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Teacher of the year!

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Teacher of the year!

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2020 Teacher of the Year: Megan Forstner

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Teacher of the year!

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2020 Teacher of the Year: Samantha Theoret

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Lee,

Take a look at the following video of our teachers, Billy and myself delivering signs to all of our students in April. It also shows wonderful photos of our students being surprised at their homes.   This was right before we decided to reopen in May.   The video is know available on YouTube @ https://youtu.be/nHYo9Q126xI  as well as our School's Facebook page @ https://www.facebook.com/GoddardSchoolSimpsonvilleSC/ .  We hope that you have time to take a look at it, because we are so proud of the video.

I hope you and your family are all safe and well.

Melanie Hyatt

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Hey Guys,

My school reached out to me and wrote an article about me. It mentions our online platform and school, so I wanted to share the link with you. I'm so grateful for the opportunity and it definitely gives our school great recognition.

Erin

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Erin Luna continues to keep her pre-schoolers busy while everyone is learning from home.

When New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced that schools across the state would be closed due to the rapid spread of Covid-19, teachers and their students sprang into action online.

For senior Erin Luna, who teaches pre-school in West Orange, the change was something she was ready for thanks to the classes she already had in instructional technology. Using online platforms, including a virtual display board app called Padlet, along with YouTube, TedEd, and Zoom, Luna has continued teaching and interacting with her students every day since the stay at home order began.

She is building on many of the computer-based practices she employed in the classroom before the shelter at home order took effect. At school, Luna's students were learning Spanish, American Sign Language, art, music, creative writing and more. When her students moved to remote learning, the class brought those activities along

Tapping online resources and her own creativity to make learning fun for her class of 20 youngsters.

One of Luna's favorite resources for online collaboration has been the Padlet app, which she uses to create "a strong virtual learning experience for her students." Word about her success with Padlet caught on within the school's network and it is now being used in pre-schools as far away as Colorado. Luna also records lessons she posts on YouTube. She developed her own TedEd videos to supplement at-home activities for her students. Luna's class is keeping busy with crafts, science experiments, and activity sheets. She also gets together with her students individually and meets with her entire class for weekly Zoom meetings. While on Zoom, student share a special activity, like show-and-tell or an art project. Luna says the experience helps "shed some light during this difficult time." As a result of the covid-19 crisis, Luna's school has welcomed new students whose parents are first responders, medical doctors, and other professionals. "It's difficult not seeing my students each day; they are a family to me. I have a bond with every one of my students that I am trying to keep up with virtually."

"Erin is tapping into the skills she gained in her program, which emphasizes using technology in the classroom," explains Joseph Martinelli, director of Instructional Design and Technology program at the College of Education and Human Services. "She has been a joy to have in the classroom, and seeing her integrate the tech skills taught in the course into her own classroom has been most rewarding, especially as we all made the transition from in person to online teaching."

She is building on many of the computer-based practices she employed in the classroom before the shelter at home order.

A resident of Woodland Park, New Jersey, Luna earned her associate's degree from Bergen County Community College and is pursuing her elementary teaching certification at Seton Hall. She'll graduate in May with her bachelor's degree in Social and Behavioral Science and has already begun working toward her master's degree in Special Education and Certificate of Eligibility of Advanced Standing (CEAS).

Right now, Luna's scheduled is packed. "It has been difficult to say the least, but worth every second," she says. And while hosting class meetings on Zoom was not something she ever imagined doing, Luna says learning for both her and her students, has continued uninterrupted. "I believe my professors have done an amazing job accommodating all of their students. This experience has not altered my passion for teaching, but instead has enhanced it by giving me a challenge so early in my career."

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Education Student Inspires Her Preschoolers Online - Seton Hall University

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Erin Luna continues to keep her pre-schoolers busy while everyone is learning from home. When New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced that schools across the state would be closed due to the rapid spread of Covid-19, teachers and their students sprang into action online.

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Good Afternoon All,

Thank you for the heartfelt video and letter for our teachers this year the celebratory week is sure to be a great one!

