Teri Windisch has been named the new executive director of the Penn Children’s Center.

A department in the University’s division of Business Services, the center serves over 160 children aged 3 months to 5 years and is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). As executive director, Ms. Windisch will manage all aspects of the center’s operations, including a staff of 40 teachers who carry out the center’s innovative curriculum and ensure that its early education and individually-based programming aligns with the Penn Children’s Center philosophy of “learning through play.”

Ms. Windisch received her bachelor of arts from the University of Delaware and attained her master of education in higher education administration and college student personnel from the University of Maryland College Park. She also earned the Pennsylvania Director’s Credential in early childhood education from Shippensburg University. 

More information on Penn Children’s Center can be found at www.upenn.edu/childcare.