Ms. Andrea Riches is a native of Mexico City and has dual citizenship with United States. She is the mother of two boys and likes to travel. She graduated from Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in the City of Queretaro, Mexico. She holds a Bachelor degree in Communications and has taken the Infant/Toddler training from the North American Montessori Center. She has been a Montessori Toddler and Spanish teacher for the past 6 years and recently completed her Early Childhood training and certification.  Ms. Andrea enjoys working with children of all ages and is very inspired by their unique potential. In her spare time she likes digital scrapbooking, video editing, movies, volleyball and acting as Spanish tutor.

Ms. Heather Andrews is a Utah native; graduating in 2003 from Northridge High School.  Ms. Heather is the middle child of six and had always enjoyed working with young children.  During her high school years she took child development classes, worked in the childcare center at Northridge and was a elemetary school tutor.  Ms. Heather has always been the go to babysitter in her neighborhood and enjoyed working the kiddie rides at Lagoon instead of the roller coasters.  Ms. Heather has been part of the New Discovery family since soon after the school opened in 2008 and has worked as an early childhood Montessori assistant for over six years.  Ms. Heather loves to see students, including her own daughter Kayla, grow and learn in the Montessori environment.  Outside of her working hours Ms. Heather enjoys playing sports, babysitting, camping, gardening and spending quality time with her daughter.