This year for teacher appreciation we are taking them to the movies. Each day is a themed genre, starting with romantic comedies and a hosted brunch. We even made each of our teachers into a coming soon movie poster! Enjoy

Thank you again for the resources and time spent making them feel valued.

Kind Regards,

Lauren Budimir

Onsite Owner

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Hi Dennis & Team,

Thank you for the heartfelt message to share with faculty and the fun video! They loved it!

Our amazing faculty indulged another of our ideas for a fun video to send to families that incorporated every faculty member. Hope it brings you a smile!

Run Teachers Run!

We wish you well!

Erin

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Lee,

I meant to email you back earlier. We got busy with opening back up. Today is our first day opening back up. We had a good response with children coming back for a May 4th re-opening. We had over 100 children scheduled to come back this week. This was a little more than we thought we would have.  I think the response we’ve had is mainly due to the e-learning program that GSI has implemented. You can really tell that it has made an impact with the children, parents, and even the staff. We also did a few other thing for our children/staff to help keep morale up and keep the “togetherness” of our school in place.  It all started with the virtual learning as this gave us a way to connect with everyone. We appreciate all the support and work everyone is putting in to help. It’ll definitely pay off soon. Thanks. Bill

Bill Hyatt

Owner

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Goddard School Denville- Teacher Appreciation

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Applied over a month ago with my business banker at Chase (who I’ve been with for 30 years) and my SBA lender ReadyCapital (customer for over 8 years) for the PPP loan. They were useless and MIA. Applied with the GSI referral First Bank this morning and within four hours was approved by the SBA and have a loan number to be funded next week. Unbelievable.

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Ms. Teri, Ms. Carrie and Ms. Alicia,

What a wonderful surprise!! Lily's face absolutely lit up when she saw the video and your thoughtful and sweet messages for her. She loved hearing your voices and seeing your faces, and we can tell she misses you all dearly. She definitely needs some "hug time" once we are all through this!

We also wanted to express our sincere gratitude for the effort you put into the at home packages. It was a fun surprise to see Mr. Dave this morning in front of our house and receive a personalized packet just for Lily. She tore right into it and enjoyed coloring and pasting her number 6 and then making the grass head person. She also enjoyed the color by numbers from last week and took great pride in her work. It is a true testament to the passion and love you bring to her education day in and day out.

We hope you are all staying safe and healthy!

Adam, Courtney, Lily and Jack

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Good Morning Rich,

We hope you and your family doing well! Hope everything gets better soon it’s so chaotic.

We did our drive thru parade yesterday for all the families, it was a great turn out!! Just wanted to share the video :)

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Thank you notes from families

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Goddard at Home through Zoom

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If you need a Friday pick me up, watch this adorable video of a Goddard School student happily singing along with his teacher, virtually!

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Jill Harris Thank you for all you do! ❤️ We can’t wait to get back to school when things return to normal. ❤️ Stay healthy and safe!

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Parade Photos

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Parade Photos

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Parade Photos

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Parade Photos

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Good Afternoon All,

Rather than another cup of coffee as a pick me up view this video that we created for our Families during WOYC on Family Friday it is sure to cause you to smile. With inspiration from the Goddard systems video, we created our version. We hope you enjoy! Thank you, on behalf of all of our families and faculty for all that you are doing to help our school and families through this unprecedented time.

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Here’s to helping you end the week on a positive note! Thank you for all of your continued leadership and support!

Cheers,

Erin & Lissa

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Staying Busy & Staying Healthy from your Goddard Family!

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Hopefully this will bring each of you a smile and help everyone step away for 2 minutes from some of the uncertainties we are all facing together, while we are apart.  By sending this now, hopefully you will have a chuckle all weekend, and I won’t need to face the Team here until Monday.

Be safe, be smart, be strong, BE HAPPY,

Michael

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We appreciate the videos! We miss our teachers! Stay safe and hope to see you soon!

-Miles Griffith and family

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Goddard at Home
Happy Wednesday!

