Christi Crittenden | Executive Director
University of Alabama - B.A. in Psychology |
Christi has a diversity of experience in early childhood education including board leadership, serving as an Executive director for multiple programs and as teacher. She is passionate about children, her family and her faith. She brings a strength of business management coupled with a deep desire to encourage families as they navigate the early years of childhood. She has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Alabama (Huntsville) with a minor in math. As well as being a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Christi has volunteered for many other organizations including serving as the Chair for numerous committees.
She and her husband Tom have been married for over 30 years. They have four children and two rambunctious pups! |
Both [our] boys have been known to go to Christi if they were having a difficult day and she was volunteering at school and both have bypassed me and beelined straight to her to share a story or ask to join them on an adventure in the playground. Zach and I are very thankful to have her and her family as part of our village.
- Zanny & Zach
Rachel Glass | Pre-K/Kindergarten Teacher
Mary Baldwin University - Bachelors of Arts in Sociology with a Minor in Criminal Justice |
Rachel has worked the last five years in both private and public school settings. For four years she worked with children with Intellectual Disabilities for Augusta County School. Last school year Rachel worked at Stuart Hall Lower School with the Pre-K class. She is currently working on her MAT in Elementary Education at MBU.
Rachel is married and has a daughter. Rachel and her family live in Augusta County on a farm with two dogs. In her spare time she enjoys reading, listening to music, and being outside with her daughter. |
Carolyn Holland | Kindergarten Teacher
James Madison University - Degree in Early Childhood Education |
What an exciting teaching career I am having and it keeps getting better! I started teaching first grade at Keister Elementary School. This was so rewarding because I student taught at Keister and loved the school community! After 7 years at Keister our family moved to Augusta Co. Virginia where I was blessed to teach second grade at Cassell Elementary. The following year, there was an opening at Riverheads Elementary where my 3 children attended. I was thrilled to be at such an excellent school, and to teach so close to home. While at Riverheads, I taught kindergarten, third grade, and fourth grade. When we moved to Staunton in 2015, I transferred to Verona Elementary where I taught second grade. After 30 years of teaching I decided to retire.
After retiring it wasn’t long before I was really missing the students and being in the classroom! This is when I joined the Stuart Hall Community substituting and helping out with Dragon’s Den. I was later hired to teach kindergarten at Stuart Hall and loved every second of this amazing school! I am so excited to continue my teaching career in our new facility at Anna’s House! |
Dedicated teacher who gives great feedback and expects her students to work hard but the positive love she gives back is twice as great! Any student is lucky to have her ️ and will be better leaving her class
- April Pannell
Sarah Sale | First Grade Teacher
Marymount University - Master of Education |
Sarah has been an elementary school educator for 27 years. She has taught in both public and private schools in Virginia, Japan, and Hong Kong. Mrs. Sale is licensed in Elementary Education and English as a Second Language. Her undergraduate degree is from Sweet Briar College and she has a Master of Education from Marymount University.
Outside of the classroom, Mrs. Sale loves to read, workout, go out to eat, and travel. She and her husband live in Staunton with their Boston Terrier, Daphne. |
Your cheerful presence creates a warm and caring atmosphere in the room making it a truly wonderful learning environment for your students. Keep up the great teaching!
LaVerne Traynham | Second and Third Grade Teacher
Longwood University - Degree in Early Childhood Education |
LaVerne earned her teaching degree in Early Childhood Education at Longwood University and has done post graduate work and training at JMU and UVA. She served 20+ years in public education and has more recently worked in private education. She has extensive outside experience with children through scouting, church, day care programs, after school programs, and in-home child care. Teaching is not her profession, it is her calling. She comes to ANNA’S HOUSE with excitement and enthusiasm and a true love for children and learning. She is a self-professed life-long learner and has great passion to develop the same in others.
She is the mother of three grown children, a son and two daughters, and is a grandmother to three grandsons and a granddaughter, who all fill her life with love and laughter. Besides children, she loves to garden, camp, fish, read, craft, and have fun. She currently resides in Staunton, Virginia with her two aging Yorkies, Max and Sophie. She strives each day to live a life that is pleasing to the Lord and to treat others in the same way she would hope others would treat her children in the same situation. She is fair, firm, and friendly and knows and loves her family as well as her students. She is a member of Bridge Christian Church and serves there as a chaplain. |
Having Mrs. Traynham as a teacher has been an incredible experience. My child has developed a love of reading he has never had before. She has a way of creating a learning environment that is challenging and engaging but most of all fun.
