NUF House North Staff

Anastassia Mekhmandarova

• Moscow State Pedagogical University—Teacher of French and German languages
• Moscow State University in collaboration with Sorbonne University (France)—Diploma- French linguistics
• York University- Masters of Art—Degree in teaching French
• Seneca college – Business administration
• Languages: English, Russian, French

Quote: “Never

               Underestimate your

               Future”

Jenny Chau

• Seneca College, Diploma in Early Childhood Education (RECE)
• Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Quote: “Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”– Jim Rohn

Roksana Babiak

• Registered Early Childhood Educator, George Brown College
• Languages: English & Polish

Quote: “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein

Nataliya Andreyev

• Registered Early Childhood Educator, Seneca College
• Languages: English & Russian

Quote: “Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Desire Mulligan

• Diploma in Early Childhood education, Seneca College
• Language: English

Quote: “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning” – Mr. Rogers

Zhanna Stepanenko

• Pedagogical College #1, Kiev, Ukraine
• Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Quote: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Neven Yousif

• Early Childhood Education, Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood and is currently studying Bachelors degree in Education at York University.
• Language: English

Quote: “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” – ARISTOTLE.

Ludmila Kaufman

• Russian Academy of Music
• Languages: English, Russian, Hebrew

Quote: “Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.” –Plato

Tatyana Rubanovich

• State Pedagogical University Degree in French and German Language
• Languages: English, Russian, Hebrew, French, German

Quote: “The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, ‘ The children are now working as if I did not exist.’”- Maria Montessori

Olena Isaienko

• Kiev University of Economics, bachelor’s degree
• Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

Quote: “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

Inna Hapman

• Education: Bachelor of education, Gordon college Haifa Israel
• Languages: English, Russian, Hebrew

Quote: “The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.” – Jean Piaget