I wanted to pass along that I have received amazingly positive feedback from the at home packets that were on Connect.  Families really appreciated them.

Keep up the great work!

Stay healthy and safe!

Carrie

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Goddard at Home Kudos sent to Lisa Hoy!

Thank you—this is helpful!
Olivia Higgins, Director

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From Parents (shared by Goddard at Wappingers Falls, NY):

Thanks so much for these activities!  Greg and I are both juggling working from home with 'creative' schedules while having Kiah home. She is teaching us how to have a dance party every afternoon. We have joked that she is showing us what the Goddard Schedule was by asking us to participate in different activities with her. We are keeping a good routine, and enjoying so much laughter with her.

We love The Goddard School! You guys are the best. Thank you for this guide. I've been trying to do double-duty as a middle school teacher and now a Pre-K teacher for Anthony too. Kudos to you all, and tell his teachers I appreciate all that they do too. So far he's having fun in Mommy's "classroom" at home, but I'm POSITIVE he listens better to Ms. Casey and Ms. Felecia than he does to me! ??

From Schools:

These are fantastic!  Thank you! (Laurie Hoffman, Director Florham Park, NJ)

Thank you—this is helpful! (Olivia Higgins, Director Parsippany, NJ)

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Yes, I’m THAT director!!! I sent this to my parents today…
I hope it makes you smile as much as it made me giggle as I was putting it together!!!

I’m out of the office until March 31…so find another director to lighten your spirits until then! J

Stay healthy!!

Bridget Ringel

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Goddard at Home Kudos sent to Lisa Hoy!

These are fantastic!  Thank you!

Laurie Hoffman, Director

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Good Day to all of you and thank you for helping us through this Covid-19 situation.  These are new territories that no of us have ever had to venture through and I appreciate your guidance and support.

We did receive the waiver and I chose to re-open for care stressing that we sought this to help our families that our essential personnel (as we have numerous families that fit that category) .  We still have MANY families that are not attending and we want them to feel supported during this time so we have our teachers and assistants creating videos and simple ideas to send to families.

I wanted to share this one from my Pre-K teacher.  Hopefully it brings a slight smile to you during I’m sure very stressful times for you as well.
Stay healthy,

Tricia McKay

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Friends Make Me Feel Razzmatazz Read Aloud with Mr. Chris

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Raleigh II NC Earns Cognia Accreditation!

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Raleigh II NC Earns Cognia Accreditation!

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Subject: Cognia Accreditation

Karie/Laura/Craig/Bill,

Please see the attached letter.  We just got it.  Our Cognia re-accreditation will be granted on March 31, 2020, and the official letter & certificate will be sent to us soon after.

Thanks,

Malay

Vineeta & Malay Jindal, Owners

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Distance Learning:
This is so fantastic and we appreciate all the work it takes to pull something like this together!!  Sending good thoughts your way,

Megan
Thank you for providing the materials!  Ryan  is very excited when seeing Ms. Olenwine online! 🙂

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Activity 6: Book - The Dinosaurs are Having a Party

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Activity 5: Book - If the Dinosaurs Came Back

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Activity 2: Book - Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur

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Here is a picture of Eden’s Dino Habitat.

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Thank you so much! What a treat and thanks for sending educational resources!

Be Well!
This is an amazing idea.  Sure, kids can watch plenty of YouTube videos where someone they don't know reads a St. Patrick's Day story, but kids LOVE watching someone they know on video.  Thank you Ms. Bassett!

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Activity 1: Book - How to Catch a Leprechaun

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That was amazing! My kids loved it! Thank you
Awesome job, Ms. Bateman!
Thank you, Aanvi was very happy seeing Ms. Bateman!
This is the sweetest thing!! This just made Miles’s day!! Thank you so much!! We miss you guys so much already!

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Activity 1: Book - How to Trap a Leprechaun

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Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Ellis was enthralled and couldn't stop staring -- and trying to hug her through the screen! We took a little video for Ms. Bringas if you wouldn't mind sharing with her. We know that Ellis misses her lots!

