About us

We are Daniella Porter and Erin O'keefe, co-directors of Imagine Learning Center in Gainesville, Fl.

Daniella Porter has many years of varied experience caring for and educating young children. She grew up here in Gainesville and has strong roots in the community. She received her Bachelor’s of Arts in Special Education, her Master’s of Education in Early Childhood Education and her Education Specialist in Early Childhood Curriculum from UF.  For the past 8 years she has been researching different curriculum approaches and she opened Imagine Learning Center in 2005, which embodies those approaches.

Erin O'Keefe is the lead preschool teacher and co-director of Imagine Learning Center. She has been an integral part of the school's staff since the center's inception in 2005. She has been educating young children and being influenced by different curricular approaches for the past decade. Her teaching philosophy is strongly influenced specifically by Waldorf, Reggio Emilia and Montessori appoaches, among others.  She holds a bachelors degree in women Studies from S.U.N.Y New Paltz and she recently received her directors credential.