Primary 1 Classroom - Mrs. Amy

Amy O'Connor Rissman

Mrs. Amy O’Connor Rissman has been intimately involved with Montessori since a very young age. In addition to attending a Montessori school as a preschooler, she was surrounded by Montessori at home - her parents founded a Montessori School in Key West, Florida in the 1970’s. She later worked at the Montessori School of Key West prior to moving to Vermont.

Amy has seemingly boundless energy both in and out of the classroom and the two frequently intersect. She first joined our community as a parent and found herself at the school often because she truly enjoyed working with the children and staff in the Montessori environment. She began pursuing her own formal Montessori training and joined our staff (officially) in 2006. In addition to being a mother of six who now lives in Westford, she also raises pigs and chickens in her spare time - a boon for our students, who have been able to watch her baby chicks hatch and her baby piglets take in the first few days of their lives. We wonder if the animals have acquired the Montessori gene that seems to run in the family!