Staff
Chuck Stockwell
President
Chuck Stockwell is the co-founder of two Michigan Public School Academies and was the co-founder and CEO of one of Michigan’s first independent ESPs. He is now the President of CS Partners, an educational consulting and management company working with seven public charter schools. He has twelve years experience working in Michigan Public Charter Schools. Chuck Stockwell was a 2003 winner of Michigan Association of Public Schools Leadership award. In addition to his work in charter schools he has twenty five years experience in traditional public education as a teacher, ISD program developer and consultant, central office administrator, community college trustee, and elementary school principal. He has experience in facilities development and construction as well as school strategic planning including marketing and mission/vision development. He is the founder and Chief Administrative Officer for Charyl Stockwell Academy, a school that is an innovation leader in K-12 education. |
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Betsy Krupansky
Program Developer
Betsy Krupansky has been the Director for the Student Enrichment Program (SEP) at Charyl Stockwell Academy for five years. Betsy has expanded the SEP program from its early stages and has successfully developed an enrichment program under the SEP umbrella including: Charyl’s Playhouse (preschool), Student Connection (before & after school), Teen Scene (Middle School club), Short-Watch (Extension to carpool), Athletics and After School Enrichments.
Betsy has her Child Development credential and has many years of experience in child development and business as well as continued education in business, child care administration, early childhood and the Montessori Method.
Betsy and the Montessori team will continuously prepare the environment of Garden Gate to welcome parents and children into a center that will become their family´s home away from home.
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Holly Simmerson
Curriculum Director
Holly Simmerson has been the Curriculum Director/Preschool- Kindergarten Teacher at Garden Gate Montessori since 2007. Holly has a Montessori Teaching Certificate, is certified in Early Childhood Development, and 15 years experience.
She is proud to have won Child Care provider of the year in 2001 in Maryland and has many years of experience with children age’s infant through school age.
Favorite Quote: “Be yourself everyone else is already taken”.
Hobbies: Reading, softball, camping, fishing, gardening, writing, pets, antiques, science and nature.
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