Gretchen Hall is the AMI Primary Director of Training at the Montessori Training Center of Northeast, located in Hartford Connecticut. Ms. Hall has over 20 years of Montessori experience in both public and private schools as a classroom teacher, administrator, consultant. Gretchen is currently directing her 20th course as an AMI Primary Trainer and has experience training and lecturing, both at home and around the world. She is passionate about Montessori for all children and was the pedagogical director of Connecticut’s first public Montessori school for twelve years. During that time, she led the school’s goal of eliminating the achievement gap for literacy, grounded in the Montessori pedagogy. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and holds a master’s degree in Montessori Education from Loyola University.