Paraprofessional Teachers

Ms. Sharon Lee holds a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Korea. With more than 26 years of experience working with kids, she started as an Elementary school teacher in Korea for 5 years. Later, she moved to Georgia and served in the children’s ministry at her local church in Atlanta, where she worked as an educational director for 9 years and a Korean Language School director for 5 years.

Currently, she resides in North Georgia with her husband, two children, and their beloved cat. Ms. Sharon Lee is thrilled and eager to work with the YHALE students.

Ms. Sarah Stence is entering her second year as a Paraprofessional in the special education program, but her first year at Yhale!  She has a passion for helping all children reach their potential and love to challenge students to be curious and take chances when learning. She loves the community she has here: the best coworkers and administrators one could ask for, and by far the brightest and most enthusiastic students in our classrooms. She feels very fortunate and grateful every day she comes to work!

Mrs. Dianna Lambert grew up a military “brat,” living in three countries before graduating high school. Claiming Florida as her home state, she attended Florida State University, earning her degree in Criminology. Following college, she achieved her Florida law enforcement certification, and served five years as a police officer. After moving with her husband’s job to Cumming, Georgia in 2000, she enjoyed being a stay- home mom for a few years until her children reached school age.

Dianna then re-entered the workforce as a Victim Advocate with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s office, where she provided legal advocacy services to many families in crisis. Continuing her passion for family service, Dianna served as Chairperson of the Forsyth County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board from 2009 – 2011. As Chair of this organization, she engaged with many community agencies to study and raise awareness of domestic violence issues in the county and state. After working with the review Board, she gained certification as a Child Forensic Interviewer and served with a local non-profit to monitor court-ordered child visitations. From 2016-2022, Dianna worked as an Intake Coordinator at a family law firm. With her love for helping families, Dianna is pleased to serve as a parapro and looks forward to working alongside great teachers at YHALE to give children an enjoyable English language experience.

Outside of work, Dianna enjoys time with her husband, two sons, singing in her church choir, and cheering on the Braves baseball team.

Mrs. Weber holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Georgia College and State University and Master’s Degree from Georgia State University. This is Mrs. Weber’s second year as a member of the YHALE team.

She was born in Bulgaria but currently resides in Duluth with her husband and two daughters. Ms. Weber is passionate about traveling, languages and learning.

Ms. Chengli Zuo earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology in China. She graduated with honors.

Ms. Zuo has taught Mandarin and has found success in this vocation. She especially enjoys working with children. Her focus is turning her passion for teaching into creating and developing unique, enjoyable, and inspiring ways to engage students. The goal is not only helping young minds to achieve success in learning, but also to empower students to take these foundational concepts into everyday life. This reflects Ms. Zuo’s personal desire for lifelong learning. She has an insatiable appetite for knowledge and is continuing her studies both formally and informally.

Ms. Li is from China and has been living in the United States for 9 years. She received a Bachelor’s Degree with Education and linguistic major. She is a certified teacher in China and has 8 years teaching experience from kindergarten to high school. She has been awarded to an outstanding performance instructor winter Texas Chinese bridge proficiency competition. She was also the STARTALK cultural instructor which is a federal grant program managed and funded by the National Security Agency. Ms. Li believed that an educator of herself should always have the enthusiasm to connect to the students, promote their language input and culture through all kinds of curriculum. 

Besides teaching, she loves traveling, enjoying different kinds of food, and spending time with families. 

Mrs. Sarah Friedman has been teaching in public and private schools for many years. She has a B.A. in Early childhood Education and a M.Ed. in Reading, Language and Literacy. This is her first year as a Kindergarten Paraprofessional at Yhale. Sarah loves to make games, books and activities for the students. She is committed to facilitating students’ literacy skills.

When she is not in the classroom, you might find her hiking, cooking, traveling, or doing crafts.