Award winning kindergarten teacher Renee Genbauffe O’Leary
is a firm believer that “teaching and life should be lived to the
fullest, filled with learning and laughter and brimming with love for
the world around you.”

Renee has spent her entire 42-year teaching career as a kindergarten
teacher. She makes science a part of the kindergarten learning
experience. Through her Linking Home and School with P.A.S.S. (Portable
Affordable Simple Science) program, Renee introduces kindergartners to
basic scientific concepts, such as the body’s five senses, shapes,
colors, water, air, and different forms of matter.

In 1953-54, Renee taught in the Erie County Pennsylvania Day School.
From 1954-56, she taught in the West Hempfield Pennsylvania School
District. Renee taught in the Wilmington (DE) Public schools from 1956
to 1980. She began teaching kindergarten with the Colonial School
District in New Castle, Delaware in 1980. In August, 1994 she resigned
from her kindergarten position and began working as an Early Childhood
Science Resource Teacher at Caravel Academy in Delaware.

Renee received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950 from Millersville
State College Pennsylvania. She also studied at Temple University, the
University of Delaware, the Delaware Teacher Center, and Delaware
Department of Public Instruction.