Volunteer Stewards
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Shawna Maryanovich | email
Shawna is a parent of three children who all attended Montessori schools through their high school years. She has over 20 years of Montessori school board/governance/policy/program expansion/financial resiliency service within private, public, and charter Montessori schools nationwide. By day, Shawna scaffolds the self-construction of adults as a leader of strategy, process, risk management, and technology teams. Shawna strives to connect with Montessorians and Minnesotans to maximize the opportunities for MNMN to thrive and achieve its mission. Co-founded MNMN, spearheaded Montessori’s presence in legislative advocacy networks, and currently leads MNMNs operation as a 501c3. Shawna’s favorite Montessori material is the Stamp Game. |
... Does Nature make a difference between work and play or occupation and rest? Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work. What about our hearts, our lungs, our bloodstream which work continuously from birth till death? Have they asked for some rest? Not even during sleep are they inactive. What about our mind which works without intermission while we are awake or asleep?
- Dr. Maria Montessori
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Anne Nickel Hage | email
Anne is a Montessori Alumna through Middle School, parent of two Montessori children (EII and Jr. High) and Montessori school board member. She serves the broader independent school community as Executive Director of the MN Association of Independent Schools (MAIS). Anne offers MNMN her keen attention to organizational sustainability and the immense potential of the Montessori alumni community. She is the founder and sustainer of MNMN’s Montessori Education Week celebration and annual gubernatorial recognition, manages the data and development efforts, and serves as treasurer of the Board. Anne’s favorite Montessori material is the Timeline of Life. |
Be obedient to events.
- Dr. Maria Montessori
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Tymber Anderson | email
Tymber is Montessori primary-trained with a decade of classroom experience in both the US and Europe. She currently serves children as a Research Coordinator working on a nationwide longitudinal study investigating brain development at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. In addition to her passion for neuroscience behind Montessori’s efficacy, Tymber strives for MNMN to reach its full potential to connect practitioners to one another and to meaningful work. Tymber is the founder of the MNMN's State Fair exhibit and current secretary of the Board leading the email and Facebook presence for MNMN and maximizing the potential of community connection with valuable employment, event, substitute, and grant resources. Tymber’s favorite Montessori material the Spoken Language Cards. |
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with them our conviction that mankind can hope for a solution to its problems, among which the most urgent are those of peace and unity, only by turning its attention and energies to the discovery of the child and to the development of the great potentialities of the human personality in the course of its formation.
- Dr. Maria Montessori
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Sarah Hassebroek | email
Sarah is Montessori Elementary trained with a decade of dedication in the classroom with children. She now shares her time between the children of Minneapolis Public Schools and the adults of St. Kates as an Assistant Professor. Sarah is excited to create an inclusive and engaging connection throughout the Montessori practitioner community to support classroom professionals’ self-efficacy by building their resiliency and knowledge through professional development and increasing retention in the field. She looks forward to practitioners associating professionally to scaffold each other’s self-construction, as effectively as they do childrens’. Sarah’s favorite Montessori material is the Peg Board. |
Within the child holds the fate of the future.
- Dr. Maria Montessori
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Nicole Kavanaugh | email
Nicole is a parent of a three Montessori children (toddler, primary, and elementary), author of The Kavanaugh Report where she shares her family’s Montessori journey, an online Montessori parenting coach, and co-Admin of Montessori 101 - a Facebook group offering community for parents and professionals utilizing Montessori’s principles. Nicole appreciates ensuring the needs of the Montessori parent (current and prospective) are attended to in the MNMN strategy. She is the creator and administrator of MNMN’s website, editor and publisher of MNMN Newsletter and MNMN’s social media strategist. Nicole’s favorite Montessori material is the Topponcino. |
Adults admire their environment; they remember it and think about it; but the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.
- Dr. Maria Montessori
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Erin Doan | email
Erin began her career as a traditionally trained science teacher who later found Montessori learning while completing her master’s degree studies in child development and psychology. She is currently the Head of School at Oak Hill Montessori school, in Shoreview, MN and a parent to two college and high school-aged children who attended Montessori school through 8th grade. Erin looks forward to combining her school leadership experience with over 20 years of experience in classroom instruction, teacher training, and education policy to expand awareness of and access to Montessori education in the state of Minnesota. Erin ’s favorite Montessori material is the Land and Water Forms. |
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
- Dr. Maria Montessori
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