Marta Espinoza, RECE
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Samantha Ellis, OCT
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Kim Holland, OCT
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Sabrin Saraj, RECE
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Each kindergarten class, is comprised of a three person educator team.
One Registered Childhood Educator (RECE), and two Ontario Certified Educators (OCT), one who teaches in English and one who teaches in French.
Marta has been teaching Kindergarten for the past 23 years, 10 of which have been as part of the Hilson Kinder program. She holds both her Elementary and Kindergarten teaching license in Chile, a postgraduate degree in Educational psychology and her Early Childhood Education diploma from Algonquin College. Marta is fluent in both English and Spanish and is a teacher at heart!
Marta is the Registered Early Childhood Educator in kinder A.
For the past three years, Samantha has been part of the Hilson Kindergarten team, working as a French teacher. Prior to pursuing her teaching degree, Samantha worked as an Early Childhood Educator for over 5 years and still remains a registered member of the College of ECEs. This experience helped cement her love of the early years and helped her gain a solid understanding of play-based, and interest lead learning. Samantha is a trained Forest Nature School Practitioner and is working towards her Ontario Kindergarten Specialist.
Samantha is the French teacher for both Kinder A and Kinder B.
Kim has been a teacher for over 9 years, 3 of which have been teaching Kindergarten. This is her 4th year teaching at Hilson. Kim holds her Ontario Special Education specialist and part 1 of the kindergarten specialist. Kim is a mother of a young son who is also in his first year of kindergarten.
Kim is the English teacher for both Kinder A and Kinder B.
Sabrin has been a registered early childhood educator for the past 8 years, 7 of which she has worked at Hilson. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Education online from the University of New Brunswick. Sabrin won the OCDSB Excellence in Equity Award in 2021, and continues her advocacy work at Hilson and within the community as a board member of the Parents 4 Diversity group.
Sabrin is the Registered Early Childhood Educator for Kinder B.