“This is so easy! Why aren’t you getting this? What are you stupid?”....

This has been the sentence that has been etched into my heart since I was six years old. I was a struggling reader. Smart, but very confused with all the contradictory information I was being given about sounds, spelling, and how to read words. As you can imagine I was deeply hurt and very ashamed when this was said to me.

Fast forward 25 years, I am now a very passionate certified Montessori teacher. After receiving my bachelors degree in psychology and starting graduate school for counseling, I decided to go through two years of educational training to become a certified Montessori teacher. My training was wonderful, with instructors that are not only master Montessori teachers but reading experts as well. I am blessed to have been given the gift of teaching children how to read in a way that preserves their dignity and follows their natural developmental stages so that learning to read feels easy and they come out successful.

I have been working with children for the last 10 years and I have had the opportunity to  observe Montessori classrooms all over the United States and Australia. I have had the pleasure of working in schools in Chicago, the suburbs of Minneapolis, and the suburbs of Dallas. I have now made my home in Texas with my wonderful husband, my four month old son, and our Bullmastiff.

Educational Credentials

Certified Montessori Training from Age of Montessori.                                                                                              Accredited by the Montessori Accreditation Counsel for Teacher Education (MACTE)

Bachelors of Science Degree in Psychology

Master's level study in counseling at Argosy University (a work in progress) 

Certified Coach Training from the Institute for the Psychology of Eating