Kay earn
ed a Bachelor of Education from Wolverhampton University in England. She taught children aged between 4 and 12 years old for more than thirteen years before moving to Houston with her family in 1998.For two years she home schooled her sons, now aged eleven and sixteen, before becoming involved as a board member with Legacy Preparatory Christian Academy, a new university model school. Kay loves owning a COMPUTER EXPLORERS franchise. Having always been a teacher, she is very comfortable in the school and educator conference environment. She enjoys talking with directors and teachers in any context, and if she has an opportunity to interact with students, all the better. She has the pleasure of having extremely dedicated and talented teachers working for her and enjoys spending time with them away from work, and using her experience to facilitate them in providing the best technology education possible for their students. She is not a “techie” and so can relate to classroom teachers who have inadequate skills to teach technology to their students. She loves to see what the children are achieving and the pleasure it gives them. When she goes into a school and sees the students who were learning about the basics of engineering in 3rd grade, and now they are in 5th grade and completing the Engineering 1 course and building motorized machines to meet challenges, it gives her an enormous sense of satisfaction. “This is the evidence that what we do is of great value.”
Franchisee of the Month for June, 2010!
Kay purchased her NW Houston territory in May 2004. We are impressed with Kay’s use of her Facebook Fan page for her business. She posts articles related to education in Texas and re-purposes the corporate post for the day. You can become a fan of COMPUTER EXPLORERS Houston at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Woodlands-TX/ COMPUTER-EXPLORERS-of-Houston-Texas/399605731468.
Kay is very helpful when the corporate office needs her. She has made trips to Northwest Forest to meet with students and always welcomes training classes to observe her classes.
Dawn Romaguera: Dawn has been married to husband, Mike for 25 years and they have 5 children. Their oldest will graduate from LSU in May and their youngest is in the 4th grade. She has a B.S. in Accounting from LSU and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from UNO. Her experience ranges from teaching at a Vocational-Technical School for the State of Louisiana to the position of Associate Professor at Nunez Community College. She also received the NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award as well as being named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for two years. Dawn has been teaching with CE for 2 years. Having taught several different college computer textbooks, she considers that the curriculum written for the CE program is concise and relevant. The course offerings are varied, which keeps the classes fun for her as well as the students year after year. Whether a child is a novice or an experienced computer user, each class starts at a beginning level, but quickly moves to more challenging topics. She has really enjoyed watching the little ones who are not sure how to work the mouse evolve to the child she can’t get to leave when the class is over. She equally enjoys teaching the older students and can use her previous experience to enhance the curriculum and give them relevant tools they can use for their other studies and real-life situations.
Aru Kulkarni: Ms. Aru has an Engineering degree in Computer Science and has been in the Information Technology field for over 9 years. She has been married to her husband for 15 years and has a son in 7th grade. She started work as an IT professional and moved to teaching. The most interesting part of teaching is to watch the kids waiting tiptoed just to get on to the computer and work on the various interactive software CE has to offer. It is amazing to watch them make the best use of the latest technology to learn, analyze, share and help each other in class. As a teacher, it is most fulfilling to see kids grow through learning.
Lillian Peters is one of the newest members of the teaching team. Lillian had over 10 years experience working with children in the education field before opting to become a stay at home mom. She is a proud Aggie and graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in elementary education. She has been married for 17 years and has two daughters, ages 12 and 10. Lillian has remained active in the education field by subbing for her local school district and by teaching as a volunteer at her church. She is looking forward to working with the children as they discover all the exciting skills outlined in the Computer Explorers program. The students are a big part of what has drawn Lillian back to teaching and she is excited to be a part of their learning as they master new skills on the computer.
Amesha Daniels: Amesha has been with Computer Explorers 
since the Spring of 2008. She has experience with preschoolers by some 10+ years of teaching Sunday School, being a Preschool/Children’s Ministry Director at her former church for the last three years, as well as time teaching at a local day school in the Tomball area. She is married to her best friend of 14 years, Russell and has two sons, 13 and 10. Her hobbies include scrapbooking, watching movies, playing games with her family and vacationing with her family whenever she gets the chance. The three things she enjoys most about Computer Explorers is first that, it nourishes the curious minds of children, as well as introducing them to the world of computers in a very friendly and happy atmosphere. It is such a joy to see a child’s face light up as they master new skills on the computer. They don’t even realize they are learning as they explore the fun software they are exposed to during class. Secondly, she enjoys being around the kids. They say the funniest things and always bring a smile to her face. And last, she enjoys the flexibility offered to her as a teacher for Computer Explorers. Teaching young children and also getting to be available for her family brings her great pleasure and fulfillment.
Why we’re successful:
- Delivery by a trained teacher who also loves working with children, is enthusiastic and experienced with technology, and supports the mission of the school or group.
- Curriculum that is professionally written by educators.
- Software that is carefully selected to be educationally and age appropriate.
- Integration of technology into core curriculum areas and real-life situations.
- A comprehensive, step-by-step process of co-operative learning to develop skills. Research has shown that students who have opportunities to work in pairs and small groups learn faster and more efficiently, have greater retention, and feel more positive about the learning experience. It is a way for students to learn essential interpersonal life-skills, oral communication skills, and to develop the ability to work collaboratively—a skill now greatly in demand in the workplace. Itis a way for students to take turns with different roles such as facilitator, reporter, recorder, etc. In a cooperative group, every student has a specific task, everyone is involved in the learning or project.
- The study of each technology area is completed by the creation of a project to reinforce skills learned in th elab as well as in other core areas.
- COMPUTER EXPLORERS began over 20 years ago and is constantly developing programs to stay at the forefront of technology education.
