Jenny Taylor

For the 2012 – 2013 school year, I will be assisting in the Clover Garden Kindergarten and co-leading the Friday Morning Kinder Care program. Previously, I have been the facilitator for the Saturday Morning Parent and Child Program, an early childhood supply teacher, and a long-time parent at the school. My experience as an educator has included a long summer camp career, occasional work in the public school system, teaching Kindergarten at a private school, graduate work in Education, and Waldorf-inspired home childcare. I was drawn into the wonder, warmth, beauty and activity of the Mulberry community through a prenatal program while pregnant with my first child Arwen, who is now in Grade 4 at Mulberry. Our daughter Cedar attends Grade 1, and our youngest, Ember, is in the Meadow Garden Kindergarten. My husband Ramsey teaches co-operative education with the Hastings Prince Edward District School Board. I bring to the Early Childhood program an affinity for young lives from conception through the early years, my love of children’s music and verse, a strong grounding in educational research, and a belief in the importance of nurturing and supporting the hands, hearts and minds of both young children and their parents. Outside of teaching, I enjoy biking and swimming, reading, making music, good food, and exploring nature in the backyard and wilder places.
Qualifications:
BEd 1997 Queen’s University
PhD (Education) 2008 Queen’s University


A Brief History

Mulberry Waldorf School began as a Waldorf Initiative playgroup in 1993. In 1995, we were incorporated as a not-for-profit charitable organization, and in 1996 we moved to the former Glenburnie West School. A few years later, in 1999, we arranged to lease our current home - the former St. John’s Catholic School on Markland Street in downtown Kingston. Over the next 7 years, we grew and stabilized our pedagogical and administrative foundations and being downtown provided us the ability to expand enrolment as well as be part of a lively and culturally-supportive neighbourhood. Our lead class graduated in 2008 and in the same year, the school attained Developing School Status within AWSNA. After a five-year search to find a permanent home, the school negotiated the purchase of our present school building in 2009. Our present goals include Depaving our Yard, and expanding the Early Childhood Program to feed our Grade School.