Ann Herder begins her tenth year at Cherry, teaching the M/W and T/Th Transition and the 2 Afternoon Multi-age classes in the Green Room.  She is the parent of two daughters, both at ETHS.  Ann served on the Preschool Board while her younger daughter attended Cherry and also served on the Board as a Teacher Representative.  Ann is continuing to take courses in early childhood education to complement her experience in the classroom.

Del Lord is beginning her fifteenth year at Cherry Preschool.  She teaches both of the Transition and the 2 Afternoon Multi-age classes in the Green Room.   She also works in the Morning Lunch program on Mondays and Wednesdays.     A native of Belize where she worked in a school for five years, Del also worked in childcare for over eleven years prior to joining Cherry’s staff. Six years ago, Del earned her CDA early childhood credential and became an American citizen!  Del has been a Teacher Representative on the Board.  Del's son, Ray, is a Cherry graduate and is now a junior at ETHS.

Shellee Reinisch, who rejoined the Cherry staff in January 2008 as an inclusion aide, is working in the Young 3’s Morning Orange and the 2 Afternoon Multi-age Green rooms.  Last year, Shellee worked in the T/Th Transition and PM Young 3’s Green Room classes.  Prior to that, she worked as a permanent sub in the Young 3’s Orange Room.  In the past, Shellee was Debbie Boileve’s co-teacher in the Yellow Room.  Shellee also taught in the Orange Room for two years and did her teaching practicum in the Blue Room. Shellee is the parent of two boys, one in college and the other a recent college graduate.

Magda Stojko rejoined the Cherry staff last winter and is working this year as an inclusion aide in the 2 Afternoon Multi-age Green Room.  Magda worked at Cherry from 1999 – 2003, prior to the birth of her second son, Maciej (who is in the 4 Afternoon Multi-age Blue Room), working an inclusion aide and as the coordinating teacher in the Gym Lunch Program.  Her older son, Voitek, is a Cherry graduate.  She has taken classes in early childhood education in Poland and worked as a nanny for five years prior to joining the Cherry staff.  Magda has attended many workshops and seminars in early childhood education.