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Director-of-Operations-Mrs.-Josiellia-A.-Griffin

Mrs. Josiellia A.Griffin

Owner

Josiellia A. Griffin is a wife and mother of 3 currently residing in Greenville, SC. She received her education from Wilson High School in Florence, SC, and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications from Morris College in Sumter, SC. While attending high school, Mrs. Griffin developed a desire to facilitate meaningful educational exposure to small children in preparation for public and private school matriculation. After earning her bachelor’s degree, Mrs. Griffin still felt the need and want to teach young children. That’s when she began work, in 2009, as a preschool teacher at the former Progressive Learning Academy in Florence, SC for 4 years where she served as the preschool 4s teacher. After the closing of the facility, Mrs. Griffin received a preschool position at The Richardson Center for the Children at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC where she served as a full-time preschool 4’s paraprofessional.
 
After marriage, Mrs. Griffin joined her husband in Greenville, SC where she became a substitute teacher for the Greenville County elementary schools and then moved forward to becoming a full-time paraprofessional at Greenview Child Development Center also under the Greenville County School District in 2016. She immediately felt fulfilled in her role in the students’ lives but continued to have the desire to reach more children in the Greenville county area. In 2018, Mrs. Griffin stepped out of the school district and began working on Rising Star Early Learning Academy LLC. Through her work with preschool children for more than ten years, Mrs. Griffin has found the work to be exhilarating and rewarding.

Our Mission

The Mission of Rising Star Early Learning Academy, LLC is to provide a top-level quality child care center with the purpose of providing a developmentally appropriate weekday program that addresses the physical, emotional, and social needs of children and families.

COVID-19 Response

Rising Star Early Learning Academy is prepared to keep all students and families safe. Our protocol is to follow all CDC guidelines but can change sporadically based on the number of daily cases. Please direct any questions to 864-399-9189.

Our Beliefs

We believe in a child receiving the best education needed for the future. We are a preschool specializing in behavior management. Allow us to create a vision for your child’s future while implementing age-appropriate lessons fit for each child.

Children need consistent caregivers and teacher.

Children benefit much more in an environment where meaningful and lasting relationships can be developed between the children, parents and their caregivers/teachers. RSELA follows a typical school year schedule, where children stay in each classroom for a full year, and “move up” to their new classroom every August. Continuity of care also allows children and their teachers to really get to know and become comfortable with the “culture” of their classroom. They don’t have to spend time every few months trying to get to know a new set of rules, friends and ways of doing things.

The relationship between our family and yours is of utmost importance.

We are honored to have the opportunity to play in a role in children’s lives. So, when parents and children enter our center, we want them to feel like family. We share parents’ goal of providing the very best for their children, and we want to work in partnership to ensure that each child has positive, successful experiences at our school. We are committed to fostering relationships between our staff and your family that allow for frequent and open communication in an atmosphere of mutual respect.