About Crispus Attucks and Our Team

My team’s preschool is the Crispus Attucks Children Center located in Dorchester. It is a pretty long trip to travel there, but is well worth it. Crispus Attucks is the second largest provider of infant, toddler, and preschool care in Boston. It is definitely the biggest preschool I have ever seen. There are around 200 children at the center ranging from one month to six years old. Crispus Attucks has been around for almost thirty years. There are two huge buildings. One building is used for mostly the infants and toddlers, while the other building is used for preschool-age children. The buildings contain fifteen classrooms, a playground, a kitchen, a gym, and computers in every classroom. There are around sixty-five teachers and staff members. All of the staff members are very welcoming and friendly. The teachers also know each other very well and seem to have made a very close community and support group for each other. Our team has seven corps members, plus our team leader Melissa Ferragamo. The corps members are Sarah Fenty, Keveisha Robinson-Clark, Vanessa Lugo, Caroline Listernick, Sarah Willey, Chelsea Szalanski, and of course, me, Jenn Vigue. We have all enjoyed our first few weeks at Crispus Attucks. We have started to get to know our classroom teachers, Mrs. Jones and Ms. Ella, quite well. Both teachers have worked at the preschool for a very long time. Although my team has a lot of different personalities and a lot of differences, we all seem to have fallen in love with the children in our classroom.

-Jenn