• District Award from Parent Cooperative Preschools International, 2007
• Lifetime Achievement Award from the Huron Valley Council of Cooperative Nurseries, 2007
• Outstanding Teacher Award from the Huron Valley Council of Cooperative Nurseries, 2001

Mariann is a certified elementary school teacher with a specialization in early childhood education. She received her B.S. in Human Development and Family Ecology/Child Development at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education was earned at Tufts University.

Previous experience includes teaching at Stone School Cooperative Nursery in Ann Arbor, MI, where she taught 3 year olds in the morning as well as a mixed age group of 3 and 4 year olds in the afternoon. Mariann was both director and teacher at Playtime Nursery School, a cooperative preschool in Urbana, IL. She has additionally served as a director, head teacher, and elementary teacher in San Diego, Boston, and Chicago.

Mariann has two sons, Joshua and Matthew. They both attended preschool at Triangle and currently attend school in the Ann Arbor School District. Mariann’s husband, Daniel Goldman, is a professor/scientist at the University of Michigan.

Mariann believes in providing the children with a caring, stimulating environment that facilitates growth in all areas of development (physical, social-emotional, and intellectual). Her favorite years in a child’s development are ages 2.5-5 when the teacher, parents, and children can share together their love of discovery, learning, and enjoying each other.

Please feel free to contact Mariann if you have any questions, concerns, or topics that you would like to discuss.