About the management team

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Shideh has B.A. and M.A. in psychology and an Early Childhood Certificate from Vancouver Career College. She started her work in the childcare sector as a daycare teacher when she was a bachelor's student in 1994 and has been active in the industry for about 22 years. She has had different roles in daycares as educator, manager and finally, owner of family childcare. She is familiar with the job very well and always has creative ideas regarding children's education and running a daycare. She has highly accomplished creating educational and recreational activities designed to develop children's psychological, emotional, behavioural, and social skills. She is dedicated to helping children better understand the world around them and developing relationships with parents to enrich children's lives through play and learning. She loves her job and has always been appreciated by children, parents, and colleagues because of her care and expertise, especially in understanding children and parents' needs. 

She has been working with children for the past 15 years and working as a librarian and in schools. She has been working in the field of Early Childhood Education for the past seven years. She is a motivated and passionate early childhood educator. She obtained her ECE certificate from Sprott Shaw College and Infant Toddler certificate from Vancouver Community College. Her goal as an educator is to build caring relationships with children and offer guidance strategies based on each child's developmental stage. She also enjoys establishing positive interactions with parents and believes in respecting all cultures by creating harmonious environments that support diversity. She has been supporting children to actualize their full potential in the light of her experience, energy and enthusiasm, setting personalized developmental goals/ objectives in their early formative years. She has experience working in play base, Reggio and Montessori-inspired environments. 

Mehrdad has worked as a university professor and clinical counsellor for more than 25 years. He has had managerial roles as dean and vice-chancellor of the university. Besides, he has taught early childcare educator courses like Developmental Psychology, Behavioral Guidance, etc. Also, he has provided counselling services for many parents in 8 daycare settings and has assisted them regarding their parenting concerns and designed and implemented many parenting workshops. He has a responsible adult certificate and a doctoral degree in educational psychology. He provides parents of enrolled children with workshops and counselling sessions regarding their concerns with parenting and their children's behavioural and emotional concerns as a part of Cyrus Child Care's no-cost services.