Executive Director: Carrie Meyer
Our Executive Director, Carrie Meyer, has 20 years
of experience working in childcare. After
spending 7 years as a child care teacher working with every age group from
infants to school age children, Carrie was promoted to the assistant director
at the Center in 1996 and took over as Executive Director in 2005. She has 3 children who all attended the
Center, and has lived in the local area all of her life.
Program Director: Betsy Boardman
Our Program Director, Elizabeth (Betsy) Boardman,
graduated from Washington and Lee University and came to the Center for her
first job straight out of college. After
spending a year with us as a child care teacher, Betsy went on to work as a
Montessori teacher and graduated from the Institute for Advanced Montessori
Studies in Silver Spring. In 2005, she
came back to the Center to become our Program Director. During her time at the Center, she obtained her Masters Degree in
Curriculum and Instruction for Early Childhood Education at Hood College.
Operations Director: Sandra Acklin
Our Operations Director, Sandra Acklin, has been
working at the Center for over 15 years.
She began with us in 1993 as a toddler teacher, and has worked with
several other age groups as well. In
2001, she became the lead teacher for the two-year-old classroom. She quickly became a parent favorite, as her
philosophy that "they are all Kings and Queens" was easily
apparent. In 2008, she was promoted to
the role of Operations Director for the Center.
Board President and CEO: Shaun Rose
Overseeing the operation of the Center is our Board President and CEO, Shaun Rose. Shaun is a lawyer who has worked in politics and the education field. He taught elementary and middle school for 3 years, and has a Masters Degree in Elementary Education. He has been an integral part of several local political campaigns on the state and federal levels. As a parent of two children at the Center, Shaun volunteered hundreds of hours and became President of the Center's Board of Directors. In that role, Shaun led the effort to save our Center when it was forced to leave its previous facility. Within 10 months, Shaun negotiated a lease for the new facility, obtained the needed financing and oversaw the construction of our beautiful new Center. After that, Shaun took on an additional permanent role as the CEO of the Center to provide continuous professional and managerial support in helping shape the Center into one of the best and most sought after child care and preschool providers in this area.