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Meet our Staff
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Vrinda Mushran
Director
Teacher Vrinda is passionate about education, the outdoors, cooking, art, music, languages, and effortful living. A Kashmiri Pandit, born and raised in Rajasthan, India, she is fluent in English, Hindi, and basic Spanish. Vrinda founded the Avid Kids Circle program and teaches daily, year-round. Vrinda believes that ages 1-5 years are the most critical in human development but least recognized. Avid Kids Circle is her wish school where Vrinda works with 15+ month olds to 5+ year old children feeding her passion for teaching along with a like-minded community of teachers and parents.
Vrinda has always been an avid teacher. Her initial exposure to preschoolers was at her father's preschool program in India where she worked during her high school/college years. She taught Mathematics and Biology to middle-schoolers (grades 6-8) for a year at a grades 4-12 boarding/residential school (Mayo College Girls' School, Ajmer, India) after achieving her undergraduate degree (BA Honors in Psychology) from Indraprastha College, Delhi University, India. Every moment of teaching preschoolers or middle-schoolers was loved but similar to many young persons, Vrinda chose to continue her academic pursuits with an MBA in Human Resource Management from NMIMS, Mumbai, India, and a Certificate in Computer Applications Development from College of San Mateo, San Mateo, USA. After 18 years of software development as an individual contributor, Manager, and Director of Engineering, Vrinda resumed her passion for teaching by founding Avid Kids Circle. Vrinda Mushran also has an Associate of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education (ECE) from Cañada College, Redwood City, USA.
Trina Chan
Teacher (Full Time)
Teacher Trina joined Avid Kids Circle in November 2022. She is a SF Bay Area native, born in San Francisco and raised in South San Francisco. She is a mother to two daughters who has cared for and taught children for over 20 years. She is fluent in English and also knows French.
Teacher Trina has a Bachelors Degree in Early Childhood Education. She has worked for 10 years as a preschool teacher and for 10 years as a nanny. Teacher Trina hopes to be a positive, inspiring impact on children’s lives. By working together with a dedicated team of educators and parents, she wants to instill our future generation with good ideals, thoughts, and interesting things about life.
Outside of the classroom, Teacher Trina is active in the community. She volunteers at food banks, organizes fundraisers, and campaigns for local politicians. Teacher Trina believes the best way she can help improve/enrich our community is to give back and be involved. Avid Kids Circle classroom in a short time has benefited from her smiles, arts or craft ideas, direction and attention to details.
Delia Araceli Diaz Sierra (Ara)
Part-Time Teacher
Teacher Ara joined Avid Kids Circle in August 2024. Raised in Mexico City, Teacher Ara is fluent in Spanish and English. A resident of Burlingame, she has been working independently with newborns, infants, and toddlers for the past 10 years in the Burlingame/San Mateo areas. Working with kids is her passion. She loves creating a good environment, having conversations, reading, teaching good manners, doing activities and crafts, exploring outdoors, and creating amazing bonds. She wished to work with more kids instead of 1:1 and to provide more parents the comfort and security of having someone trustworthy teaching their little ones. She hopes to gain more experience and educate herself in Early Childhood Education. Teacher Ara will be running our Spanish Language Group Time on Fridays. A single mother of two daughters (20+ years), Teacher Ara brings experience, energy, and love for children into our classroom. Besides children, she loves to bake, drink coffee, and take long walks.
Barbora Brehovska
Specialist Teacher (Music)
Barbora teaches weekly music lessons at Avid Kids Circle. She is fluent in English and Czech languages aside from the language of music. She joined the program in August, 2018. An accomplished musician and teacher, Barbora's lessons span songs, rhythm, beats, musical patterns, instruments, movement and much more.
Barbora has a Masters Degree in Music and Czech Language from University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic. She is also the Director of Education and Teacher at the Czech School of California in the Bay Area where she teaches 1st and 2nd grade Czech Language to preschoolers and young age children. Barbora has a Certificate in Early Childhood Education (ECE) from Canada College, Redwood City, USA. Teacher Barbora's interests are teaching and working with children, music, hiking, skiing and jazzercise. Teacher Barbora and Vrinda met through a common ECE class and enjoy collaborating over their mutual interests, most of all enriching minds of young children.
Deepti Jain
Specialist Teacher (Mindfulness)
Teacher Deepti teaches weekly mindfulness lessons at Avid Kids Circle. She is fluent in English and Hindi languages. She joined the program in August, 2018. Development of mindfulness in children and staff to better control our emotions is a much needed area of learning for all. It is easy to loose patience, calm and thought for the present moment weighed by the past, our individual triggers, and our anxieties. Teacher Deepti injects her learnings and reminds us to be in the present moment, thoughtful in our words and actions through many techniques/games/art/conversations that makes the subject matter relatable to our young audience. She also uses her passion for art and craft to help our students explore their creativity and enjoy artful mindfulness.
Teacher Deepti has a Masters in Chemistry from Delhi University, India. She is also a certified Mindfulness professional. Her first career was in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Pfizer and Amgen) before she embarked on her teaching journey. She has part-time teaching credentials and has worked as a substitute teacher in the San Mateo Foster City School District. She has been working in the fields of meditation and mindfulness with adults as well as kids since 2016. Teacher Deepti also conducts mindfulness lessons in the Burlingame schools.
Vasudha Wanchoo
Education Consultant and Substitute Teacher
Teacher Vasudha/Vasu is a linguist, educator, avid hiker, biker and strong believer in mindful and compassionate living. She is fluent in English, Hindi and Spanish languages. Vasudha has been a part of Avid Kids Circle since its inception in 2017. She has been an inspiration to Teacher Vrinda to return to her love for education.
Vasudha holds a Bachelor and Masters in Spanish Language and Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She also completed 3+ years of pre-doctoral coursework from University of Granada, Granada, Spain in Translation Studies. Teacher Vasu moved into education and non-profit organizational leadership after a 10+ years career in educational publishing as a Bilingual Managing Editor for elementary and middle school content for all subject areas. She is the Managing Director at Jhamtse Gatsal Children's Community (http://jhamtsegatsal.org/) for the last 7+ years which is a home and learning center to 100+ orphaned/abandoned children in Arunachal Pradesh, India. She is assisted by a dedicated staff of 40+ along with donors, supporters and volunteers from all around the world. When not at Avid Kids Circle, she is in Boston, traveling to connect with like-mind-hearted people or at the Jhamtse Gatsal community in Arunachal Pradesh, India, leading a wide range of executive responsibilities, but above all collecting infinite hugs and smiles from children healing from trauma and taking their place in the world as compassionate leaders.
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