Meet Our Staff

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Miss Aggeliki has been with SNA for 5 years.  She is a teacher in our Preschool 2 year old class and she is our Greek teacher as well.  The kids love when she comes in to do her lessons and they are very eager to learn and please her!  She is also a favorite among the teachers because she knows where everything is.  If we can’t find something, we just ask her. What a memory she has!  Miss Aggeliki became Mrs. Aggeliki last  summer at her beautiful wedding in Chios, Greece!

Miss Mayda has been working at the Academy for 6 years!  When she isn’t here helping out the 2 year old friends, she is busy with her two boys or cheering for the Dallas Cowboys!  Miss Mayda loves when her students sing songs to her.  She also tries to get all her students to like purple as their favorite color, too! Her former students now in the 3 and 4 year old programs still color her purple pictures to take home! In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with her family and friends and cheering on her son at football!

 Miss Melissa is the lead teacher for the 3 year old class. She has been at the academy since 2016. She received her associates degree BCCC in 2002 and her Bachelor of Science in Elementary/Special Ed from Temple University in 2006. She has been married to her husband Nate (who makes guest appearances at SNA as Officer White) and has 2 children. Luke and Liana are both SNA Alumni now attending Miller Heights Elementary school. Miss Melissa enjoys watching her students learn and grow throughout the year.  

 Presvytera Stephanie has been teaching religion at the Academy since 2018, and this year is also the assistant teacher in the Preschool 2’s. She loves seeing her students smiling faces every morning, and enjoys watching how much they are learning, changing, and developing in their first year of preschool. SHe loves working with such little ones since her boys are getting so big. The oldest 2 are graduates of the Academy and the youngest will graduate this year. SHe is grateful to be teaching religion as well because she loves finding creative ways to help the students understand and engage in their faith and the life of the church.  It also gives her the opportunity to get to know the children in all of the other classes as well. In her free time, Presvytera Stephanie loves o play sports in the yard or at the park with her boys or go for a long run.  

 Mrs. Gentis has been a part of the St. Nicholas Academy for over 12 years.  All 3 of her children have graduated from the Academy and still talk about how much they loved it there. Mrs. Gentis graduated from Moravian College with a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics and a Certificate in Elementary Education.  She taught the two year old class for 10 years, was the head teacher for the school age program, and now she is teaching the 4 year old class and loves it! Mrs. Gentis is also part of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox community and can be found helping at the festivals or watching her own kids Greek dance.  She loves teaching Greek to her class and enjoys bringing in aspects of Greek culture into her lessons.  She looks forward to seeing the next group of little ones whose minds she will brighten. 

 Ms. Jenna Katsaros has been with the academy since 2019.  She spent 2 1/2 years as an assistant to the Pre-K 4s class and now she is a teacher for the Pre-K 5’s class.  Her son, Yianni, is an SNA graduate.  He started when he was two and recently graduated from kindergarten this past summer.  Miss Jenna and her family are life-long members of the church and community.  Miss Jenna loves watching her students grow throughout the year.  She loves teaching preschool and all of the exploring, learning and fun she gets to have with her students.  Nothing makes Miss Jenna more excited then when a parent tells her their child talks about something new they learned in school.