Harmony Preschool

Amica Venturi is the Founder of Harmony Preschool and its Lead Teacher. She has over 35 years experience as an early childhood educator in California, British Columbia, and for the past 15 years in Asheville.

Amica has dedicated herself to providing top quality education for children. She was a supervisor and teacher of a Head Start program for 6 years in California, using High Scope Teaching Method and The Creative Curriculum. She has learned to keenly observe children and their interests, and use those observations to choose an activity that meets the needs of the individual child. As an example of “Interest Based Learning”, a child fascinated by dragonflies is taught math, language, or art by using dragonflies as part of the teaching process.

Amica is interested in current research and exciting new developments in early childhood education, keeps up to date with professional development, and is active in several professional early childhood educators associations, such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children: www.naeyc.org

Amica loves to sing, both with the children and to larger audiences. She was formerly a member of the Universal Gospel Choir.