Tina Rambo is the Director and Co-Owner of Sprout Academy. She has been involved with the Early childhood field for over 10 years. She began regularly teaching in the early childhood field over 7 years ago. Her journey began with Bloom Academy as an infant room teacher and continued to become a Preschool Director of this very location 5 years ago. After getting this school situated READ MORE
Ramona Moeller is a Co-Owner and Top Chef at Sprout Academy. As Top-Chef she has a huge job to accomplish each day. Ramona feeds over 60 children three times a day! She loves finding new and delicious meals to serve. If you don’t believe us.. just stop in during lunch.. your nose will help you understand!!
Ramona was born and raised READ MORE
Jerri Thompson has always loved working with children. In 2005, she started her journey in childcare after a coworker who treated her like a daughter, advised her to do so. Since then, she has not only worked professionally with preschool-aged children but also with school-age children in a few programs such as a Kindergarten Sunday School teacher, an AWANA READ MORE
Amanda Schaar is Sprout’s lead VPK teacher and our VPK administrator. Amanda was born and raised here in Charlotte County. She is a graduate of Charlotte High School, and received her Childhood Development Associate Certificate (CDA) at the Charlotte Technical center at the same time as her high school diploma. Since then she has been teaching in the READ MORE
Mrs. Neury has been teaching in the Early Childhood field for 18 years. Many of those years have been right here in this building. In the years that she has been teaching she has worked with all age groups, but her heart is with the one year old’s. She loves seeing how they begin each year as still infants and grow in a short 12 months into toddlers with their own personalities READ MORE
Mrs. Jessica is our lead Firefly teacher. She is originally from Belle Vernon ( a small town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.) In 2012, while living in PA, she graduated from California University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Jessica moved to Sarasota, FL where she was a substitute teacher until she moved to Port Charlotte. READ MORE
Stephanie Jean Onody was born and raised in Queens, New York with her older brother and younger sister. She moved from New York to Pennsylvania in 2006 for a few months but it wasn’t for her, so she relocated to Florida in 2007 to live with her aunt. She attended CHS for a few months then moved out of district and transferred to PCHS where she graduated in 2010. READ MORE
Kristina Rambo is our lead VPK teacher. She has been with Sprout for over a year and has been working in the early childcare field for over 5 years. She was born and raised right here in Punta Gorda. Even though she moved away for a couple of years finding herself in Texas and Colorado, she eventually found her way back to Florida. Once she returned “home” she began her career in Early Childcare READ MORE
Mrs. Melissa is a co-teacher in the Caterpillar class. She is super excited to be working with our littlest Sprouts! She was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida and is the oldest of 6 children. Melissa moved to SW Florida in 2006, and has worked in many different fields, however, she has always wanted to work with kids and felt that was where she belonged. When she became a nanny READ MORE
