Tori Jensen
Founder & Lead Teacher

Where the Passion Begins

I am a nurturing Early Childhood Education (ECE) teacher with a hands-on approach towards learning. I've been working with children most of my life and I believe that the best ECE learning happens through guided play and exploration.

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Nothing brings me more happiness than seeing the growth and evolution of our tots.

As an experienced preschool teacher, I value each individual child in our program and have built differentiated lesson plans to help them grow in literacy, numeracy, and life skills. Our lesson plans employ a variety of teaching methods to maximize every student's engagement and learning potential.

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I am also a former creative artist and a state-placed gymnastics athlete, so I've incorporate both these elements into my work with children:

• Creativity & Art: Both Waldorf and Reggio schools place high focus on the arts, creativity, and the imagination. At Tori's Tots, the arts are integrated into lessons and injected into the whole curriculum. 

• Health & Movement: Fine motor skills and spatial awareness development start early. It's crucial not only for gymnastics, but for ensuring fluent movement for your child's life! Drawing from my work in gymnastics, at Tori's Tots your little gymnasts will practice moving their bodies in various spatial challenges. I encourage the language of over, under and through, etc, in daily warm ups and activities. Using this prepositional language combined with movement forms body maps in their brains, as they develop spatial maps and concepts through movement. It also gets their jitters out :)