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Macintosh HD:Users:CCDAA:Downloads:Carol Viola CCDAA’s Member of the Month[5].docx CCDAA’s Member of the Month October 2017 Carol Viola Child Development Program Director Grass Valley School District Congratulations to Carol Viola, Child Development Program Director for the Grass Valley School District. Carol began her passion of working with children while attending San Jose State University. Working in a store-front center and with the help of a dedicated like-minded group, she organized the Saturday Kids Club, volunteer tutoring program, Teenage Girls Club and seasonal camping for the non-profit para-church agency. Upon graduation with a Business Degree, she started working full-time with the agency, met and married her husband, Fred and became the proud mother of Joshua, Jonathon and Maria. After moving to Nevada County in 1996, she became a substitute teacher, database administrator, and an employment-training specialist. When she began working for the Grass Valley School District in 2005, she felt that she had come home to her first and favorite job-- working with children and their families. The Grass Valley School District provides before and after school and year-round programs through the After School Educational Safety (ASES) and General Childcare (CCTR) funding from California Department of Education. GVSD’s littlest learners are enrolled in the Tier 5 awarded State Preschool and Head Start Wrap-around program. What has been most rewarding about your career in early education so far? It has been my honor and pleasure to work with the preschool and school age after school teachers who provide a high-quality State Preschool and School Age program for the families in the Grass Valley School District. They are dedicated, intelligent and compassionate individuals who have done “whatever it takes” to create a safe, engaging, fun environment for children. If you could give advice to someone who is new in the administrative role, what would it be? Be patient and allow yourself a year in this new position to learn about the workflow, decisions and gain the experience required to continue the journey to a quality program. Seek out and find a mentor that you can trust and is available to meet with you and answer any questions that arise in the course of a day, a week, a month or a year. Administrators have a Bachelor or Master’s Degree in their job title, yet this is one of the stepping stones to gaining the experience needed to guide child development programs. A trusted mentor can be another
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CCDAA’s Member of the Month October 2017
Carol Viola Child Development Program Director
Grass Valley School District
Congratulations to Carol Viola, Child Development Program Director for the Grass Valley School District. Carol began her passion of working with children while attending San Jose State University. Working in a store-front center and with the help of a dedicated like-minded group, she organized the Saturday Kids Club, volunteer tutoring program, Teenage Girls Club and seasonal camping for the non-profit para-church agency. Upon graduation with a Business Degree, she started working full-time with the agency, met and married her husband, Fred and became the proud mother of Joshua, Jonathon and Maria.
After moving to Nevada County in 1996, she became a substitute teacher, database
administrator, and an employment-training specialist. When she began working for the Grass Valley School District in 2005, she felt that she had come home to her first and favorite job--working with children and their families. The Grass Valley School District provides before and after school and year-round programs through the After School Educational Safety (ASES) and General Childcare (CCTR) funding from California Department of Education. GVSD’s littlest learners are enrolled in the Tier 5 awarded State Preschool and Head Start Wrap-around program.
What has been most rewarding about your career in early education so far?
It has been my honor and pleasure to work with the preschool and school age after school teachers who provide a high-quality State Preschool and School Age program for the families in the Grass Valley School District. They are dedicated, intelligent and compassionate individuals who have done “whatever it takes” to create a safe, engaging, fun environment for children.
If you could give advice to someone who is new in the administrative role, what would it be? Be patient and allow yourself a year in this new position to learn about the workflow, decisions and gain the experience required to continue the journey to a quality program. Seek out and find a mentor that you can trust and is available to meet with you and answer any questions that arise in the course of a day, a week, a month or a year. Administrators have a Bachelor or Master’s Degree in their job title, yet this is one of the stepping stones to gaining the experience needed to guide child development programs. A trusted mentor can be another
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stepping stone and one who will understand and guide you in your quest to program excellence.
What is your proudest accomplishment in your career?
My proudest accomplishment is still in progress! I have enrolled at William Jessup University to obtain my Masters in Business Administration and will graduate on April 17, 2018. Obtaining an MBA at this point in my career models to those following that continuing education is a lifelong pursuit and brings with it many personal and professional rewards. Personal, as I have always wanted to obtain a Master’s Degree. Professional, as it supports the Grass Valley School District Child Development Program in being the highest quality and highest ranking for the QRIS Director requirements.
