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Patty Amidon

19 Aug 2024By
Patty grew up in Vermont, first in North Bennington, Barre, and moving to Brattleboro for high school. She went to Saint Michael’s and then graduated from Castleton University in 1969 with a major in education and minor in art. Her husband was in the military for eight years, and during that time they were stationed...
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19
Aug

Lucy Manning

19 Aug 2024By
Lucy will be joining for her first year at Hilltop working in the role of Children’s House assistant and helping out in the Extended Day Program. She graduated from Union College in Schenectady, NY in 2023 with a B.S. in Psychology and a double minor in Economics and Environmental Science & Policy. Attending public school...
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19
Aug

Paul Dedell

22 Jul 2024By
  Now retired, Paul was Hilltop’s Middle School Director and Humanities Teacher from 2001 – 2022. These days he has the great privilege of continuing his connection with the Middle School through singing songs with students that deepen and enrich the humanities curriculum, a long standing Middle School tradition. He also assists musically with the...
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22
Jul

Marco Yunga Tacuri

1 Jan 2024By
Marco joined Hilltop in 2015 as an After Care and Children’s House assistant, after seeing what a positive effect Hilltop had on his two children, one a Hilltop graduate and one currently in the Upper Elementary program. He moved to Brattleboro in 2014 from his home country of Ecuador. In Ecuador he taught language through...
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01
Jan

Travis Thiele

1 Jan 2024By
Travis Thiele was born in Brattleboro, grew up in Westminster West, attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and has worked in Costa Rica, New Zealand, Lake Tahoe, and Park City. He is a certified ski and snowboard instructor since 2001 and has taught thousands of lessons around the world to predominantly clients with disabilities. He was...
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01
Jan

Akari Stimler

1 Jan 2024By
Akari grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. and moved up to Vermont in 2021 to join the Hilltop community. Akari studied political science, education, and gender studies at Bates College for undergrad and completed AMI’s 6-12 Elementary training program with the Montessori Training Center Northeast in August 2024. They are currently a co-teacher in the Lower Elementary...
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01
Jan

Ashlyn Stephens

1 Jan 2024By
From a reading tutor to a ski instructor, Environment Educator at Nature Camps to teaching English as Another Language in Taiwan, Ashlyn has a passion for working with children in any capacity. Ashlyn completed her BS in Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and her MA in Education at Loyola University in Baltimore....
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01
Jan

Izzy Snyder

1 Jan 2024By
Izzy Snyder is returning for a second year as an Upper El teacher. In this role, she supports students in planning their day, provides one-on-one and small group support to students with their follow up work, helps create Montessori teaching materials, and leads some group lessons within the language arts curriculum. Izzy is passionate about...
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01
Jan

Miranda Sherman

1 Jan 2024By
Miranda grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Colorado in 2008. She lived there until her husband and two kids moved to Vermont, in August 2023, to be closer to her East Coast family. Miranda studied Early Childhood Education and started working with toddlers at a Montessori school in 2013. She worked in this environment...
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01
Jan

Vicky Senni

1 Jan 2024By
Vicky grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where her mother ran a home-based child care program and taught her early on how to nurture and care for our youngest children. Her parents are Syrian and Spanish and influenced Vicky’s love of languages, food, and gardening.  For the last five years, Vicky was the director of a...
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Jan
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