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Our Teachers
Isolde Stewart
Director
Isolde received the 2014 Hawkins Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boulder chapter of the CAEYC for her years of exceptional service to children, families and educators. She is a devoted community activist for equity in education. A.A. in Early Childhood Education, Front Range Community College; Director Qualified in Early Childhood Education. Teacher at New Horizons since 1984.
Wendy Chairez
Co-Director, Bilingual Teacher
Wendy is a bilingual, biliterate, native Spanish speaker, who went to New Horizons as a child. She went on to Uni Hill, Casey, Boulder High, and is now studying Early Childhood Education at Front Range with a plan to complete a four year degree in ECE. Wendy brings a deeply reflective personal experience to her teaching, and is our dream come true, our second alumna to become a teacher at New Horizons. Wendy began at New Horizons in the 2016/2017 school year.
Myriam Jimenez
Bilingual Teacher
Myriam Jimenez is a bilingual, biliterate, native Spanish speaker who grew up in Boulder. She joined the New Horizons community ten years ago as a parent and returned with her younger child in 2021. She had already begun her study of early childhood education when she joined our staff in August 2022 and continues to pursue her ECE degree.
Eva Nisttahuz-Hathaway
Co-Director, Bilingual Teacher
Eva Nisttahuz-Hathaway has been working in education since 2006. She started her teaching career at New Horizons Preschool, and then spent 7 years as a Kindergarten and ELD teacher in Denver Public Schools. Eva has a Masters degree in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education from CU-Denver, and was a 2018 fellow in the Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program. In 2020, she returned to New Horizons as a teacher/assistant director.
Kelly Cramer
Bilingual Teacher
Kelly is a bilingual, biliterate English/Spanish speaker originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her native language being English. Her mother was an early childhood home provider and Kelly worked and learned right alongside her as the oldest of all the kids in the program. After moving to Colorado in 2008, while raising her bilingual son, she taught K-8 Spanish in public and private schools until she took time off to raise her two younger children who have been attending New Horizons. She has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish studies with a minor in teaching English as a Second Language and a master’s degree in Hispanic linguistics and education. Currently, she is working on her Early Childhood education license at Front Range College. Kelly loves working with children of all ages and is dedicated to providing the best guidance and care to each and every student. She deeply believes in the New Horizons mission and vision and loves to be active in community building with our diverse Boulder families.