Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? My name is Sid Mohandas. I’m a Montessori educator, teacher trainer and the founder of The Male Montessorian (TMM). →

This interview is with Carolyn from Haas Montessori Consulting Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Growing up, I often played school with my younger siblings. →

This interview is with Barbara from Montessori Gym. A quick note on the story behind Montessori Gym: My husband and I are Montessori parents who dedicate their professional life to sports performance analysis and training. →

Katie and Leticia are the brains behind Making Montessori. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Katie: I grew up in Northern California in a musical →

Zeda-Jailynn Suswal is the founding teacher at Mission Montessori. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Hi there! My name is Zeda-Jailynn Suswal. I have a →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I’m originally from Nigeria but grew up in the US and Europe. I graduated from college with a degree →

Emma Taylor is an elementary guide at Montessori Country School. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I am an Upper Elementary teacher at Montessori Country School on →

Elizabeth Houghtaling is a toddler guide at Montessori Country School. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? In my early twenties, I had the opportunity to →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Sure. Maybe to get things started I’ll share a story from my early days. Over a decade ago I was helping out in the front →

Catalina Murcia, director of Casa de Paz Montessori in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, shares her story here. Enjoy! Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? When I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be a teacher. After excelling all through public →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Hi, I’m Natalie! I live with my husband and 3 year old daughter on an island just of the →

Elliot Dickson is an adolescent guide at Greenspring Montessori School. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I grew up in New England and have been →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Until a few years ago, I’ve lived near a street called Montessori Lane (Manila, Philippines), where a huge Montessori →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I am originally from Philippines and have a background in Psychology, and after finishing my 0-3 AMI Montessori Diploma →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Today I live on the Big Island of Hawaii with my husband, Mark. I have two adult daughters, Dana, →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I’m currently living above the Arctic Circle in the small Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Nunavut is →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? My childhood was spent in my father’s home country of Romania, and England, until moving to Missouri at age →

We first interviewed Rochelle Cutler of I Can Do It Montessori in 2015, and we wanted to see what's new in her world! If you haven't read her previous Spotlight, it's definitely worth a read. →

This interview is with Matt Hillis of Bergamo Montessori Schools. A Montessori student, his work comes full-circle in his role as Executive Director! Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Ever since I was a child I wanted to be a teacher. I majored in elementary education at Lewis →

Christina Clemer is a Montessori student, educator, and mom. She blogs over at Montessori-ish Mom, and shares her beautiful story here. Enjoy! Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your →

Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I was born in Ireland into a large, loving family that included my parents and four brothers. My early →

Debbie Adams is a Montessori parent, grandparent, and advocate. She's working to expand the reach of Montessori in Canadian public schools, and her enthusiasm for Montessori is infectious. Enjoy! Q: Can you tell us a →

Nichole Holtvluwer is passionate about Montessori, childhood, and learning. It's clear from her words, as well as her work at Radicle Beginnings, that she has found joy, passion, and true calling in her work. Here →

Pamela Green shares her story as an educator, parent, and advocate. Ananda Montessori (read on for the meaning behind "Ananda"!!) supports parents from the earliest days, through pregnancy, birth, and welcoming this small human into →

Julie Mitaro is a trained Montessori Educator and Parent, helping families bring Montessori home through her work at The Prepared Nest. A home is not like a classroom, and there are ways to incorporate a →

This time, we're Spotlighting a new Montessori parent, who blogs over at Our Montesstory, Lindsay Grosh. Her interview is eloquent, and her passion is clear throughout. We think you'll love her story as much as →

Alicia Tucker is a Montessori parent who discovered Montessori as so many of us have -- by accident. A former public school teacher in a traditional school, she found in Montessori answers to questions she →

As we begin Summer, we couldn't be more pleased to bring you this Spotlight of Angela Chang, trained Montessori guide turned "Stay-at-Home-MOMtessorian," and author of MOMtessori Life. After all, just as much learning happens outside the →

Jeanne-Marie Paynel provides gracious articles and tidbits at Voilà Montessori, in addition to personal coaching, webinars, and helpful downloads. It's so clear she is passionate about this work, and in helping parents to feel successful in →

Kathleen Clark-Perez is a trained Montessori guide and parent, who shares adventures, stories, tips, and beautiful photos about life at home with a young child at Real Life Montessori. It is beautiful to see how this →

Lisa Trout is the new Head of School at Chesterfield Montessori School. We love her passion for this work and her enthusiasm for her new role. She is a wealth of knowledge and experience, and →

The Montessori World is small, and vast, and touches all corners of our planet. Kiran Paek, Academic Director at the International Montessori Teaching Institute in Beijing, reached out to share her story, and we loved →

The tagline says it all: Joyful Parenting, Joyful Child. Lindsay Tucker writes about her adventures as a parent, learning the world anew with her child. It might not always be easy, but there is always something →

We are utterly thankful for relationships, inspiration, and camaraderie in the Montessori world, and how we all work to support one another to affect positive change in our own communities, and for children everywhere. One →

We are always on lookout for new voices in Montessori. We love hearing these stories and sharing them with the world. There are people around the globe doing amazing things, contributing to Montessori and to →

Olivia Hood is the calm, reflective voice behind Every Day Begins New. She provides lots of lovely ideas for integrating small moments of independence in the midst of busyness. This parent from Australia provides a →

