Montessori Kids Universe Hutto recognizes that our caring, dedicated teachers are what makes our school so valuable. MKU Hutto recruits and maintains a high-quality staff through an intensive selection and vetting process. We provide on-going professional development and growth opportunities within our school, and foster a healthy work environment for our employees. Meet the most important aspect of our school: Our quality teaching staff!
Dr. Shah holds a PhD degree in Physics from University of Delaware, USA. Her research work published in internationally acknowledged journals was cited by physicists from all over the world. Dr. Shah has more than 8 years of professional experience in the fast-paced semiconducting industry both as process Engineer as well as Project Manager, her project management skills were recognized with multiple Director and Divisional level awards.
Dr. Shah always stayed involved in mentoring activities, training and developing new hires and guiding their career growth. During corporate based community outreach programs, Dr. Shah had the opportunity to visit elementary schools. While conducting teaching and mentoring activities, Dr. Shah discovered her passion for early childhood education. Those pure moments of seeing sparkles of joy in children’s eyes while observing a science activity inspired Dr. Shah and she dreamed about transitioning her career from semiconducting into an early childhood education. Dr. Shah’s own childhood experience, where her parents inbuilt in her grit for higher education, helped her overcome all roadblocks and reach her goals, the same power of grit again made her career transition even smoother than she expected.
Dr. Shah has always been an admirer of Dr. Maria Montessori’s authentic philosophy about learning that is applicable to all ages and is based on the key principles of respect, independence and observation. With opening the doors of the Montessori Kids Universe of Hutto to the community, Dr. Shah and her husband Dr. Ali have envisioned a facility where children who start their early developmental years get encouragement and guidance to develop intrinsic motivation for learning, education and self-development.
Dr. Shah’s goal is that the Montessori Kids Universe of Hutto establishes a solid learning foundation in these young ones so that they are set on a path of continuous growth and become future problem solvers, self-sustained contributing members of the community.
In her free time, Dr. Shah enjoys hiking, playing board games and spending time with her family and children. Here at Montessori Kids Universe of Hutto, Dr. Shah loves spending time with infants/toddlers/Pre-primary reading them books and performing STEM activities with Primary and school-agers.
– PhD, Physics (Spintronics) – University of Delaware, USA
-Work Smart Certifications Bronze and Silver
-Self-Leadership Certification
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
Ms. Sarah received her Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Sciences-Early childhood from the University of Texas at Austin. Sarah’s passion for children is what from her to pursue a career in childcare. Being able to foster knowledge and growth in your minds is her main objective. In her free time Ms. Sarah enjoys spending time with her nephews, hiking Greenbelt and reading novels.
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
-Bachelor’s degree from UT
-Montessori Certification for ages 0-3 from NAMC
Director Credential
CDA (Child Development Associate Credential)
Infant and Child CPR/First Aid
Certified Trainings
Conscious Discipline
Curriculum Development
Managing Emotional Mayhem
Ms. Makayla is originally from Austin Tx. She is the oldest in a big family and always loved helping with the children in her family. Ms. Makayla has two dogs and spends most of her time outside or at the park with her family. Ms. Makayla has 4 years of customer service experience but even as a child her goal was to pursue a career working and helping children!
I’m Mitali. I was born in India, near Calcutta in the state of Bengal. I got married right after High School. My husband is a Computer Engineer and together we have a son. He is quite grown up now. We came to the US in the year 1998. I was mostly a stay at home mom until my son finished his post-graduation. He is now employed at a senior position in a fortune 500 company.
While my son had been a student, I didn’t have many opportunities in teaching and managing a group of children, though I always had the knack. After my son got employed, I took some conventional child development courses and joined a preschool with an inclination towards teaching with Montessori methods. I loved the way the children learn from their surroundings almost by themselves doing something which interests them using the methods. At the first opportunity, I got enrolled in a Montessori Training course organized by American Montessori Society and became a certified Montessori teacher in 2014.
As a teacher, these are the strengths which I feel I have:
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
-Montessori Certification for ages 3-6 in progress from MKUIT
My name is Angelica but I like to be called Mrs. Angie. I have about 4 years of experience child care but have had a passion for children since my little brother was born in 2003. I quickly learned that this was the field I wanted to be a part of. I was blessed with a wonderful, loving and energetic two-year-old named is Tristan and a wonderful husband for 4 years. We have a very energetic dog her name is Zelda. In my spare time I love shopping and baking cakes and cookies with my little boy. I am excited to be part of MKU and continue to learn and grow and a teacher.
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
-Bilingual: Spanish
-Montessori Certification for ages 0-3 in progress from MKUIT
Ms. Lacey was born and raised in Austin Tx. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art-drawing along with earning credits in art education from the Texas State University in San Marcos. Lacey has always had a passion for working with children from all ages. She has five nieces and nephews and has through the years helped take care of them and has sometimes been their tutor during the school years. After graduating from Texas State, Lacey started teaching at a childcare facility and fell in love with being able to help young children learn and develop new skills. As a continuous learning process, Ms. Lacey constantly exploring newer ways and researching/gaining more knowledge in how to better educate the young minds of today.
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
-Bilingual: Spanish
-Montessori Certification for ages 0-3 in progress from MKUIT
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
-Montessori Certification 3-6 from MKUIT
-Montessori Certification 0-3 in progress from MKUIT
-Bilingual: Greek
Ms. Bianca was born in Dallas Tx but was raised in Brownsville. She is the youngest of 2 and has 7 nieces and nephews.She has studied cosmetology and is currently trying to begin a degree in Education. She loves music, theater, and math, and wants to share the passion she has with the kids. Ms.Bianca has one boy named Sebastian and another son on the way.
-Infant & Child CPR/First Aid
-Bilingual: Spanish
-Bachelor’s Degree from California State University
-Montessori Certification for ages 0-3 from MKUIT
-CPR/First Aid
-“Stop the bleed” training
-Completed clinicals at St. David’s hospital for 6 weeks
-Currently Studying at Temple Community College
-Montessori Certification for ages 0-3 from MKUIT
Ms. Patty C. was born in Lima-Peru. She has worked with children since coming to this country, almost 32 years ago. She has worked in Montessori & Reggio Emilia schools in New York, Maryland and Florida. In Florida she was also a nanny to a special needs’ girl. She’s been happily married for 32 years and blessed with 4 children and 3 grand-kids. During her free time, she also serves at Juan Guzman Foundation and helps Children in need. Children are her passion!!
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