Team Category: AMI/USA Consultation Committee

Laurie Ewert-Krocker (she/her) is the Director of Training for the International Montessori Training Institute of Ohio in the US and the 12-18 trainer for the AMI 12-18 Diploma Course through the Sydney Montessori Training Centre in Australia.

Laurie was founding head teacher of the Hershey Montessori Adolescent Community in Huntsburg, Ohio. She

Virginia Viscovic holds diplomas at both the AMI Primary and Elementary levels, is Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Levels I and II trained and is a Montessori coach. She is a consultant at the Elementary level and serves as a member of the Consultation Committee for AMI/USA. Virginia has a B.A.

Allyn S. Travis has a bachelor’s degree in English from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in education from Loyola College of Baltimore. She also holds both Primary and Elementary Diplomas from the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and has fifty years of experience in Montessori teaching both children and adults.

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Jennifer Shields has been an Association Montessori Internationale  primary teacher-trainer since 2010. Jennifer is also a lecturer, examiner, and consultant. She taught primary children for over ten years and now serves as a Director of Primary Training at the Washington Montessori Institute.

Jennifer earned her 3-6 Primary AMI diploma in 1992. Twenty

Molly O’Shaughnessy is an accomplished AMI trainer, consultant, and lecturer. She has led the Montessori Training Center of Minnesota (MCM) for 25 years of expansion, growing a teacher training center into a movement to bring high-quality Montessori education to hundreds of underserved children.

A noted authority in the field of Montessori training,

Janet McDonell became Director of Primary Training at the Washington Montessori Institute in 1996. In addition to her Primary diploma, she also holds AMI diplomas at the Elementary level and for Montessori Special Education. She has over 20 years teaching and administrative work in Montessori schools throughout the U.S. with children

Alejandra Rosas is the Director of Training for the 0-3 level at the Montessori Stoppani Institute in Tijuana, México and Los Angeles, CA. Alejandra has been part of the Montessori Community for over 25 years. She holds AMI 0-3 and 3-6 diplomas and has worked at both levels, serving countless young children

Karey M. Lontz, M.A., Association Montessori International (AMI) Trainer for Assistants to Infancy, holds AMI diplomas for the 0-3 and 3-6 levels. Karey has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia, a master’s in education from Loyola College and AMI Teacher Trainer credentials. She has been working in the Montessori