PLAY: How to foster and enjoy it with children!

BethAnn Slater
What role does PLAY play in your life in general and specifically in your Montessori practice each day with children? What role should it play? ​
BethAnn Slater has been the Head of School at Middleburg Montessori in Virginia since taking over the school in 2003. BethAnn began teaching third grade in public school after receiving a BS from Virginia Tech in Family and Child Development. Returning to her childhood roots in Montessori, she has been a AMI Primary teacher since 1999 when she earned her AMI diploma in Cleveland Ohio in conjunction with her masters of Education from Loyola University. She is currently an AMI 3-6 Auxiliary Trainer. BethAnn’s greatest joy is her family. She has four children all of which attended Montessori and Rucker, her Montessori husband of 29 years!
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The Virginia Montessori Association is a non-profit (501(c)3) that was established in 2015 to bring Montessorians in Virginia together and to offer a community from which we all could benefit.  Administrators, educators, parents and other supporters can connect, inform and communicate in a way that is of value to all.