Our Teachers

Anu has deep passion and love for furthering education in young children. Her ambition is to make a difference through the S.T.E.A.M. program of Goddard and make the San Clemente location a one-stop children's center. Anu brings to the school her natural love and playfulness with children and a sociable personality combined with proven executive leadership in the computer software industry. Anu and Vikram have raised two wonderful daughters in South Orange County. Travel and education are the family's biggest passions.

Wendy received her college degrees in Early Childhood Education, Psychology, Human Development, and Anthropology. She began working in Early Childhood Education in 2013, at Mira Costa College Child Development Center, teaching STEAM learning and language development to infants and toddlers and since, cannot imagine that there is any career out there that she could enjoy more. She enjoys working with children of all ages. Wendy has worked in Reggio Emilia and Waldorf inspired school settings. She enjoys incorporating music, science, multi-language learning, and play into every learning opportunity. Wendy's favorite classroom experiences are hands-on, deeply-explored investigations that drive children of any age to ask the question, “Why?” Wendy considers herself a perpetual student and loves bringing new knowledge that she acquires directly into the classrooms. She could not be happier to have joined the Goddard Team!

Jocelyn has joined The Goddard School as a teacher in the First Steps classroom. She loves working with children of all ages, but has found a special joy working with the little ones. She loves watching them grow and learning to reach their full potential. She strives to ensure children’s development at different stages, overall growth, and to see them accomplish their milestones. It is very important to her that children can come to a safe environment where their families always feel welcomed and engaged in their children's learning and care.

Bertha has been working in the field of early childhood education for more than twenty-five years. She has two adult children and two handsome grandsons, ages fourteen and four. Teaching has always been her passion. She received her education in Human Development from Saddleback College and has loved working with young children, teaching them patience, love, and independence, and treating and caring for each child as if they were her own.

Ms. Mary is thrilled to be teaching Pre-K here at Goddard! She has been teaching Pre-K, TK, and Kindergarten for twenty-one years. Her mission as a teacher is to develop the whole child and to work with children at their learning levels, as every child is unique and has his or her own learning style. Providing a nurturing, developmentally appropriate, hands-on, engaging learning environment helps her to ensure that each child becomes a happy, confident, successful learner. This is what feeds her passion and desire to teach! Mary has been married to her husband, Dennis, for forty years! Dennis was transferred from Denver to San Diego in 2009 and they have been living in Old Carlsbad ever since. They are avid walkers and love being close to the beach, as they spend much of their time walking and eating there. They have two children- a son, Matt, who lives in Carlsbad, and a daughter, Jessie, who lives in Los Angeles.

Sepideh is a mother of one son, who is nine years old. She loves her family and her job. Every day, she wakes up full of love to visit with children. Knowing that young children are spending long days away from their parents and need a lot of love and care, she is ready to provide that for them. Sepideh believes that children have big hearts and many emotions, but never hate, and this is beautiful. Sepideh's hobbies are spending time with her family, reading books, watching movies with her family, going into nature to relax, going to the mall with her sister, going to restaurants, and partying and dancing. Her favorite thigs include pastels, Persian and Italian food, Spring and Fall, Starbox, El Pollo Loco, New York City, and all children.