Head of School – BMS

Hometown — Harlan, KY

How did you learn about Montessori? — Through readings done for Early Childhood Education major at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.

Where did you take your training? — Atlanta, Washington, DC, and Houston, TX, when Judi and Silvana trained there.

Any other degrees, schooling, or training of note? — Undergrad is Early Childhood, and M.Ed. is in Curriculum and Instruction

What do you love about Montessori? — Connecting the child to Nature, freedoms (of movement, of speech) for the child, following the child. . .

3 things you can’t live without — air, trees, water

Most favorite trip you’ve taken OR dream vacation — week in Paris with my husband

Favorite local treat — farmer’s market

One rule you live by — While we yet live, let us live!

Favorite quote — Montessori — “Some say I have invented a method of Education; I say I have simply given some little children a chance to live.”