Description: Hestelle I. Nichols is the Educational Director for our Flatbush Center located at 1886 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn -- a position she assumed since the acquisition of this center by FOCH in 2008.
Ms. Nichols is a devoted educator whose career spans more than 30 years in the Anglophone Caribbean and North America. She has educated and nurtured children at all levels in Elementary schools both in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and in the British Virgin Island of Tortola. In 1996, she migrated to the United States and two years later -- in the summer of 1998 -- she joined the Friends of Crown Heights family as a Group teacher’s aide in our 671 Prospect Place facility. In October of that year, she was promoted to the position of Assistant Teacher at our former Rogers Avenue facility. And it was there, she says, “while working alongside the talented and knowledgeable Group Teacher Ms. Virginia Somera, and under the caring and professional leadership of the then-director Mr. Daryl Davis,” that she developed her insatiable passion for Early Childhood Education.
Buoyed by the collegial support and encouragement of her peers, Ms. Nichols set off for Brooklyn College in the fall of the year 2000, graduating three years later with the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Early Childhood Education with an additional concentration in Political Science. She also obtained the New York State Department of Education Provisional Certificate for Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and Grades 1 through 6. These accomplishments earned her a promotion to the position of Group Teacher in a Pre-Kindergarten Classroom.
Ms. Nichols continued her educational quest by enrolling in the graduate program at Brooklyn College, from which she later graduated with the Master of Science degree in Education. She now holds the New York State Department of Education Permanent Certificate for Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 through 6, as well as an Initial Certificate and a Professional Certificate for Birth to Grade 2. Further, Ms. Nichols has been initiated as a member of the Eta Theta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education which encourages the highest professional, intellectual and personal standards of its members and recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of education.
Ms. Nichols shares the view famously articulated by the noted developmental psychologist and educational philosopher Jean Piaget who said, “The primary goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done----- people who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.”
When not on the job constantly seeking new ways to improve her center, Ms. Nichols goes home to her husband, three sons, daughter-in-law and her granddaughter.
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-26 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 47.25(d) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: At time of inspection children's medical files were Not provided, were incomplete or were Not maintained. | |||
| 2019-09-26 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 47.37(b)(1) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: At time of inspection it was determined that child care service failed to ensure staff received required training within time frames and/or failed to maintain training records. | |||
| 2019-01-25 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 81.15(b) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: Food Protection Certificate is available for inspection | |||
| 2018-09-12 | 47.25(a)(2) | CORRECTED | |
| Brief Description: Violations requiring correction within two weeks (Critical Violations)<br/> At time of inspection child care service unable to document that all children enrolled have had age appropriate immunizations unless a child is exempt. | |||
| 2018-09-12 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 47.25(a)(1) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: At time of inspection child care service unable to document that all children enrolled have had an age appropriate medical evaluation. | |||
| 2018-09-12 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 47.33(b) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: At time of inspection it was determined that child care service allows staff to perform their duties that are Not healthy or are incapable of carrying out their duties. Staff medical clearances are Not maintained by child care service. | |||
| 2018-09-12 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 47.33(c) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: Staff failed to obtain proof of immunization; Except for exempt staff, required staff immunizations were not submitted to child care service; records not confidential. | |||
| 2018-09-12 | Minor violations (General Violations) | 47.37(b)(1) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: At time of inspection it was determined that child care service failed to ensure staff received required training within time frames and/or failed to maintain training records. | |||
| 2018-09-12 | Violations requiring correction within two weeks (Critical Violations) | 47.25(a)(2)(A) | CORRECTED |
| Brief Description: Enrolled children have not received aged appropriate immunization in accordance with Public Health Law 2164 or successor unless exempt | |||
| 2017-05-04 | 47.33 (c) | CORRECTED | |
| Brief Description: Minor violations (General Violations)<br/> Staff failed to obtain proof of immunization; Except for exempt staff, required staff immunizations were not submitted to child care service; records not confidential. | |||
| 2017-05-04 | 47.37 (a)(1) | CORRECTED | |
| Brief Description: Violations requiring correction within two weeks (Critical Violations)<br/> At time of inspection it was determined that child care service failed to ensure staff received required training within time frames and/or failed to maintain training records. | |||
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