Marikay McCabe and Mirka Vlčková are two of the co-founders of The Bilingual Montessori Project.
Marikay McCabe founded Madrid Montessori School in 2006 and was its Director until 2017. In 2018 she established Learning Ecologies to continue supporting Montessori educators as a school consultant and by offering seminars on bilingualism and school organization & leadership. In 2020 she co-founded the Bilingual Montessori initiative in order to offer a virtual home for educators working in bilingual and multilingual schools. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University and completed school management and leadership training from NAMTA and the Whole School Leadership Institute. She has also taken AMI training at the Elementary and Adolescent levels.
Mirka Vlčková is a mother of four children for whom she founded a Montessori Primary and Elementary School in the Czech Republic. She also founded and runs Montessori Institute Prague, an AMI teacher training center in the heart of Europe. Mirka is passionate about helping enthusiastic and inspired people bring Montessori to children in their communities. Recently she started her own podcast called Montessori Institute Prague Podcast.
In our conversation, Marikay and Mirka share a wealth of experiences including raising bilingual children, founding bilingual Montessori schools in Europe, and running an AMI Montessori teacher training center. They also share the goals of the Bilingual Montessori Project and ways that educators, parents, and school administrators can get involved with the project.
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