Jennifer Picquet

Director

BS, Elementary Education
​MS, Reading
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2008
jpicquet@northbrookumc.com

Rykie duPlessis

1S LEAD TEACHER

BA, City Planning
MS, City Planning
CDA*
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2008

Carol Erbentraut

Assistant Director

BS, Elementary Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2002
cerbentraut@northbrookumc.com

Audrey Power

1S lEAD tEACHER

BS, Retail Management
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 1991

Julie Ferris

1s Co-teacher

BS, Early Childhood Education
MS, Education
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2010

Alden Reding

1s Assistant 

BA, Sociology
*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2016

Libby Davenport

1s co-teacher

BS, Parks & Recreation
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Libby Davenport

1s assistant

BS, Parks & Recreation
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Lauren Cochell

2s Lead Teacher

BS, Child Development
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2016

Lori Purcell

2s Lead Teacher

BFA, Interior Design
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2000

Rupa Desai

2s  LEAD TEACHER

B.Com, Law
L.L.B, Law
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2003

Jennifer Davis

2s Lead teacher

BA, English
​Teaching Endorsements in Early Childhood, Middle School and High School Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2018

Lisa Cash

2s assistant

ASSOC.,
​*CDA
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2002

Rykie duPlessis

2s Assistant

BA, City Planning
MS, City Planning
​*CDA
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2008

Maria Alaluf

2s assistant

BA, Marketing
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2008

Kimmie Heiser

2s assistant

BA, Fine Arts
BS, Psychology
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2018

Allison Liguori

3s Co-TEacher

BA, Elementary Education
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2016

Lindsay Stockdale

3s co-teacher

BS, Human Ecology
MS, Teacher Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2018

Sami Poppel

3s co-Teacher

BA, Early Childhood Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Heather Oaks

3s Co-teacher

BA, Social Work
MA, Early Childhood Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2016

Kassie Blocker

3s Co-Teacher

BS, Education
​MS, Early Childhood Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2012

Kris Konieczny

3s Co-teacher

BS, Social Work
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2008

Kirsten Brown

3s Co-teacher

BS, Psychology
BS, Fashion Merchandising

MS, Rehabilitation Counseling
​*CDA
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2018

Sara Almstedt

3s Co-Teacher

BA, Elementary Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2011

Jenny Rindt

3s Lead Teacher

BS, Special Education
MS, Inter-related Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2011

Jennifer Smith

3s Assistant

BA, Advertising
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Stafff in 2016

Amy McClelion

Pre-K  Lead Teacher

BA, Early Childhood Education
​MS, Reading
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2014

Anne Moore

Pre-K Lead Teacher

BA, Social Pychology
MS, Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2014

Brenda Burr

Pre-K Co-Teacher

BS, Early Childhood Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2009

Krista Duke

Pre-K Co-teacher

BS,  Special Education
​MS, Special Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2012

Merry Bentley-Barlow

Pre-K Lead Teacher

BS, Human Development/Family Studies
​MS, Early Childhood Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2016

Julie Ferris

PRe-K Lead
​​

BS, Early Childhood Education
​ MS, Education
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2010

Kay Zemke

Pre-K Assistant

BA, English Education
​*CDA
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2007

Liz Meinhardt

Pre-K Assistant

BFA, Photography
​*CDA
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Valerie Szymczak

Pre-K Assistant

BS, Business Education *CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2013

Tricia Skaggs

Young 5s Lead Teacher

BS, Early Childhood Education & Speech Comm.
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Bridget Molle

Young 5s Assistant

*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Karen Hughes

Music Lead Teacher

BA, Music Therapy
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2001

Laura Hensley

Music Assistant

BA, English
Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Liz Favara

Media Specialist

BS, Elementary Education
​MS, Early Childhood Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 1993

Julie Ferris

Chapel Teacher

BS, Early Childhood Education
​MS, Education
​Joined Northbrook in 2010

Maria Alaluf

Spanish teacher

BA, Marketing
​*CDA
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2008

Marianne Borden

ARt teacher

BFA, Fabric Design
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2009

Laurie Radziewicz

Support Specialist

BS, Cognitive Pyschology
​MS, Counseling
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2014

Allison Nichols

Support Specialist

Joined Northbrook Staff in 2017

Carol Froula

Support Specialist

BS, Special Education
​MS, Special Education
​Joined Northbrook Staff in 2015

Maria Quintero

Support Specialist

Joined Northbrook Staff in 2018

*CDA-denotes that the teacher has earned a Child Development Associate credential