About the Teachers

Kerri Meelia has been teaching in Forest Kindergartens and/or Waldorf schools for the past nine years as a Spanish teacher, pod leader, and Forest Kindergarten assistant. She has also spent over a decade working with families of young children through Head Start and other agencies designed to promote whole family wellness. Kerri has a self-designed Masters of Arts in Early Childhood Education with an emphasis in nature-based education and minfdulness.  She also has a Master’s Degree in Holistic Nutrition and loves to explore food with children - be it by following a seed from plant to harvest to table, grinding corn, flipping tortillas over a fire, or telling stories about food and its mythical origins.

 

Kerri’s great joy is allowing children to be children in wild places, while also exploring the mysteries and wonders of language.   She is  an eager traveler, gardener, and mother of two children. She has spent much of her adult life living and working in Mexico, where she became fluent in Spanish and developed a lifelong love for slow food, travel and the Spanish language. She loves letting the chickens and ducks out in the morning and watching them spread their wings, harvesting Hawthorne berries in the rain, and playing cards at the airport with her kids.