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Sandi McDonald-West, of Denton, TX, died March 11, 2023, at the age of 92. She was an early AMS member and Montessori trailblazer who touched the lives of thousands.
Sandi was a young mother of five children when she first learned about Montessori while working in public schools in the Cleveland, OH, area. In a 2011 interview·, Sandi explained: "I was a speech pathologist and...[the school] asked me to work with some children in second and third grade who hadn't learned how to read." Sandi's mother was a reading specialist and suggested that Sandi use Montessori materials with the children. Within no time, the children were reading; "[The school] thought I was a miracle worker," Sandi recalled.
It wasn't long before Montessori would become...