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Activity 1: Book - Baby's First St Patrick’s Day

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That's so sweet!! Aravinda loved it so much that she already watched it bunch of times so far :) She is missing her school, teachers and friends already. Hope all this chaos ends very soon and we all can get back to our normal routine asap..fingers crossed!

See you all soon..

Stay safe and healthy.

- Sujatha (Aravinda's mom)

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Surprise for our Bear Friends!

Jim Worley

Thank you! My boys loved it!
Please convey our gratitude to Ms. Olenwine!

Peter S & family

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Activity 2: Book - How To Catch a Leprechaun

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Hi Craig & Lee,

Thanks!

I wanted to send along a “YOU ROCK!” to you and the team.  The At Home Guides and other material that are being distributed are incredibly helpful!

Thanks for helping keep our children and parents engaged!

Ciao for now,

Dave

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Educational Advisory Board Webinars for Families
Hi Craig,

This is great! I am sure our families are going to appreciate it! Thank you for all you do!

Parina Mehta

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Craig,

This is awesome, as are all of the educational resources. Our families are LOVING the Goddard At Home stuff and are looking forward to new material as it comes out. Y'all rock and we are thankful for you.

Stay safe, and wash your hands,

Chris

Hey, please tell the rest of the GSI team that I'm keeping them in my thoughts and prayers. We don't say it enough, we couldn't do this without you and you are ALL doing a yeoman's job though this crazy ride that NOBODY has ever navigated before.

God bless,

Chris

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Hi Craig,

This is awesome! Our parents have already given us great responses.  If a parent is unable to watch it live, will  you be offering a recorded version?

Hope all is well!

Kristen Agaman

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Educational Advisory Board Webinars for Families
Craig:

This will be very helpful. Thank you!!

Will we be able to get a link of the recording to share for those who cannot participate?

Many of our families are working from home.

Nita

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Hi Craig –

Today’s Goddard At Home Webinar with Dr. Kyle Pruett & Lee Scott

I enjoyed today’s webinar.  Thank you for setting these up so we can give these valuable videos to our families while most of them are home with their little ones.  The only thing that was said in the video that I want to point out so we can be careful about this in future videos is when they talked about social distancing.  Kyle said that our youngest students should be kept in small groups of only a couple of kids, however, all our Missouri schools are still open for essential personnel, health care workers, and first responders during the stay-at-home orders for our counties.  We just are not to exceed 10 people per classroom, no mixing of classrooms, no mixing of teachers (so they stay with the same group all day), etc.  Our parents can then feel anxiety if they listen to this video of what Kyle is telling them even though we are following our county guidelines.

Thank you again Craig for the at-home activities for our families and the videos.

Marla Brunk

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Thank you Craig!

I want to share with you some feedback from one of our families. 😊

Have a good day,

Maria
Hope you all are doing well and staying healthy!

Julio and Maria Ibarra

Webinar!! Goddard at home resources

This is awesome! Thank you for helping us out during these trying times!

Brookie is sad she cannot see her friends right now. She is mad at the Corona Virus and says she wants to use her ninja skills to beat it up!

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We wanted to take a moment to thank you and your team for all of your hard work in supporting the brand through this monumental challenge. We have appreciated the daily briefings, the weekly market calls and the recent webinars. We agree with the notion that this challenge represents an opportunity to show up for our teachers and families the very best that we can, which will have an impact long after this pandemic subsides. Thank you for your strong leadership in encouraging schools to embrace this challenge!

We wanted to share this fun video that we put together with our entire faculty. Hopefully it can help you all start your week with a smile!

Thank you,

Erin & Lissa

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Kim is at it again! She shared two more children joined their Goddard family by registering this week!

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Laura,

Here is a video compilation of our eLearning for you guys, I hope you enjoy!!
Tina Bright

Curriculum Coordinator

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Hello Donna,

I wanted to let you know that when I stopped in to school to grab the mail and check messages, I did hear your sweet message!  I saved it so Bess can listen to it also!

