meet our leadership team
Candace Babcock
After moving to Bozeman, Montana in 2011 Candace worked as a program administrator for a local nonprofit, then took a job at Zoot Enterprises as a developer and later a Quality Assurance Analyst and Business Analyst. After the arrival of her two children, Audra and Wade, Candace decided to put her career on hold - only to capitalize on her “extra” time to write and create a preschool curriculum for her children, which she also sells online.
Karen Walton
Carolyn Sweet
Passionate about supporting Montessori educators in their journey, Carolyn has been an active contributor to Montessori schools since 2013. Her roles have included serving as a marketing and admissions coordinator, a board member, and a volunteer.
At home she has the honor of raising two fiercely independent children who began their Montessori journey as infants. Her husband holds a Montessori Secondary Credential and has led and founded Montessori adolescent programs in Ohio and South Carolina. Carolyn has been promoting Montessori education as part of the AIM team since 2022
meet our admissions team
Randall Klein
Kirsten Guisto
meet our infant toddler faculty
Nancy McNabb
Courtney Reed
meet our early childhood faculty
Kara Renick
In her time in Colorado Kara had the wonderful opportunity to help open a new Montessori school with the goals and passions to have a truly authentic and positive cultured school .Kara has visited Mexico and Honduras to visit schools in several different rural cities within both countries. In those schools she worked with teachers to empower them to teach the children with all their passion as well as provided them with new materials for their classrooms.
Kara has had a passion for children since high school. She discovered the Montessori philosophy and began her journey leaning and developing herself as a teacher and guide to the children and later on other teachers as well. She hopes to inspire and empower more teachers as she works at Authentic Institute of Montessori.
Outside of school, you can find Kara looking for adventure outside, climbing cliff sides, and enjoying time with her husband, two kids, and family dog, Whiskey River.
Liz Goodman
In her free time, Liz loves to read, hike, practice yoga, travel, cook, and spend time with family and friends. She is also a huge Boston Celtics fan!
Daniel Ocampo
Camilla Nichols
With a passion for teaching and traveling, Camilla has since taught in Asia, Europe, and North America. Camilla was responsible for spearheading the development of the MCTD teacher education program at The Montessori Children’s Academy in Chatham, New Jersey in 2014 where she is also an instructor and advisor in addition to her role as The Senior Director of Montessori Development.
Camilla also holds an AMS Early Childhood Montessori Certification and consults to a Montessori School in Malmö, Sweden on an ongoing basis.
Camilla has raised two children who both went through Montessori Education and who are now successful college students in nursing and mountaineering degrees. Camilla was the former Essex County Director of Girls on the Run, a non-profit organization that empowers young girls mentally and physically.
Heidi Tussing
She completed her EC Montessori certification in Kalispell, MT in 2009 and worked in several Montessori preschools in Helena. She was the teacher for the first ever public Montessori preschool in Montana which was funded by the MT Legislature. She went on to obtain her Elementary I certification from Authentic Institute of Montessori and taught a lower Elementary class at a private Montessori school in Helena. Heidi currently is a substitute teacher for the public elementary Montessori teachers.
Heidi, her three children (2 of them adults) and husband love to spend time in Montana’s beautiful outdoors skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and sometimes relaxing in a hammock.
meet our elementary faculty
Suzanne Tipton
Fana Takahashi
She also holds a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and a B.S. in Education K-8 from Montana State University. Fana has always had a passion for teaching and has been in a Montessori classroom since 2015. Currently, she co-teaches in a Lower Elementary Classroom in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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