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Ashley Eyres is the Primary I Assistant.

Sally Sue Tobias, our Primary II Guide, has been with Lake Hills since summer 2006. Sally Sue has a Montessori Primary Certification, B.S. in Speech, Masters classes in Early Childhood and Library Science. She has 21+ years experience as a Primary Lead Teacher and 11+ years experience as an administrator and lead teacher for a newly established school. She has been a trainer and evaluator for MMTTC in Chicago, and has established Godly Play and Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in Several Montessori School Classrooms. 

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Naomi Serwanga , our Pre-Primary Guide, has 10+ years teaching Montessori. She has a Montessori Primary Certification, B.A. and M.A. in Education with an emphasis on Child Psychology. Naomi joined Lake Hill Montessori in Spring 2006.

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Melissa Phelan, our Pre-Primary Assistant, grew up in Dallas and has relocated to Tulsa. Melissa has come to Lake Hills excited to work with our two year-olds! Melissa joined us in the beginning of 2008.

Cherish Walker-Smith is one of our School Assistants. She has completed her Montessori training, and will be certified upon completion of her internship year. Cherish has been a part of Lake Hills Montessori since our school opened, and has officially joined our staff as of the beginning of 2008.

Erica McMullen is a School Assistant and offers relief to all our staff. Erica not only comes from a large family that has offered several years of child care experience, but also comes with a degree in Health and Nutrition. She is incredibly effective with the students and has been at Lake Hills since October of 2007

Karissa Wagenblatt, RN BSN is our on-call nurse. She works on the weekends at St Francis Hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and we get to see her daily when she brings her oldest son to Sally Sue's class!

Lesley Jennings is our Dance Instructor. She was raised and trained in Oklahoma and holds a BPA from Oklahoma City University.  Since moving back to Oklahoma to raise her own family, she has choreographed Beauty and the Beast and Oliver for the Children’s Musical Theater of Bartlesville, choreographs and teaches dance in vocal music productions at Jenks High School, and teaches dance at various other private studios and public schools.  Lesley is also the associate artistic director and on the faculty of the Broadway Theater Dance Workshop in Santa Fe, NM.  She has taught theater dance to NYC public school children for Rosie’s Broadway Kids and National Dance Institute of NY.  

Ann Abhari is our yoga instructor. Originally from France, she has been teaching Yoga for several years and is now adding "Yoga Kids" into her repertoire.  She is using a book called "My daddy is a pretzel" and the children love it!  She also ends her Yoga classes with a sweet surprise!

Scott Whitman holds a degree in Civil Engineering and is currently a Home builder here in Tulsa with his company Caprock Homes.  Scott has graciously volunteered to help with Building improvements and maintenance for our school. 
 

Charles Pennington is our morning greeter. He is an empty nester/retiree who doesn’t see his grandkids nearly enough. Charlie looks forward to seeing all the little smiling faces come in each day. He once thought when he retired from corporate America he would like to be a school crossing guard, he thinks this volunteer job is even better!

Katheryn Pennington

Cosmo is a small Shi Tzu that loves to watch the children arrive and depart school from his window seat in the front office.  He is known for his love and patience with the students here at Lake Hills Montessori and will do tricks for treats!