Carol Hicks earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in History with a minor in Elementary Education from Marquette University. She holds both Primary and Elementary AMI Diplomas. Ms. Hicks is a past chairperson of the AMI Elementary Alumni Association, an AMI Elementary school consultant, and an AMI Auxiliary Teacher-Trainer. She has fourteen years of teaching experience at the elementary level in both public and private Montessori schools and served eight years as a program coordinator in the Milwaukee Public Schools. She is currently enrolled in the Training of Trainers Program at the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee and works as the Course Assistant.

Phyllis Pottish-Lewis holds a Bachelor's Degree in Zoology from UCLA and is licensed as a California Medical Technologist. She received her AMI Primary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of Los Angeles in 1971 and her AMI Elementary Diploma from the Washington Montessori Institute in 1977. Ms. Pottish-Lewis has over thirty years of classroom experience and two years of experience as Administrator of a Montessori school. She is an AMI Teacher-Trainer at the Elementary level, an AMI school consultant, an AMI examiner and a past chairperson of the Montessori Elementary Alumni Association. She is presently teaching a class of 9-12 year olds at the Marin Montessori School in California and is Director of Training for the Elementary Training Course at the Montessori Training Center of Minnesota.

Diane Haldane received a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from Lake Erie College and a Master's Degree in Special Education/Learning Disabilities from the University of Virginia. She earned both the Primary and Elementary AMI Diplomas from the Washington Montessori Institute, and has fifteen years of Montessori classroom experience in both private and public schools. Following her Elementary training, she worked with Margaret E. Stephenson and Fahmida Malik as Elementary Course Assistant. Ms. Haldane is also an AMI recognized lecturer, examiner, and school consultant.

Carmela Fierro has a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from the Universidad Iberocamericana in Mexico City. She received her AMI Primary Diploma from the Centro de Estudios de Education AMI-Mexico and her AMI Elementary Diploma from the Centro Internazionale di Studi Montessoriani in Bergamo, Italy. Ms. Fierro has over thirty years of teaching experience at the Elementary level and is now enrolled in the Training of Trainers Program at the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee.

J McKeever holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, as well as a Master of Arts Degree in Educational Processes and a secondary level teaching credential. She holds AMI Diplomas for both the Primary and Elementary levels and has spent almost twenty years in Montessori elementary classrooms with various combinations of the 6-12 age group. Ms. McKeever has assisted on several AMI Elementary training courses, is a past board member of the Elementary Alumni Association, and is an AMI examiner and school consultant at the Elementary level. She has also presented workshops and in-service practica on American history, ecology, classroom management, art, drama, and writing. She is currently enrolled in the Training of Trainers Program at the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee.

Director of Training for the Primary Course, Barbro Stenlund, who hails from Sweden, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and is a qualified domestic science teacher. She earned her AMI Primary Diploma at the Maria Montessori Training Organization in London, England and has twelve years of experience as a Montessori Directress. She entered the AMI Training of Trainers Program in 1988 and was awarded the status of AMI Trainer in 1993. Between the years of 1991-1998, she worked with Ms. Ulla Wikefeldt at the University of Uppsula with the Montessori Educational Course. Since that time she has worked as an AMI Examiner, visiting training centers in such countries as Japan and Finland. During the summer of 2004, Ms. Stenlund gave 2/3 of the lectures on a Preparatory Course in Dallas, TX and during the summer of 2005, ran a Foundation Course here at the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee.