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MSMV Teaching and Extended Care Staff

Primary

Melanie Moore-Buonavolonta
Primary Guide

“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.” - Dr. Maria Montessori

Rosie Paez
Primary Guide

“When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine!” – Unknown

Beth Drummond
Primary Guide

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” -J.K. Rowling (Albus Dumbledore)

Sheri Shedosky
Primary Associate Instructor

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." - Allen Saunders

Lower Elementary

Mililani Perry
Lower Elementary Guide

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Shelley Sikich
Lower Elementary Guide

Erin Arnal
Lower Elementary Associate Instructor

"The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get." - John C. Maxwell

Mikayla Mistovich
Lower Elementary Associate Instructor

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin

Upper Elementary

Ann Michelle McMaster
Upper Elementary Guide
“The [sic] hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.” ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

Karen Stevenson
Upper Elementary Guide

Adolescents

Audra Carlson
Adolescent Guide
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein

Maralee Lellio
Adolescent Guide

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." -Daniel J. Boorstin

Extended Care

Ashley Cupp
Extended Caregiver

Gardens and children need the same things - patience, love and someone who will never give up on them. - Nicolette Sowder

Shanna Minnie
Extended Caregiver

"Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well." - Unknown

Brenda Liodakis
Extended Caregiver