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About the Teachers

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Alaina Benner is the Director and Head Teacher at Children's Garden Montessori School. She founded Children's Garden in 1989 and has 30+ years of experience teaching in Montessori schools. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UC Berkeley, and a Montessori Teaching Certificate from Sonoma State University. She loves teaching young children, and hopes to give them a good start for their beginning years of school.

Alaina works alongside a wonderful team of Assistant Teachers: Bindy, Laila, Vanessa, Stefanie, Clemence, Nashelly, and Stella. Together they bring a depth of experience from the fields of early childhood development, social work, Montessori teaching, and the arts.

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