 MEET THE STAFF
Silvia C. Dubovoy, Ph.D.
General Director
Director of Primary training
Director of Assistants to Infancy training
Dr. Dubovoy is an Assistants to Infancy (0-3) and Primary (3-6) level trainer, lecturer, consultant, and examiner for the Association Montessori Internationale worldwide. She has been involved in Montessori education since 1965, as a parent, board member, and coordinator of her children's school. Dr. Dubovoy holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, a Master's in Psychological research and Intervention, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Barcelona. She also has the AMI Primary, AMI Special Education, and AMI Assistants to Infancy Diplomas. Dr. Dubovoy was a Board member of AMI, headquartered in Amsterdam, from 1982-2010. She is one of the AMI representatives to the United Nations. As a psychologist she studied and worked with Dr. Carl R. Rogers a humanistic psychologist.
Cristina A. De Leon M.
Auxiliary Trainer
Ms. De Leon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior in Tijuana, Mexico and a Master's in Pedagogy from State University of Pedagogy Studies and a M.Ed. from Loyola University Maryland. She received her AMI Montessori Primary Diploma and her AMI Elementary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego and worked from 1998 to 2003 as a Primary teacher at Scripps Montessori School, in San Diego CA. She has been Dr. Dubovoy's course assistant since 2003 and currently serves as an AMI Auxiliary Trainer.
Chelsea Swenson
Course Administrator
Chelsea has recently joined the MISD staff and will be serving as the training center administrator. Chelsea spent the early years of her professional life working as a graphic designer in New York City. After moving to San Diego, she began exploring the idea of becoming a Montessori guide and received her AMI Primary Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from James Madison University in Virginia and a Master of Education in Montessori education from Loyola University in Maryland.
Nasreen Yazdani
Course Administrator
Nasreen serves as the Montessori M.Ed. Program Coordinator at the University of San Diego. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she studied world religions and applied mathematics. She also holds the AMI primary diploma from MISD and a Master in Education in Montessori education from Loyola University. Nasreen's professional background is varied and includes experience in customer service, athletic training, grant writing for the military, tutoring the gamut of ages and subjects from kindergarten reading to college calculus, administrative work in a hospital, sociological research for a nonprofit, and landlord/tenant compliance for a government housing program.
Alejandra Rosas
Assistants to Infancy Course Assistant
Ms. Rosas holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education from the Secretaria de Educacion Publica in Mexico. She received her AMI Montessori Diploma from the Centro Internazionale Montessori I Perugia in 1996 and her AMI Assistant to Infancy Diploma from the Montessori Institute of San Diego in 2004. She has thirteen years of Montessori classroom experience, has worked in the Infant Community of Santa Fe Montessori School and is currently in the AMI Training of Trainers program for the Assistant to Infancy level.
Guest Trainers
Guadalupe Borbolla
Guadalupe Borbolla is the director of Colegio Montessori de Tepoztlan, in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, which has a full Montessori program at the early childhood, elementary, and adolescent levels, through high school. She is Montessori-trained at the Assistants to Infancy, Primary, Elementary levels and completed the Training of Trainers program at the Montessori Institute of San Diego in 2011.
Gilda Bonnet is Course Assistant at the Montessori Training Centre of British Colombia. She also directs the Montessori Children's Community, the model class for the training center.
Eduardo Cuevas is Director of Training at the Montessori Training Centre of British Colombia.
Dr. Annette M. Haines is the Director of Training for the Montessori Training Center of St. Louis.
Guest Lecturers
Dr. John Erhart, a child psychiatrist, is Executive Director of Montessori Intervention Programs. He guest lectures at MISD on various topics regarding special education with Ms. Monica Sullivan-Smith, an AMI Montessori Teacher.
Monica Sullivan-Smith is co-founder of Montessori Intervention Programs. As an AMI teacher, she lectures at MISD with Dr. John Erhart on various topics regarding special education.
Steven J. Hughes, PhD, LP, ABPdN is an assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and maintains a private practice where he specializes in assessment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and other learning and behavioral problems in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dr. Hughes completed his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota and his post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he joined the faculty of the Division of Pediatric Clinical Neurosciences in 2001.
In his clinical work, he has specialized in neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents with a wide range of learning, developmental, and medical disorders, and assisted in the supervision and training of future neuropsychologists. Himself a Montessori parent, Dr. Hughes has helped many families from the Twin Cities Montessori community understand their child’s special educational or developmental needs. He is a frequent guest lecturer at the Montessori Training Center of Minnesota and a Montessori schools around Minnesota and Wisconsin.
His research interests include measurement of attention and executive functioning in children and adults, the effects of living in poverty on child development, and the neurodevelopmental benefits of classical Montessori education.
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