We first learned about Porzia Micou and her incredible story from our friend Meghan at Milkweed Montessori (read her Spotlight here, if you haven't already!). We were so inspired and wanted to share her story. We're →

It's been 10 years. This is the 10th Fall Baan Dek has welcomed Students, the 10th time we've scrubbed and prepped and searched, the 10th time we've brainstormed and conversed and made this year, the →

Ruby Cossairt is an Upper Elementary Montessori Teacher from Ojai, California. She works with 9-12 year olds during the day, and by night she blogs at The Absorbent Teacher. She shares reflections and ideas from →

We are honored to Spotlight John Snyder, Montessorian, Guide, and Author. As a parent and guide, John has many insights into Montessori life that he graciously shares in his book, Tending the Light and here with us →

We're so glad to Spotlight Marlene Barron, a Montessorian with decades of experience across continents. In her words, her dream is, "to bring quality Montessori education to children everywhere by preparing teachers and working with →

We've been following It's a Practical Life on Instagram for some time now, and were so enamored by the small glimpses into daily life. We were overjoyed when someone put us in touch with the lovely →

At a recent inservice, our staff read and discussed a book we've been hearing about from different sources for quite some time, Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful. We were absolutely inspired, challenged, affirmed, eager. →

We're so excited to Spotlight Nicole from The Kavanaugh Report. The mother of two young children, she blogs and Instagrams moments of life with honesty, care, and joy. We were delighted to learn more about →

We're so excited to Spotlight Grae Baker, Head of School at Austin Montessori School. A Montessori educator and new parent, we were so excited to learn more about him. His words inspired us. Q: Can →

We love the diversity at Baan Dek, and find it to be representative of so many Montessori schools around the world, including the diverse backgrounds of Montessorians. Kathy Roemer is one such Montessorian. The Executive Director →

It is an honor to spotlight Junnifa Uzodike of Nduoma. We love seeing her photos on Instagram and reading about her life with her sweet family in Nigeria. We think you're going to be equally →

Jessie Beerman is the mind behind The Education of Ours, a blog full of interesting ideas and reflections from a Montessori Parent and Classroom Guide. We've enjoyed following her on her blog, and getting to →

We were spellbound when we stumbled across Midwest Montessori, a blog by Amy Dorsch, a fellow Midwesterner and Montessorian. Her blog and photos on Instagram are enchanting, and a wonderful resource for anyone interested in →

We are so excited to be featuring a Montessorian from the other side of the planet, Megan Nguyen from Montessori and Me. Megan is Montessori trained at multiple levels and is particularly interested in Montessori →

We are honored to Spotlight Dr. Joyce Pickering, President of American Montessori Society. Dr. Pickering is a pioneer, an advocate, a dedicated Montessorian with a passion for children and for Following the Child. In her →

We are overjoyed to Spotlight Sally Coulter, who has a very interesting story. Originally from Australia, her background in Montessori began in Japan, continued in Portland at the training center and in the classroom, and →

We're delighted to spotlight Meghan Sheffield from Milkweed Montessori. We were so inspired by her posts on Instagram, and just had to reach out once we read her blog. We loved learning about her, and →

It is with great pleasure that we spotlight Beth Wood from Our Montessori Life. While we've never actually had the opportunity to meet in person, we've been following her work for just about as long →

We have the extreme privilege of introducing you to Christine Harrison. Christine has been involved in Montessori since 1985, and is currently the president of the Montessori Australia Foundation. She is also a member of →

It's with great pleasure that we introduce you to Simone Davies, founder of Jacaranda Tree Montessori, a Montessori playgroup in Amsterdam. We randomly happened upon Simone, and her unique aesthetic, as we were researching Montessori →

It's extremely rare in life to meet individuals as passionate about their chosen profession, as Felicia is about Montessori. When you meet them, you know it right away. It's infectious. Their attitude and outlook on →

We're really excited to introduce you to Rochelle Cutler, the mastermind behind I Can Do It Montessori. Rochelle operates out of London and Hertfordshire, but reaches an audience just as diverse and widespread online. As →

We're really pleased to spotlight Laura Flores Shaw, a self-described, "writer, speaker, gadfly," who is also a therapist, frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, and former Head of School at Oak Knoll Kinderhaus Montessori. Laura →

You never know where you might find inspiration. We probably should have expected that Ms. Una Barry, Head of School at the Montessori School of Greater Hartford, however, would provide just that, and more. Through →

We are so very pleased to Spotlight Bart Theriot. If ever there was a great story to tell about Montessori, it would start here. We've known Bart through our involvement with the Montessori Madmen for →

In this spotlight, we're extremely pleased to feature The Montessori Lab School at Grand Center, which aims to provide an authentic Montessori education, in the heart of Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. Annette Haines, who has →

We have so many nice things to say about Dr. Haines. She's an inspiration and a guide to so many. We couldn't be more excited to introduce you to her marvelous mind and her upright, →

We couldn't be more excited to introduce you to Samantha Cedarleaf. Here's her biography: "I'm an AMI-certified primary directress. I run a little Montessori school in a big city." Yes, we know, her biography hooked →

Congratulations on the recent success of Montessori Madness! A Parent to Parent Argument for Montessori Education. You have managed to breathe fresh air into what is often perceived as the rather insular and self-enclosed world →