Our Team

Our administration goes beyond the state licensing standards to seek individuals with natural competencies with training in related backgrounds to work in our preschool. Once working in our program, teachers participate in professional development both individually, and as a team, to stay up to date on professional trends and developmental research which informs our practice in an ongoing way.

Lead Teachers have degrees and/or experience in either Early Childhood Education (ECE) or closely related fields. Assistant Teachers learn and grow under the mentorship of the Director and Lead Teachers.

Our teachers are energetic, creative, and loving. We weave Jewish values and best educational practice into all we do at YBY.

TANYA STABINSKY, OWNER/master teacher

Tanya has 30 years of experience teaching and directing in early childhood programs, including campus child care, community based programming and parent cooperatives. Before joining Yad B’Yad and returning to her passion for direct service with parents, staff and children, Tanya served as an Early Care and Education Inclusion Coach in central Phoenix. With a BS in Human Development and master’s work in counseling psychology, Tanya is also a parent of five and a graduate of two infant family mental health certificate programs, including being a Fellow of the University of Massachusetts Boston Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Program in Napa, CA. Tanya endorsed as a 0-5 Transdisciplinary Mental Health Practitioner in California. Tanya’s professional endeavors include founding a model relationship based Early Childhood program, speaking both locally and nationally on hot topics in early care and education, being a mentor teacher for the California Early Childhood Mentor Teacher Program and being a parenting writer for Wear Your Voice magazine, an online publication promoting intersectional feminism. Tanya’s passion is reflective practice work with teachers and parents and her expertise is visionary leadership of LLCs and non-profits benefitting children and families through best practice. Whether inside or outside the classroom, Tanya’s role is to mentor parents and teachers with a balanced individualized approach. Her approach is based on what works best for communities of practice while capitalizing on inherent strengths of children, parents and teachers.

JENN TAYLOR, managing director/MASTER TEACHER

Jenn Taylor has been teaching children for 40 years beginning with her first class of preschool dancers in the premier creative movement/modern dance and preschool program for children based at the University of Utah. That first job sparked her interest in teaching and set her on a career path working with young learners. Jenn holds a BA in Early Childhood Education and certification in working with special needs children, along with her specialization in movement expression for children. Jenn has a deep passion for working with young children and her teaching years include classrooms in Arizona, Missouri, Texas, Utah, and The Netherlands. Jenn is a certified coach for Love and Logic parenting and classroom discipline and brings her extensive knowledge and experience with child development to support parents in the big job of raising little ones. Jenn is married to a lovely man and together they are the parents of three children. She loves the outdoors, reading, handcrafts, playing with her dogs, Otis and Bear, and drinking coffee. Jenn is proud to lead Yad B’ Yad Children’s Center as the Managing Director and Master Teacher in support of her team members, the teachers, and the marvelous parents of this community.