Meet Our Nurturing Early Childhood Teachers
Mrs. Beth Clark
Mrs. Clark teaches Kindergarten and has been teaching at Chesapeake for 16 years. Beth was born in Kilmarnock, and attended college at Mary Washington, as well as Georgia State University. She is also the Early Childhood Division Head. Beth will tell you that she loves teaching because it keeps her close to that special sense of wonder small people have. In Beth’s spare time, she enjoys reading, horseback riding and spending time with her children.
Ms. Julie Zimmerman
Ms. Zimmerman is the Academy's Preschool teacher. She spends her mornings in the classroom and her afternoons working on publications for the Academy's Development Office. Julie is originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Richmond with a BA in journalism in 1983. She believes the greatest skills a preschool teacher can have are kindness, spontaneity, compassion, a quick wit, and fair knowledge of the sequence of how a child learns. In her spare time Julie enjoys exercising in nature, exploring the Northern Neck and traveling with her sons.
