Jackie Grundberg
About Jackie
Jackie Grundberg is an AMS credentialed EL 1 and 2 guide with 11 years of Montessori classroom experience and 22 years in the education field. She earned her Bachelor’s in environmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Masters of Education in Instructional Technology. Her teaching credentials from Washington and Maryland are at the secondary biology and middle level.
She is an Instructional Guide, Field Consultant, and Practicum Advisor for the Center for Guided Montessori Studies (CGMS). At CGMS, she helps guide adult learners who are earning their MACTE Montessori teaching credentials. She is the founder of the Houston-based Montessori Consulting Services, where she conducts parent education workshops and private consulting.
Prior to her teaching career, she worked as a wildlife biologist in Colorado, New York, Cameroon, and Kenya. She is the creator of Backpack Sciences©, a monthly Montessori science curriculum membership to help elementary educators implement ready-to-go, hands-on, inquiry-based science lessons. Backpack Sciences© combine her experience as a wildlife biologist, Montessori classroom teacher, and teacher educator all in one place.