Deidre Hamlett
Head of School | Administration
"The children of today will make all the discoveries of tomorrow. All the discoveries of mankind will be known to them and they will improve what has been done and make fresh discoveries. They must make all the improvements in houses, cities, communication, methods of production, etc. that are to be made. The future generation must not only know how to do what we can teach them, they must be able to go a step further." ~ Dr. Montessori
Ms. Dee holds an Elementary Education license, Computer Science and Reading endorsements, along with a master's degree in Curriculum Leadership. She has taught for 23 years and during her evenings she is a Code.org and AI facilitator sub.
Ms. Dee has played several roles within her career. She began her career at HACAP Inn-circle program where she worked with infants to school aged students. There she also worked with the schools to help with curriculum students needed. Ms. Dee then graduated from UNI and began her teaching career at Toddville-Alburnett. Where she was a reading interventionist. She then got married and moved to St. Joseph Catholic School where she taught second grade for 11 years, fifth grade for 5, and finally a Computer Science teacher, technology coordinator, and a sixth grade science teacher for 6 years. In 2023, she was a second-grade teacher again at Vinton-Shellsburg Elementary. Last year was her first year as a HoS. She is currently finishing her MACTE Leadership training.
"I am very excited about my role, and I enjoy sharing my love for learning with my CVMS families."