Our Team and Board

Meet Our Team

Heike M. Reeg-Smith

Lead Educator / ECE / Manager

Heike Reeg-Smith has lived in Kaslo since 1991, raising her five children, farming, and teaching privately. In 2010 Heike joined Periwinkle Children’s Centre. At the centre, Heike has created a Waldorf-based program that engages the children through their “hands, hearts, and heads”. Art and story, music, free, self directed play, and exploration of the natural environment form a strong

rhythm throughout each day. Periwinkle provides many opportunities for growth, as children interact in this safe and caring environment. Heike also teaches the Creative Arts Program, which provides a rich experience of art, handwork, music, and farm and outdoor education for home-schooled children. Her love and dedication to the healthy and holistic development of young children is her main goal in her teaching.
Heike completed her Waldorf teacher training in Europe. She also holds a certificate in Early Childhood Education.

Allison

Educator / ECE

Allison Kane is a mother of three young boys. She has been living in Kaslo for a little over 5 years. She enjoys gardening, boating in the summer and x-country skiing in the winter. Her experience with children includes teaching swim lessons, yoga, music and camp counselling. She is very much interested in Waldorf philosophies, outdoor education and child-led learning. Allison is a certified ECEA and is working towards her ECE certificate at Selkirk College.