Faculty

West Edmonds Coop preschool's teacher for all three classes is Connie Harkleroad. This is her 17th year with WECP and her 27th year as a preschool teacher. She attends monthly training sessions at FLED (Family Life Education Department) on the Edmonds Community College campus. In addition, she continues to attend seminars periodically and she also has an extensive library of Early Childhood books so she can reference information when needed. Over the years, she has also earned credits in Early Childhood Education from Edmonds Community College.

Connie was a member of a coop when her children were young and believes in the system and idea of the coop program as a whole. Throughout her children's elementary school years she was on the Parent Facility Board for 9 years and the middle school board for 4 years.

She has been married for 39 years and has two grown children, a son and a daughter. She also has two wonderful grandchildren, Jacob-12 and Alyssa-10. When she is not our Teacher Connie, in her spare time she enjoys sewing and various crafting projects-card making, scrap booking and simple knitting.

Connie's statement: "I love what I do. It gives me so much joy to watch the children's excitement as they learn or do something new. It can be really simple, like waving goodbye to mom at preschool for the first time or standing in front of the class and showing classmates the book they can "read" or writing the letters of their name! Children make such innocent friendships at this age. Watching these form is amazing! I thank each and every one of you for sharing time with your children with me."