Marikay McCabe founded Madrid Montessori School in 2006 and was its Director until 2017. In 2018 she established Learning Ecologies to continue supporting educators as a school consultant and as seminar faciliator. In 2020 she co-founded the Bilingual

Montessori initiative in order to offer a virtual home for educators working in bi/multilingual schools and is now excited to give this work more attention with the support of the Erasmus + grant.

Carla Foster is an AMI Elementary Trainer originally from California but has been living in Norway since 1995. Carla has AMI 3-6 and 6-12 diplomas from MMI in London and the Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. She has worked with children at levels 3-6, 6-9, and 9-12, working in both private and public Montessori schools. She has been an elementary trainer since 2011.
 
Recently, Carla has been working on the creation committee for the New AMI timelines of human beings and the chart of the Family Tree of Hominins, and has a unique insight into the whys and hows of what was chosen to represent our earliest history as a species.

Birgitte Berger graduated in Political Science and Communication Studies in Munich. She has experience as an editor at Bavarian Radio. She uses the Montessori approach in language teaching in courses and in further education.

Publication work: 'Learning English according to Maria Montessori' published in collaboration with Lilo Esswein, Herder Verlag in 2016. A completely new approach to grammar teaching was developed and published by her own publishing house in 2019 in the material "English tenses - a model for English lessons according to Montessori principles" (www.englischzeitenmodell.de).

Kyla is an AMI Elementary Trainer from Toronto, Canada. She has a B.A. from the University of Waterloo and her M.Ed. from Loyola University in Maryland. In 2011, she obtained her TESOL certificate from the University of Toronto, Woodsworth College. She has AMI diplomas at both the 3-6 and 6-12 levels. She has taught in 6-9, 9-12, and 6-12 elementary Montessori environments in Canada and Morocco.

She has particular interest in bilingual education, developing language materials for the elementary classroom, and adult learning and education.

Kyla regularly mentors teachers and schools with elementary programs in Canada, Morocco, and the Czech Republic. She has lectured on AMI elementary diploma courses in Ireland, England, Canada, United States, and France. She has worked with both simultaneous and consecutive interpretation in France, the Czech Republic, and Romania. Kyla is a Co-trainer at Montessori Institute Prague, Czech Republic.
 

Mirka Vlckova first encountered Montessori when her youngest son was born. Despite having no formal training, financial resources, or external support, she was determined to bring Montessori education to her child. Starting with a volunteer mother’s group, she successfully established a Montessori kindergarten and elementary school, followed by an international Montessori teacher training center, and later, an adolescent farm program.

With over fourteen years of experience, Mirka has become a seasoned Montessori entrepreneur. She has raised over 1.8 million EUR in grants and funding and continues to run a thriving Montessori business, Montessori Institute Prague. She also serves on the board of the Montessori school she founded. Her passion is to help others realize their Montessori visions, whether through starting schools, securing funding, or launching new programs.

Nina Johansen is the Executive Director of Montessori Norway, the national membership- and interest organization for Montessori programs in Norway, since 2015. Her previous work experience in Montessori schools includes working both as a teacher and in management. Nina holds an AMI 6-12 diploma from the University of South Eastern Norway, as well as a formal teacher degree from the Oslo Metropolitan University.