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Kazz Regelman, Executive Director   kazz@gardenhousesf.org

Kazz Regelman is an alumna of Princeton University and a Fulbright Scholar. She has written educational materials for children of all ages through Edusoft, a scholastic testing provider, where she was the Editor and Head Writer. She has written for children’s publications, and several of her articles published in Boys’ Life Magazine were chosen for an education anthology on the best American writing for children.

She has been closely involved with the Concordia Village French and Chinese camps – language-intensive sleep-away camps in Minnesota, as both a camper and a counselor. She was also a counselor in charge of preschoolers – ages 3-5 – at a French sleep-away camp in the village of Anglet, near Biarritz, in southern France, where she was the only non-French person in the camp. She has lived in France, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and Hawaii and firmly believes in exposure to cultural and linguistic diversity at all ages. Her most in-depth experience with children is as the mother of two young children.  Kazz comes from a long-line of educators, and in fact her mother, who recently retired as the principal of a K-3 bilingual private school in the Boston area, is serving as an advisor to The Garden House and Le Jardin Enchanté
 
 

A native of France, Karine holds a Master Diploma in Fine Art from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Annecy, France. Her art work has been displayed in numerous solo and group shows around the world. She has lived in San Francisco for many years, and has taught art and French to adults and children privately, at the now-defunct Purple Crayon, and at the Garden House.  Before moving to San Francisco, Karine was a Teacher Assistant at the Bronx River Art Center in New York City, and since moving here has also worked and trained at other preschool and childcare facilities. She holds a certificate in Early Childhood Education and a California permit as a Child Development Site Supervisor.

 

 

Benedicte Brand

Beny, as Benedicte likes to be called, comes to the Garden House with a wealth of experience teaching young children. Since 2005, she has worked in French and English daycares and preschools in San Francisco and around the Bay Area.  In her native France, she earned a Bachelor of Commercial Communication from Lycee Jean Rostand in Ifs and studied Economic Science at the University of Caen. She is part way towards her Early Childhood Education certificate from Merritt College, with many credits under her belt and actively working on completing the remaining requirements.

 

Mirae Bouyssou


Mirae holds a Bachelor’s Degree in American Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz, where she graduated with the highest honors.  During her undergraduate years, she worked as a Teacher’s Assistant in the Childcare Services at UCSC, and she has also been a camp counselor and private nanny.  Mirae is herself a product of both a bilingual upbringing and French-immersion/bilingual schooling here in the Bay Area, having attended French-American International School and the Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley as a child.  Mirae is an active volunteer in the community for causes dear to her.

 
 

We are committed to hiring exceptional staff members who are qualified, loving and energetic and who are dedicated to encouraging and inspiring your children.  We do our best to provide an excellent environment for our teachers as well as our children and families and have very low teacher turn-over as a result.