Early Childhood Executive Director
Resume:
Tiana Traylor
Bellevue, WA 98004
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Overview: I am a highly creative innovative Teacher, past Preschool owner, Teacher trainer, and Music Specialist with 30 plus years of experience working with children and families in varied educational settings. I have taught music in private schools and have owned and operated a full-day Preschool for 24 years. I’ve presented creative curriculum and music workshops for the Washington Association of Education for Young Children. I have an AAS degree in Early Childhood Education, and a Master’s Degree in Human Development with a Specialty in Teaching Adults.
April 1999 to June 2023:
Owner/Executive Director/Teacher/Music Specialist
Little Acorn Inc.
Duties Included all aspects of running a small business including payroll, budgeting, hiring, training, and maintaining 11 employees, as well as all aspects of running a school including program planning and implementation, Parent education, ordering equipment and supplies, supervising, teaching, and daily music program.
September 1996 – April 1999:
Director and Teacher, North Seattle Fives Cooperative School
Duties included program planning and implementation, including daily music program, for children who just missed the kindergarten cut-off, parent education, ordering equipment and supplies, training, and supervising parent volunteers as assistant teacher, and overseeing budget and fundraising operations.
September 1992 – April 1998:
Director, Teacher & Music Specialist at Bright and Early Primary School, Started Phinney Fives Preschool, and Director/Teacher at Ingraham Cooperative Preschool
September 1984 – 1985
Volunteer Kindergarten Art Teacher, Orca Elementary School
Duties included planning and implementing a one-hour art class for kindergarten students
Summer Employment:
• Taught music classes for 3-7-year-olds for Seattle and King County Public Libraries and 6-11 -year-olds at University Child Development School
• Infant and School Age Teacher, Pinehurst Childcare, Seattle WA
• Neo Art Teacher for 4-8-year-olds, Neo Art School, Seattle, WA
• Kinder Arts Teacher: Developed and Taught an after-school art/music/drama enrichment program 3 afternoons per week.
EDUCATION
Pacific Oaks College NW: master’s degree in human development (Specialty: Teaching
Adults)
North Seattle Community College: Associate of Applied Science in Early Childhood Education
Seattle Central Community college: 68 credits toward AA in Liberal Arts
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING SEMINARS
• Promoting resiliency & Social/Emotion Competence in Young Children (Horizons in Learning)
• The Visionary Director (Margie Carter and Deb Curtis)
• Play: Research and Application, NSCC
• Math Their Way, NSCC
• Anti-Biased Curriculum (Connie Hine)
• Whole Language (Nellie Edge)
• WAEYC annual conference 16 years plus
• Nurturing Creativity and Joyful Learning (Bev Bos)
• Healthy Start Volunteer (Mentoring teen parents)
• Promoting Positive Academic & Social Behaviors in Students (University of Washington)
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