconsin. He recently moved to Portland with his wife to take the AMI primary teacher's training beginning summer 2009. He is expecting his first child in July 2009. He used to enjoy camping, hunting, fishing, reading, and martial arts. Hopefully he will be able to do them again someday. Weylin is the assistant in the Sage classroom.
Sam is a co-founder of Puddletown School. He graduated from William Penn College with majors in Art, English and Journalism and a minor in Education. He worked in a Montessori classroom in the Oregon Coast to develop an immersion program for Spanish speaking students and in Costa Rica with a bilingual program. He received his Montessori Primary Certificate from the Montessori Institute Northwest and a Masters of Education from Loyola College in Baltimore. Sam taught in Connecticut at an inner city Montessori school with the Hartford Public School system. After returning to the pacific northwest, he taught at Cascadia Montessori Elementary School.