Juniors (5-7 Year Olds)

As a clinical social worker who specializes in infant and early childhood development, Kim received her Masters in Social Work from New York University and studied infant and parent development at Bank Street College of Education. Kim has worked with infants, children and parents in hospital, school and mental health settings for 22 years. She has experience working with typically developing children, as well as children with chronic illness, special needs and infants born prematurely. For the past 15 years, Kim has been the Associate Program Coordinator of the Pacella Parent Child Center. Her responsibilities included facilitating the infant/toddler socialization groups and supervising graduate students who were learning about early childhood development and clinical work with infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Patricia graduated from Washington University George Washington - Wilcott Fellow, MBA, , UCLA M.ED, and Pratt MLIS. She was one of the architects of Chris Wittle’s Edison Project, a contributor to Chicago’s, Everyday Math, a Master Teacher, created, developed and implemented curriculum for various schools across the country, contributed to state’s Frameworks, LHS Peaches and GEMS units and FOSS. Patricia has started over a dozen schools across the nation, including the JCC Preschool, here in NYC. As a Librarian she created collections in seven schools in the NY area. Furthermore, she has been a member of ALSC book award committees including Notable and Siebert. She continues to contribute to the world of children's literature by creating blogs through the Kerlan collection and Library of Congress. Patricia has been a classroom teacher and school librarian for many years. Her love of children is boundless.