Igniting the spark in a new generation of courageous and capable leaders through a student-centered community of diversity, academic excellence, and innovation in the Montessori tradition.

In January of 1988, I informed my mentor and boss Tim Seldin, who was the headmaster of Barrie School in Silver Spring, Maryland, that I would be leaving my teaching position at the end of that school year. I informed him of my vision to open a new school of my own the following autumn.