Ms. Aline, one of our preschool/kindergarten teachers, began teaching at Hayfield in 1994, and is now our principal. She is also a co-director of our preschool/kindergarten program with Ms. Myriam.  She has a B.A. in Education from Earlham College, a Masters in Montessori Education from Loyola College, Maryland, and an Association Montessori Internationale Diploma, which she earned in 1994.

Ms. Myriam, our first grade teacher, also serves as a school administrator, and is co-director of our preschool/kindergarten program.  Ms. Myriam holds a B.A. in French and German from Earlham College and a St. Nicholas Montessori Teaching Certificate, which she earned in New York. She joined the Hayfield staff in 1992. 

Ms. Mary joined our staff in 2001 after teaching Spanish at Assumption High School at the other end of Tyler Lane until 1998.  She began by assisting in Ms. Aline’s class and is now teaches one of our preschool/kindergarten classes. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota and received her Montessori teaching certification from the North American Montessori Center in Vancouver, Canada in 2003.

Ms. Tina holds a bachelors degree in elementary education from Western Kentucky University.  Before joining Hayfield, she worked with children in many arenas: as a shift supervisor at the emergency shelter program at Home of the Innocents, as a kindergarten assistant in Bowling Green, and as a substitute teacher for Community Catholic and JVPS.  Ms. Tina began as a teaching assistant at Hayfield in 2006, and she is currently receiving training through Montessori Centre International to become a certified Montessori teacher.

Ms. Karen joined us in 2007. She earned a B.A. in Journalism and French from St. Michael's College in Colchester, VT in May of 2001.  She is currently enrolled in the Montessori Training Center of St. Louis and just completed her first of three summers toward the AMI teaching certificate. She has also just applied to the master's in education program at Loyola College in Baltimore, which will provide her with nine additional credits over one summer at the Loyola campus that will round out her Montessori training and result in a Master's degree.

Ms. Dheera joined Hayfield as an assistant teacher in 2003.  She holds a diploma in Home Science from India.  A routine attendee of Montessori teaching workshops, she is also Hayfield’s yoga instructor.

Ms. Blair started at Hayfield in 2007 and began pursuing her Montessori certification the next year. Ms . Blair earned her B.A. from Earlham College as a Major in Human Development and Social Relations with an emphasis in Education, and a Minor in Music.  Her previous experience includes assisting at a Friends school, working as an Americorps member at a middle school, and volunteering in a classroom at a charter school in Richmond, Indiana.  As well as assisting in the preschool and elementary classrooms, she is also the music enrichment teacher at Hayfield. 

Ms. Cynthia began her time at Hayfield Montessori in 1984, when she enrolled her children in the school and began working at Hayfield as an Elementary Assistant.  She holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from the University of Louisville.  In 2001, she received her St. Nicholas Montessori Teaching Certificate in London, England, and is now one of our preschool/kindergarten teachers. 

• B.F.A., Bellarmine College
• M.A.T., Spalding University
• Montessori Elementary Training, St. Louis
• Co-Founder, Hayfield Montessori, 1967

• B.A. in Humanities/Philosophy from Sorbonne, Paris
• Association Montessori Internationale Diploma, Paris
• American Montessori Diploma, Oklahoma City
• Studies in Biology and Mathematics under Dr. Mario Montessori in France and Germany
• Co-founder, Hayfield Montessori, 1967