The people in your corner.

Christine has been an enthusiastic lead Montessori primary teacher for a decade, and spent 18 years before that teaching in urban and suburban traditional schools. She became an AMI certified primary guide in 2016 under Dr. Annette Haines and Lynne Lawrence at the Montessori Training Center of St. Louis.

She holds a Master’s Degree from Aurora University and earned a certificate for working with Diverse Learners in The Children’s House from the Maria Montessori Institute of London in 2023.

She is also the parent of two Montessori graduates and is passionate about peace, justice, and building a better world. As your Cohort Guide she runs your twice-monthly seminars, reviews your album entries, and supervises your practicum, so one person knows your full formation arc.

Hannah has spent her career inside Montessori classrooms, schools, and organizations. She has watched extraordinary educators do this work without credentials because no credentialing program would have them: paraeducators who had led the room for years, career changers and public school teachers handed Montessori environments and told to figure it out, and parents who chose the philosophy but could not afford a summer of residency tuition that assumes a financial cushion.

She built the Residency because that arrangement is unacceptable. The credential should match the calling, not the bank account. The program is rigorous because the work requires it, paid because residents are not free labor, and equity-centered because Montessori without equity is just an aesthetic.

A midpoint check-in with Hannah happens at the halfway mark of every resident’s practicum year, without exception. She serves on the boards of Indigo Montessori, Breakthrough Montessori PCS, and The Peace Rebellion, and edits for AMI USA.