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Early Education Team
Our Team
Denver Public Schools Early Education Department focuses on building shared best practices for working with young children and their families and promoting the value of early education through advocacy and strategic communication, keeping the community informed.
Our team is committed to administrator and teacher effectiveness; aligned standards, curricula, and assessments of social-emotional and academic skills for students from PreK to third grade; quality learning environments; family engagement; data driven improvement; and collaboration with the community.
Early Education Staff
A – L
Zaineb Abdulwafi – Head Start Health Partner, CNA
Lauren Adamson – Client Technical Support – Denver East
Jessica Anglin – Early Education Manager
Liz Beindorff – Head Start Health and Wellness Supervisor
Erin Ellis – Office Support II
Becka Eschel – Head Start Operations Coordinator
Nydia Gonzales – Head Start Family Liaison
Laura Green – Project Manager
Julissa Gomez-VanDeVelde – Head Start Nurse, RN
Monica Guerrero – Office Support III
Rosie Hernandez – Head Start Office Support II
Priscilla Hopkins – Executive Director
Andrea “Andi” Ives – Business Manager
Sydney Kalin – Early Education Specialist
Karen Labuda – Head Start Family Liaison
Eric Love – Early Education Director
M – Z
Geraldine Martinez – Head Start Family Liaison
Irma Martinez – Head Start Family Liaison
Lois McDonald – Lead Head Start Family Liaison
Danielle Mitchell – Early Education Specialist
Anastasia Moloney – Early Education Specialist
Amy Nagel – Early Education Specialist
Max Panten – Client Technical Support – Denver West
José Paz – Director of Head Start
Fernando Perez-Soto – Head Start Family Liaison
Amar Vaanchig – Budget Analyst
Elena Villagrana – Head Start Family Liaison
Jane Walsh – Director of Community Partnerships
Trina Watkins – Head Start Family Liaison
Nguyen Vo – Systems and Process Manager
Elyse Yurth Adlen – Head Start Education & Disabilities Specialist