Our Staff

Our staff at Wickliffe Academy

We are proud to offer your family high quality teachers. You will find a teacher with a degree in Early Childhood in our Preschool program and also a very experienced staff working with our infants and toddlers. Our entire staff participates in professional development classes yearly.

Our teaching teams in the infant, toddler and preschool classes use the Creative Curriculum, a developmentally appropriate curriculum for the young mind. Each lead teacher prepares weekly projects and activities to support, encourage and educate your child.

About Us

Meet Our Administrator and Owner

Nicky Foster, PhD

Director

Is a seasoned administrator with over 22 years of experience. She holds a PhD in counseling and an MBA.

Dr. Pietra “Nicky” Foster left pharmaceutical sales in 2001 to start a childcare
center. Today, she manages the daily care and education of approximately 200
children in three centers including two centers that have the highest quality rating
the State of Ohio awards child-care centers and one that is also nationally
accredited.

Realizing that she wanted to participate in the actual formation of policy
in the Early Care and Education field, Dr. Foster got involved in the Ohio Association of Child Care Providers, first as a member and then as a Board Member. In addition, she was elected to the Ohio Department of Jobs & Family Services Child Care Advisory Council in 2007 where she served for three years, and the Ohio Early Education Social/Emotional Workgroup.

She is often called upon to give interviews about the child care industry and is a certified expert witness consultant, trainer on DISC and is a Certified trainer for the Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Learning.

Dr. Foster is also an accomplished author contributing to “How to Start a Child Care Center; A manual for starting a profitable
child care center, and principal author of “The High Place Comes Down.”