Where Children Learn Through Play.
ur mission is to provide a quality childcare experience that helps your child develop physically, socially, and emotionally.
OUR TEACHERS
Fairmount Cooperative Preschool employs experienced and professional educators. The teachers guide their class through age-appropriate 'learning through play' curriculums. Together they will explore the pre-school world around them through independent and cooperative play, art, science, story-time and field trips. Our nurturing staff provides a healthy and safe environment for all students.
All of the teachers at the Fairmount Cooperative Preschool are certified in First Aid, CPR and detecting child abuse and communicable diseases. Each year the teachers attend the annual meeting of the Ohio Association of the Education of Young Children for continuing professional development sessions. The administrator evaluates the teachers at least once a year in the classroom and parents fill out detailed, written evaluations in January. Feedback between the parents and teachers is both ongoing and encouraged and is the backbone of the school. The small classroom size and close-knit family community offered at FCP make a child's first school experience positive and affirming.
Lynette Bates
Lynette is the three-day four-year old teacher as well as the school administrator at the Fairmount Cooperative Preschool. Prior to coming to Fairmount Coop in 2007, Lynette had 7 years of teaching experience, 6 in an elementary classroom and 1 in a pre-school. She has a bachelors of science in Elementary education from Bowling Green State University. In addition to her teaching experience she has coached several swim teams and has been board president and membership chairperson at a co-operative pre-school.
Lynette grew up in Indiana where she was a competitive swimmer and continued her swimming career at BGSU where she met her husband. Lynette and her husband reside in University Heights with their five children.
Bev Dobrea
Bev is a Cleveland native with 25 years of teaching experience. She earned her degree in Early Childhood Education from Cuyahoga Community College and has been teaching at the Fairmount Cooperative Preschool for 20 years. In addition to her teaching degree, Mrs.Dobrea is also a member of NAEYC. Currently she is teaching the 4-day pre-kindergarten class, preparing the four and five year olds for the transition to kindergarten. Mrs Dobrea plans and runs Parents Day Out (PDO) an extended day program at FCP. Bev also works outside FCP with special needs children at the PEP early childhood center. Bev is married with two children who both attended the FCP. In her spare time Bev enjoys reading and playing golf.
Missy BleickMissy is the 3 day three’s teacher and a Cleveland Heights native. She is a graduate of Cleveland Heights High School. Missy has run an in-home day care and an after school program for pre-school aged children. She was also a nanny for 6 years. Missy is very involved at Roxboro School in Cleveland Heights chairing fundraising for the PTO and the Enrichment Arts program. She is also a tutor with the elementary school Village program. Missy is married and has 4 children. She and her family reside in Cleveland Heights.
Erica Eufinger Steinweg
Erica is the Creative Movement teacher at the FCP. She has a BFA in modern dance from the University of Utah and is pursuing certification in Iyengar yoga. She has been teaching creative movement, yoga and dance in the Cleveland area to people of all ages and situations for a number of years. Erica spent several years as a professional dancer with the Repertory Project before becoming a teacher full-time. She has worked in a variety of diverse settings from hospitals to concert halls and from elementary schools to senior centers. Erica began her work with FCP in the fall of 2002 and always finds that working with the children and teachers is one of the brightest spots in her week.
