Ms. Kalie Paranzino began teaching at SIJ in 2023; she teaches third grade.

Ms. Paranzino received a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Applied Psychology & Human Development from Boston College and her Masters of Education from the University of Notre Dame. New to the Archdiocese of Detroit, Ms. Paranzino arrives with two years of teaching experience at the St. John Vianney School in Rancho Cordova, California and two years at the School of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore, Maryland. 

When not teaching first grade Ms. Paranzino loves learning to cook new recipes, writing letters, reading and watercolor painting.

As her students discover how deeply Jesus loves them, she hopes that they are compelled to love God and their neighbors with a love purified, refined and continuously kindled by relationship with the Lord. 

“To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God.” 

-Cristiana Paccini and Simone Troisi, authors of “Chiara Corbella Petrillo: A Witness to Joy”