Meet Maestra Letizia Mastromarino
Letizia is a licensed and educated early childhood education professional. She is from Latisanotta, a small town in the Friuli Venezia-Giulia, a north-east region of Italy. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Udine and working for a couple of years, she came to Portland as an Au Pair in 2017. For two years she took care and educated two preschool age kids. During this experience she discovered her passion for being with and educating young children. She returned to Italy and completed a second bachelor’s degree in early child education from the University of Firenze, IUL. She has experience working with kids with various learning needs, including autism. Letizia previously taught at l' Étoile, the French immersion school in southwest Portland, in their preschool program. In her free time, she enjoys baking, doing crafts, spending time outside, walking, and gardening.
Meet Maestra Chiara La Pietra
Chiara comes from Milan, Italy and started as an au pair in New Jersey when she was 19. She got a bachelor and master’s degree in Modern Languages and Translation in the UK at the University of Essex and graduated this past July. She has extensive experience working with kids of different cultural backgrounds and languages. She has travelled the world and lived in five different countries, along with speaking five different languages: Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and German. She really enjoys learning, baking, fashion and nature. Chiara is interested in pursuing her studies in Early Child Education.
Meet Maestra Meagan McCue
Meagan is a recent graduate of PSU where she majored in French language and literature. While studying she worked as a private nanny for a family here in Portland. Prior to PSU, she earned the Child Development Associate Degree and she was a Lead Teacher for several years in different proschools in Portland, including Atlas Immersion Academy in their French Immersion program for three years. She is passionate about language learning and her experience will add new effective techniques to support our childrens' language development. She speaks French and Arabic and will surely pick up Italian in no time. In her free time she enjoys painting, reading, cake decorating, traveling, and spending time with her cats.
