Laura followed her children into Montessori. Looking for a preschool for her oldest, she visited a Montessori school. She was an Aerospace Engineer, and when she saw the math materials, especially the golden beads, she was hooked.
After she had her second child, she began substituting at their school in the Early Childhood classroom. Over the next few years, she became an EC assistant and then took the Elementary I-II training at MECR. At the training center Laura has been an instructor, field consultant, seminar assistant and supervising teacher. She taught upper elementary for 12 years at the Montessori School of Evergreen and then moved into Administration there as Middle School Division Head.
“I feel blessed for every experience that I have had on my Montessori journey. To be on this new path as the director of this training center that has given me so much is immensely gratifying. I look forward to fostering growth and discovery for adult learners at every stage of their Montessori journey.”
Susan started working at MECR in 1996 when her daughter was born. In those early years, visitors to the MECR office might find a baby asleep under her desk as she worked. As her family grew, so did her job at MECR as she evolved from the MECR Assistant to the MECR Financial Director. Susan often says that working with Montessorians for her entire career has been a beautiful blessing, as Montessorians tend to walk a path of kindness and perspective and purpose. While Susan has never taken training (she’s been a bit busy every summer for the last 23 years!), all 5 of her children have attended Montessori schools. She fully enjoys the connections she has made with the many students and instructors who have passed through MECR and loves to imagine the light they have passed on to the world in service to the child.
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Bhudda –
Susan took this photo of the hands of her two sons on MLK day in 2014.