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Jan Powell, Area Manager of Spectrum Station LLC
Jan Powell has more than twenty years of experience as an early learning and childcare center director. She has a B.A. in Elementary Education and has successfully directed three different early learning centers in the Northland area of Kansas City, MO for a national corporation. A successful early learning program requires a director with a strong management background, as well as experience in education. Not only does Jan have the educational background needed, she has worked in a management position since 1979.
Jan's professional qualifications and extensive experience equip her for her present position as Executive Director of Spectrum Station Early Learning and Family Resource Center. Her responsibilities as director of the center include the management of all the center operations. She oversees staffing and personnel, financial procedures, facility, curriculum and program development, inservice training of teachers and staff, special activities and resources for the family, and bridging the transitions between school and home.
In addition to her responsibilities as a center director, Jan is very involved with promoting and fostering community relationships. She conducts leadership training and workshops for teachers of other early learning organizations and assists center directors in preparing for the process necessary for accreditation by the QRS, Missouri’s Quality Rating System. Achieving this level of excellence for a childcare center is a coveted milestone in the field of early learning education. She also works closely with the corporate community to establish collaborative partnerships that ensure ongoing, quality education for the young child, as well as positive interactions with the parents.
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Michelle Mannell, Director Of Operations, Northland
"To teach is to touch a life forever," is a phrase that captures the importance of early childhood education and is the primary reason that Michelle chose it as a career. She became associated with childcare while still in college. Her experience includes teaching at all age levels, but pre-kindergarten and school-age children are her favorites. Before joining Spectrum Station LLC, she was an assistant director at a large childcare center in the Northland area for four years.
Michelle joined Jan, the Area Manager of Spectrum Station, in 1999 and was instrumental in helping to organize and open the center. She serves as Director of Operations, facilitates the daily operations of the center, coordinates all special activities for parents, and handles all personnel records and human resources issues, as well as the summer camp program and community relations.
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Tracy Foster, Director of Operations, Platte City
Tracy and her husband, Dave, enrolled their son, Brodie, at Spectrum Station when he was an infant. She loved Spectrum so much she decided to join the team. In October of 2008, Tracy helped organize and open Spectrum Station's second location in Platte City, Missouri.
Tracy graduated from Park University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Theory. After joining the Spectrum team, Tracy went on to complete additional classes focusing on early childhood education. Tracy also has an extensive background in banking and communications and is a perfect fit for our Platte City location.
Tracy, Dave, and Brodie live in Liberty. They spend a lot of time with family and friends and love to go boating!
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Dana Mathews, Financial Director, Northland
Dana is the Financial Director at Spectrum Station. She has worked in the childcare field since 1999. Dana began her career in child care as a lead teacher for a two-year-old program. After that, Dana was promoted to an assistant director's position for a large childcare center in the Northland area with our area manager, Jan. Dana attended Northwest Missouri State University with a major in elementary education and childcare administration.
As Financial Director, Dana's responsibilities include maintaining all financial records for Spectrum families, bookkeeping, conducting parent interviews and tours, and assisting in coordinating and facilitating the daily operations of the center. Dana and her husband are the proud parents of Luke and Layne (who attend school in the Liberty School District), plus twin girls, Jessie and Leigh, who attend the center.
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Sharon Hoevet, Education Director, Northland
Sharon has spent over fifteen years in the child care industry. She's held a variety of positions during that time including lead teacher, center trainer, and assistant director. She spent seven years as a director and completed NAEYC accreditation in her former center. Sharon knows that a quality education is crucial during a child's formative years. This is why she has focused her career on early childhood education. Sharon joined the Spectrum Station team in 2004 to become our Education Director. Her duties include monitoring curriculum implementation and classrooms throughout the center.
Sharon and her husband, Owen, have been married since 1993 and have two wonderful daughters, Gracen and Clara. Sharon has fun with the girls and their busy activity schedules and loves gardening. With her large extended family throughout the Midwest, Sharon keeps herself very active.
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Jenifer Reiter, Administrative Assistant/ Operations, Northland
Jenifer began working with young children immediately after graduating from high school. She quickly decided that this was the career path for her and began taking college classes to earn her Child Development Associates Certification (CDA). She is continuing her college training in early childhood education.
Jenifer has been working with Jan Powell since 1999. She began as a lead infant teacher here at Spectrum Station, then helped coordinate the infant program. Jenifer's duties also include overseeing the management responsibilities in the late evening hours of the center and managing all of our web-based features.
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Denise Gabbert, Administrative Assistant/ Children's Records, Northland
Denise began working in early childhood over twenty years ago as an assistant director with our founder, Jan, for a large early learning program in the Northland. After several years of staying at home with her three sons, Shaun, Jeremy, and Drew, Denise returned to the childcare field in 1999.
Denise graduated from Winnetonka High School and grew up right here in the Northland, where she met and married her high school sweetheart, Jim. The boys keep Jim and Denise extremely busy. In their spare time (which there isn't very much of), Denise and her family enjoy traveling.
Denise's duties include taking care of and updating the children's files.
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Theresa Heath, Hooked On Phonics Instructor, Northland
Theresa originally joined our area manager, Jan, in 1999 and worked in the two-year-old program. She took a short sabbatical to have her second & third daughters and returned to early childhood education. After seven years of experience as a lead teacher, Theresa became the Hooked on Phonics instructor, which was truly a dream come true. She loves to see the path children take as they learn and discover new things. Theresa feels that giving children a firm foundation for learning is the key to success in school.
Theresa and her husband have three beautiful school-aged daughters. Theresa is also a certified portrait photographer and worked with Olan Mills Studios for over 17 years. She still does weddings and private portraits on the weekends. Being an avid photographer helps Theresa in her other passion--scrapbooking! Theresa and her girls love to scrapbook together and spend many hours creating beautiful projects. Theresa and her husband also love cooking together. They strive to do lots of family projects to keep the communication lines always open.
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