Instructor Profiles
Child Care Resource Agency
Ingrid Brouwer
Ingrid loves working with children and has done this for a long time. She also loves working with adults and has been enjoying teaching for USU Eastern and UVU Child Care Resource Agency.
Continued education is a passion of hers, and she has been continuing her education. She loves learning new things that help improve her as a person, which she says is an ongoing process.
Nature helps Ingrid rejuvenate herself, so she goes for runs, walks, and hikes to help gain peace in this hectic world. Family helps her stay grounded, and she loves spending time with them.
Joan Cranney
Joan has been teaching for CAC since May 2019. She is also a headteacher for the USU Little Aggies 3 to 5-year-old preschool class and has been teaching there since January 2014. Prior to teaching preschool, she ran a home daycare for eight years. She has a dual degree in Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education and is pursuing a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction. She loves learning and participating in early childhood conferences and training. She loves working with young children and the joy they bring to the classroom.
Joan has five children and four grandchildren. In her spare time, she loves reading, camping with her family, and spending time with her grandchildren.
She grew up in Vernal and currently lives in Roosevelt.
Valerie Jones
Valerie Jones has been teaching Child Care Resource Agency classes for ten years. She loves to teach other early childhood professionals. She is strongly committed to the idea that all of us who work with children are entitled to professional respect. Valerie has a dual Bachelor’s in Early Childhood and Elementary Education and a Master’s in Human Development and Family Studies.
She started her career as a founding member of the Open Classroom Program in the Salt Lake City School District. When Valerie moved to the Oregon Coast she was hired as a Program Director at an Early Childhood Program in a Community College where she taught pre-school, as well as students working on their CDA. When she moved to Moab, she became an instructor at the Multicultural Center.
Valerie is the mother of six.
Lisa Mortensen
Lisa has a bachelor’s degree and a Master’s of Education in Special Education from the University of Utah, and has been working with children and adults with autism for more than 15 years. She teaches professional development courses for Child Care Resource Agency, and is a certified Master IEP Coach and co-founder of Confidently Prepared. Lisa homeschools some of her children and cheers when the others make it out the door on time for school. She enjoys singing, playing piano, embroidery, reading, and dragging her family around to visit historical sites together. She lives with her husband and 7 children near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kristen Remington, MOT OTR/L, CAS
Kristen has been teaching childcare classes for USU Eastern Child Care Resource Agency since 2017. She holds a Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy (MOT) from the University of Utah. She has worked as a pediatric occupational therapist for over twenty years. Her specialties include: school-based therapy, sensory processing and autism.
When not at work, she loves to be with her husband and children. Enriching children’s lives has been her life-long mission.