Luz Casquejo Johnston
About Luz
Dr. Luz Casquejo Johnston has been in the field of education for over 20 years and has been in the Montessori movement in every capacity. She started her Montessori journey in the ’70s as a primary student. She came back to Montessori as an adult and earned her AMS Lower Elementary I Credential. She has worked in charter schools as a Lower Elementary guide and served for seven years as a Montessori charter school administrator.
Dr. Luz is currently an Associate Professor in the Kalmonovitz School of Education at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is also a consultant and has designed and delivered trainings on elementary Montessori and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to schools in the U.S. She is an international speaker with specialties in Montessori elementary education, child development, DEI, and school leadership.
Parenting on Purpose is based on the decades of experience she has worked with children and their families. She’s applied the concepts and skills in her work as a guide, a principal (with families and teachers) and now as a professor in a teacher education program.
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