Early Childhood Teachers

Sunflower Preschool Lead Teacher

Carolina Plowman

Carolina’s bio is coming soon!

Starflower Kindergarten Lead Teacher

Beth Daly

Beth was born the youngest of five daughters and spent her early years in rural Minnesota. A life filled with farm animals, gardening, farming, horseback riding, and outdoor meanderings and adventures shaped Beth's love for creatures great and small, interest in plants, cooking, art inspired by the seen and unseen natural world, and a love for the imaginative freedom and wonder of the early childhood years.
Beth pursued the arts and botany in higher education, attending Minnesota State University, Reed College in Portland, Burren College of Arts in Ireland, and Rocky Mountain School for Botanical Studies in Colorado. Beth has owned her own business and has been a home funeral educator, though her main devotions have been as a mother, a Waldorf early childhood educator, and to the meditative arts and storytelling.
Beth received her Waldorf Teacher Training certificate from Waldorf Teacher Education Eugene (WTEE) in 2016, in addition to a certificate in Waldorf Early Childhood Therapeutic and Development Movement in Denver, Colorado. She has been teaching at the Eugene Waldorf School since 2012 and is the Early Childhood Director of Waldorf Teacher Training Eugene.

Rose Kindergarten Teacher

Jessica Hin

Jessica was born and raised in San Diego, California where she spent most of her days outdoors. She graduated from California State University having studied human development with an emphasis in child development.
After college she moved to Europe where she worked and traveled for a year.
When she returned to San Diego she got a job as a Behavioral Therapist with the YMCA social service department working with elementary school kids.
After having her first child, and reading The Conscious Parent, she became more aware than ever of how important it is to raise children consciously. She was introduced to Waldorf education when she was exploring options for her son who was about to enter kindergarten and knew it was exactly what she wanted for her two children.
She was actively involved in the Waldorf community in San Diego and has a deep passion for working with children. In her free time, she enjoys gardening, being in nature with her two sons, creating community, and staying dedicated to her spiritual practices.

Rosebuds Family/Child Class

Elizabeth Jarvis

Bio coming soon!

Lilypad Preschool Teacher

Tammy Betzko

After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies, Tammy worked with children and families in social work and therapeutic contexts. Finding that these contexts did not always feel respectful to the child, she took time to reset in the forests and waters of Pennsylvania and Vermont, living almost completely outdoors for five years. Upon turning 28 and in search of purpose anew, she found Waldorf Education. Seeing almost immediately that it was a child-centered paradigm, respectful to their nature, she entered the full-time program at Sunbridge College in NY where she completed her MSEd in Waldorf Early Childhood as well as a certification in Biodynamic Agriculture.
Tammy has been teaching in both Waldorf early childhood and grades settings for 13 years. She also deeply values having spent the last 15 years participating in and eventually facilitating energetic, inner-development and trauma work for adults.
Tammy is happily Mama to Eä (pre-school) and Ukiah (8th grade), loving how the three of them simply delight in one another. She is glad and grateful to be joining this community.

Lilypad Preschool Assistant and Preschool Robin’s Nest Co-Teacher

Elizabeth Starr Lilly

Elizabeth’s Bio coming soon!

Sunflower Preschool Assistant and Kindergarten Robin’s Nest Assistant

Mariko Korican-Pentagram

Mariko is the eldest of three girls. She attended five different Waldorf Schools between Kindergarten and Sixth Grade on both US coasts, before settling in Olympia, Washington where her mother was a founding teacher of the Olympia Waldorf School. Moving a lot made her adaptable, approachable and outgoing.
During high school she immersed herself in the performing arts, acting and singing her true loves. After graduating high school she moved to Seattle. Washington where she attended Cornish College of the Arts theater program.
While traveling in Germany, she met a German fellow, got married and moved to Berlin, where she lived for 17 years. During her life in Germany, Mariko wore many hats. She was lead singer in a rock band, owned her own secondhand clothing sales/costume rental shop, worked as a private childcare provider and attended the Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher training at Forum Kreuzberg, Berlin. She assisted in both a large Waldorf Kindergarten and an after school program for grade school children. Mariko finds much joy working with children of all ages.
After moving back to the US in 2012, Mariko married her husband Christo and their son Sage was born in 2015. In 2019 they moved to beautiful Eugene.
Mariko, Christo and Sage are very happy to be involved in the lovely EWS community.

Roving Robin’s Nest Assistant

Judy Li

Mrs. Judy grew up in a scenic city in the south of China, which is surrounded by karsts. She had a deep connection with nature during her childhood and was joyful when she immersed in nature. Mrs. Judy received a Bachelor of Engineering from Guangxi University and had been working in the semiconductor industry for more than 20 years. She encountered the Waldorf education when she was exploring education methods for her son. The nurturing environment and the enthusiasm of teachers inspired her passion in education and she completed Waldorf Teacher Training in both Grades and Early Childhood in 2024.
Mrs. Judy is delighted to join the EWS family and looks forward to a joyful journey with the children.

Preschool Robin’s Nest Assistant

Prempreet Wrinkle

Bio coming soon!

Starflower Kindergarten Assistant

Melissa Beard

bio is coming soon!