Meet the Teachers
Miss Karen
A lifetime living in York, I graduated from York high school a very long time ago and graduated from UNH with a degree in child and family studies.
I opened Smarti pants preschool in 1991, after having my first daughter, several of my friends had also had children and there was a need for quality care. After a few years I had a long waitlist so I built the larger school to help more families.
When people ask me how many children I have I say 4 but I have helped raise 100’s. I am very proud of my school and staff.
Many of the first children I had in the 90’s are now having children so I am blessed to have generations of children. It is always a great joy when they come back and have such fond memories of their time here and want their children to also have a warm and loving beginning of school.
Children give me joy, laughter, and love hence is why I continue to love my job
And I am very excited to add I will soon be a grandmother so life just keeps getting better!
Miss Jess
Ms. Jess was raised in York and is a 2001 York high school graduate. She went on to pursue early childhood education at UMF graduating in 2005. She immediately took a job at a childcare center in town where she worked for 6 years before becoming a stay at home mom. When the opportunity arose to join Karen and her SmartiPants team she jumped on it in 2014.
In Jess’ free time she enjoys running, spending time with her family at the beach, their lake house and snowmobiling in the winter and most recently taking on the roll of Mimi to her 2 grandchildren.