Every lead educator at Oakbridge is a Registered Early Childhood Educator with formal Montessori or Reggio training and at least four years of classroom experience. We hire slowly. Our turnover is low. Children form steady, multi-year relationships with the people who teach them.
Anna founded Oakbridge after fifteen years teaching in independent Montessori schools across Ontario. She holds the AMI Casa diploma and continues to lead a Casa classroom four mornings a week alongside her director responsibilities. She believes that the best directors stay close to the work.
Priya leads our Toddler Community and is the warm, steady presence most of our families meet first. Before Oakbridge, she worked in toddler programmes in Vancouver and Mumbai. She speaks English, Tamil, and conversational French, and she is the reason our morning drop-off feels easy.
James joined us from a Montessori programme in Vancouver. He coordinates our outdoor curriculum and our weekly forest mornings. Children describe him as the educator who knows the names of all the birds.
Elena trained originally in Reggio-inspired programmes in northern Italy and runs our Afterschool and Summer programmes with the same project-based sensibility. She is a working ceramicist and runs our pottery studio one afternoon a week.
Tours run weekday mornings at 10:00 AM and afternoons at 2:00 PM, with select Saturdays available by appointment. They take about 45 minutes and include time in each of our classrooms.
