PAULA DEMEO, B.S.
PRE-K TEACHER

Paula has been an early childhood educator for over 25 years. A graduate of Bridgewater State College, she started her student teaching in a kindergarten classroom.  After graduating with a BS in Early Childhood Education, she began her career at the L.E.A.P. School in Lexington, MA, first serving as teacher and then, for six years, as curriculum director.  She then spent 12 years as program director at the Concord L.E.A.P. School.

Since her days at L.E.A.P., Paula has worked as a traveling science teacher for Wicked Cool For Kids ages 5-8 at the Green Meadow School in Maynard and also as a lead pre-school teacher at the Lemberg Children’s Center at Brandeis University in Waltham.  She is a 300-hour trained YogaKids teacher since 2013, and obtained her 200-hour adult yoga teacher training from Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA in 2015.

Paula is passionate about teaching children through science and nature, creative arts, yoga, movement, and social and emotional intelligence practices.  She shares her positive energy, problem solving tools, and joy in teaching with all her students and colleagues.