Cory Crossett
Position
Lower Elementary Montessori Teacher
Teaching Montessori since:
September 2006
Education:
Washington State University1993
Bachelors in Social Studies and Secondary Education
History minor
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee
AMI Montessori Elementary diploma 2006
Loyola College in Baltimore
Masters of Education 2006
Certificates:
AMI Elementary Diploma; Montessori Institute of Milwaukee
M.Ed; Loyola College
B.A. Social Studies; Washington State University
Favorite Children's Books:
Bread and Jam for Francis
Anything by Roald Dahl
Personals:
Originally planning to be a high school history teacher in Alaska, Cory
graduated from Washington State University with a bachelors in
education in 1993. Despite a long held desire to teach, fate intervened
and tabled his teaching dreams. For several years he pursued other
career paths and raised his family. After sending his own children off
to Montessori elementary and supporting his lovely wife Johanna
through her midwifery training, Cory closed his wildly successful north
Douglas holistic preschool program he ran. With the support of the
local Montessori community, he spent the 2004-2005 academic year
in Milwaukee getting his AMI Montessori Elementary training at the
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. Later that year he completed his
Masters of Education at Loyola College in Baltimore. In the fall of
2006, Cory began teaching in the Lower Elementary for the Montessori
program.
Interests/Hobbies:
Distance running, skiing (alpine and skate), cycling, reading, writing,
hiking, camping, parenting, and any opportunity to teach anything to
anyone who's interested.
The Bridge Builder
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray,
To chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide --
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pit-fall be,
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."
When you ask Cory what he loves about teaching he might just
give you a copy of one of his favorite poems like "The Bridge Builder"
by Will Allen Dromgoole.
