Congratulations to our Employee of the Season – Winter 2024

May 2, 2025/
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Congratulations to our Employee of the Season:

Victoria Ballou

Congratulations to our Employee of the Season - Winter 2024

Shout out to Victoria Ballou– our Employee of the Winter Season!

Victoria has been with Dr Day Care since July 2019! She holds the position of Preschool Teacher at DDC North Providence.

Congratulations Victoria!

Congratulations to our Employee of the Season - Winter 2024
Some feedback from coworkers includes:

I would like to nominate Victoria Ballou for the Employee of the season. I have had the privilege of watching Victoria grow into the amazing person and teacher she has become. Victoria started out as an infant teacher and has worked her way up into our Lead teacher in Preschool 1. She has grown leap and bounds in developing her own teaching style. She takes direction and immediate puts it into action. She is playful and intentional with what she is teaching through play. She is currently in our TEACH program to obtain her bachelors degree and recently graduated from the LearnERS program. She is always looking for ways to improve her craft. She loved by all staff and every parent whose child has had her. Every challenge we give her she meets and then goes above and beyond expectation. I can not express how proud I am of her and her accomplishments.


I am nominating Victoria because of her dedication to our center, the children in her classroom and their families. Each day Victoria challenges the children with new and innovative activities. She truly embraces that learning should be done while at play. Victoria is able to remain calm and smile in difficult situations and help guide children in a kind and gentle way when they are not meeting classroom expectations. She continues her studies at RIC to improve her practice and has completed LearnERS with a 4.29 overall score. In addition, Victoria always rises to any challenge given to her.

Other nominees:

Ayana Carter
Ayana has led an incredible transformation in the therapeutic toddler room that she began working in this past fall. It is now clean, organized, structured and FUN and the children who get to attend every day are growing and developing with her loving guidance. We and they are so thankful to have Ayana as part of our team!
 
Hannah Menard
Hannah is such an asset to our Preschool team. She creates great learning experiences for her class, and is helpful with the other preschool class as well. Hannah welcomes new members of our team and helps them learn and grow with us!
 
Haley Britto
Haley has been officially Assistant Admin for a few months now, and since that time she has stepped up for Greystone in a major way. Students feel very comfortable with Miss Haley and she always has a really fun activity planned for curriculum. On top of that, she has started some great partnerships for Kids Klub, including doing a food drive to support Veterans. Haley is someone who is very passionate about her work with the kids and it is very rare to see someone who cares as much about her kids as Haley does. Kids Klub is very lucky to have someone like Haley on our staff.
 
Marissa Turcotte
Marissa absolutely deserves Employee of the Season for all the hard work and heart she puts into our afterschool program. She goes above and beyond every day, making sure both the kids and staff feel supported, encouraged, and excited to be here. Whether it’s coming up with fun activities, handling challenges with patience, or keeping everything running smoothly, she does it all with a positive attitude. She’s always there to lend a hand, offer advice, and create a welcoming space for everyone. Her passion for working with kids is obvious, and the impact she’s made on the program is huge. We’re lucky to have her leading our site!
 
Joseph Capaldi
Joe is an amazing work and human. He always works hard and makes sure the kids are happy and safe. He works three titles and manages to get it all done.
 
Victoria Latham
Victoria is always ready to do whatever it takes to the job done as assistant admin. She is always reliable and a team player. Victoria consistently demonstrates a high level of creativity and originality in her work, which helps the success of our team. She cares not only about her daily duties, but each child and their families. She always comes to work with a smile and positive attitude that is congestion amongst her peers. Victoria is a great asset to Dr. Daycare East Greenwich and my daily partner.
 
Kelsey Farrell
Kelsey is dedicated, hard working, an excellent example, and overall a stand up employee!
 
Amelia Jackson
Amelia has been an amazing team player and co admin. She plans all our crafts for our center daily and the students love them. She is super patient and is amazing at problem solving with the students to make sure their needs are met. She is great at communicating with the parents and helping me with my site duties when im not present. She has been an excellent co admin to me for my site and i really appreciate her.
 
Rebeccaa Davilla
After working with Miss Rebecca over this past April vacation, I noticed she goes above and beyond for every single child. Her patience and kind manner is exactly what Kids Klub needs. She is an excellent role model for the staff and the students. It was a pleasure to work with her and look forward
 
Miranda Snyder
Miranda is always smiling and happy to help. She has been promoted to Admin Assistant at DDC Central Falls because she is an asset to the team and wants to support others. She’s such an amazing assistant admin/co worker always helping out and never taking a break literally! always giving good advice for the classroom and always willing to listen to new ideas. also such a joy with the parents and all the children love her

Meghann Butler
Meghann is a very hard worker who is balancing school with working at Kids Klub. She is constantly getting sent to other sites and is vert flexible with that. With this, she has become a face at several sites, making relationships with staff as well as lasting impressions on the students. She would be a great pick for employee of the season!
 
Edith Baptista
Edith is an amazing teacher, coworker and person overall. She is super reliable and a genuine sweetheart. She is one of the hardest workers I know and remains positive through it all! She is truly inspirational. She is the idea of a star employee. The children love her, and she showers them in such warm affection. Edith has been nothing but an asset to the Central Falls location ever since she was hired. Edith is an amazing person and teacher. She is a hard worker who goes above and beyond for her classroom, peers and the center. She has perfect attendance, shows up to every meeting and is willing to work overtime if needed. Edith began working for DDC CF one year ago with no experience in the field at all and you wouldn’t even know. She helps in any way she can and is always willing to learn. She steps into any role and performs. Her peers, the children as well as the families absolutely love and appreciate her. Her professionalism also stands out as she assists Miranda and I in the office daily. One of her amazing skills is her being a polyglot. She has been able to translate for the center, in 3 different languages helping to assist us with enrollment and our families’ needs. Edith is dedicated to becoming the best teacher she can possibly be. She was a semester away from graduating in another field but because she loves her job and the children she put that aside, changed her minor and now is taking classes in the field of Early Childhood. Edith shows up to work every day with a smile on her face and gives 1000%. I know every day when I walk through the door she puts a smile on my face.

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Congratulations to our Employee of the Season - Winter 2024

The Employee of the Season will receive a check for $100, a $50 coupon code for a special “Employee of the Season” uniform item of their choice, and their name on a plaque at the Home Office!

Nominations & Awards are given every year for:

·     Winter (December, January, February) – nominations collected in March

·     Spring (March, April, May) – nominations collected in June

·     Summer (June, July, August) – nominations collected in September

·     Fall (September, October, November) – nominations collected in December