Thank you so much for your kind words.  It means so much all the time, but especially now with all of this uncertaintity.  We are closed for the time being, but we are trying our best to stay connected.  It has been very hard on the faculty (they all miss their kids, but zoom has helped and so have videos).  It has been so hard on the parents (it is not easy juggling working with young children), and it has been hard on me ( I worry about everyone during this time and I am very anxious to get open again where we can all be together).

I did scan in your thank you card and send it to all of my faculty too.  They need to hear great things from outsiders too.  Please know that Bess and I are here if you ever need anything or if your trainees need anything.

I hope you are doing well during this unsettling time.  I really do appreciate your reaching out, probably more than I can ever put into words.

Thank you!!

Sincerely,

Genelle Craig

Owner/Operator

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Hi, Craig – Here’s another family update from the home front! – Elizabeth

The Goddard School – Denver (City Park West)

Martin & Elizabeth Meier
Maura,

THANK YOU for the zoom “Everyday Learning” today with Rabbits!!

Hannah LOVED seeing her friends. She has been telling us everyday that she misses them. We also did this activity plan today and have attached some pictures of Hannah’s construction work…

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Illinois  prohibits any advertising until a school is licensed so Soumya's best hope to generate leads is social media right now.  She is so appreciative of the Goddard at Home materials that are providing her the content to engage with prospective families.  She has 25 leads from no advertising.  Virtual tours with her Ipad are going well and I'm eager to share the virtual tour PPT that Brian, Caitlyn and team are creating as an added reinforcement of those tours! Thank you team!

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The email below also credits Kareema and team!  Husna took ownership of her transfer school in March and found the ed program lacking. Our team sprang into action.

Thank you so much Donna, I spoke with Bela as well today and with everyone’s help and support, I am sure we can come up with a plan and implement it. Loretta and Bela have sent me links to several resources and I am looking them up and will have the team not only undergo the training but also implement it. I am having my directors both sign up for this and feel its much needed.

Best regards,

Husna Mohammed

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Alyson registered 2 children in the past week!  Both are slated for the fall and while construction has been delayed, she remains positive and is working with Dolly to do virtual tours of their Bethlehem school.   She sends thanks to all for the support materials! They are using them in their "Distance Learning Library".

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Kim remains so positive even as she just opened in February. Her thought is market interest in her school grows as more families become overwhelmed with their little ones home during this time. She's still touring as of now and is working on her virtual tour. She's registered 5 in the last few days due to start in June and she continues to market to her 315 leads. Even now she's thrilled with her decision to open a Goddard School and says she knows this is what she was meant to do!

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Dennis,

Just a quick thank you to the staff for hosting the webinars the last two days.  They have been tremendously helpful to me.  Also, Crystal Keehn is an absolute hero in this – just wanted to put in kudos for her and her level of round-the-clock support!

Stay well,

Paula Janmey

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Goddard co-workers…I could not resist sending a quick email to you all!  Brenda and I are blown away with the incredible assistance and support you have offered!  Your efforts are astonishing and absolutely appreciated and recognized by you all!  I have spoken to a good hundred plus Franchisees and it is echoed by them.  Special thank you to Crystal Keehn, Eric Gustafsson, and Heidi Ricci for the direct support!

I have been involved with Goddard one way or another for 21 years and although I may be quite biased, there is no Franchise that defines the sense of Family like you all!

Thank you, thank you…we overwhelmed with appreciation!

Eric and Brenda Walker

Owners- Bel Air, MD

Stay positive and STAY WELL

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Tammy Frommelt is so thrilled with the support she is receiving from GSI that she sent an email directly to Dennis thanking him and sending kudos to the team.  She was blown away that Dennis took the time to respond back directly to her.  She sends many thanks to Craig and the entire education team for all of the supporting materials her team is tapping into. She couldn't wait to share a picture of her new sign  she is so proud to hang in her school  Talk to her for a minute and you'll agree she is truly a Goddard ambassador!