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Ingrid Hurlbutt This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Leila Manzano |
Laura Ong Primary Teacher |
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Altagracia Primas |
Holly Hughes This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Marisol Velasco |
Petrana Yonkova This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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Robert Kerr
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Jonathan Dufault Art Teacher |
Jessica Ward |
Linda Walro |
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Marcia Hurlbutt |
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Marcia is the co-owner and director of the Montessori School of East Orlando and the lead 9-12 teacher. Marcia’s career in teaching began in 1997. She received her BA at She calls teaching her calling and finds nothing more fulfilling than watching her students’ eagerness and excitement for learning blossom and grow every year. She is a nature lover and enjoys seeing the care in which all life is nurtured under her students’ hands. |
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Ingrid Hurlbutt |
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Ingrid is the co-owner and administrator of the Montessori School of East Orlando. She was born in |
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Leila Manzano |
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Leila is the Lead Primary teacher and the Director of the Primary program. Leila has been working with children of all ages since 1993. She is a credentialed Director and an AMS Accredited teacher for the Early Childhood Level. She is also accredited through the North American Montessori Center (NAMC) in Elementary I. She loves the Montessori philosophy and the way in which it is specifically geared to support each child’s individuality and uniqueness. |
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Laura Ong |
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Laura received her BS degree in Communications from Cenenary College in Hackettstown, NJ. She always wanted to be a teacher and tood Graduate courses at New Jersey City Univeristy in Jersey City, NJ. One of her class projects entailed the study of a Montessori curriculum and she felt so connected. In 2003, Laura and her husband moved to Florida, where she began her Montessori education and teaching experience. She is certified by the National Center for Montessori Education in Early Childhood Education. Since her completion in 2004, Laura has worked part-time as a Primary Montessori teacher, a Stepping Stones teacher, and a stay-at-home mother of her two boys. Laura is also Staff Credentialed through the Florida Department of Children and Families. Her Montessori philosophy involves the sensorial environment: "There is an interchange between the individual, the spiritual embryo, and its environment. It is through the environment that the individual is molded and brought to perfection." (Montessori, Maria. The Secret of Childhood). |
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Altagracia Primas |
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Altagracia holds a Bachelor's degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from CUNY, Queens College. Her educational experience includes working as a substitute teacher for OCPS, as a teacher in a Development Center, and as a teacher in an inclusion classroom at a Charter School. She shares in the joy of being part of the Montessori community and looks forward to being of service to the children and their parents. "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child." Maria Montessori |
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Holly Hughes |
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Marisol Velasco |
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Petrana Yonkova |
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Petrana is an International Ballroom Instructor with more than thirty years of dance experience, including twenty years as a ballroom Instructor. A National Champion from Bulgaria, Petrana and her husband, Ivan Yonkov, danced and won three National Competitions, including events in Germany, Holland, and Czechoslovakia. As Petrana continues as a renowned instructor, her husband, Ivan, serves as an International Judge. As a member of the International Dance Sport Association, Petrana hosted and organized two national competitions as well as numerous showcases for adults. Locally, Petrana instructed Latin and Ballroom Dance at TC Dance Studio and Festival of Dance and has been instructing independently since 2008. |
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Robert Kerr |
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Rob is a freelance composer, violinist, conductor, and clinician. He holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Tulsa and a Bachelor of Music degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts. He taught at Rollins College for three years as the Adjunct Professor of Violin and headed the Violin Program for the Community Music School. He has also served as a clinician for Magic Music Days at Walt Disney World working with nationally recognized high school orchestras. He has had over 25 years experience teaching children of all ages as: Youth Orchestra Conductor, Private Violin & Piano Professor, and Choir Director. At the Montessori School of East Orlando, he has worked since 2009 as our Voice Specialist and has composed the Montessori School of East Orlando Anthem, featured on this web-site. For more information on Rob, please visit his website at www.robertkerrmusic.com. Currently, Rob is the full-time Violinist for Weddings at Walt Disney World and is frequently featured at EPCOT with Mo'Rockin and Off-Kilter. |
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Jonathan Dufault |
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Jonathan studies Studio Art at the University of Central Florida, School of Visual Arts and Design, and specialized in painting and drawing. He has participated in art shows and competitions at UCF, Disney, and in the Central Florida community since 2005. His most recent accomplishments include working with the Orange County Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Project and designing graphic T-shirts for the Chaos Clothing Company. Jonathan first began working with children in 2007 as a children and family photographer. He also shares a passion for soccer and has been coaching youth soccer for i9 Sports since 2009. |
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Jessica Ward |
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Jessica is a 2011 cum laude graduate from James Madison University with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a concentration in Creative Writing. She enjoys working with children and has been a Big Brothers, Big Sisters volunteer for three years. She has volunteered for the Special Olympics, Grief Camp, and the Zion Project, which supports children and their mothers in Africa. She was an ice skating camp counselor for two summers for elementary aged children. She worked as a researcher and writer for the Virginia Child Protection Newsletter at JMU. She has published a children's book and is currently working on book two of the series. |
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Linda Walro |
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Linda graduated from Rollins College with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Business in 1989. She worked in a wide variety of jobs including: administrative, training, management, Activities Leader in a nursing home and as a nanny. She enjoyed home-schooling her daughter; however, it was when she taught Sunday school that she realized her great love of teaching large groups of children. Linda thoroughly enjoyed volunteering her time assisting the teachers here at MSEO during the 2010-2011 school year and is thrilled to have joined the school on a more permanent basis. |