MONTESSORI
ASM
CURRICULUM
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
THE 2006-2007
ASM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Diane Bauer, President, Diversity Committee Co-chair
Anthony Capone, Technology Committee Chair, Buildings and Grounds Co-chair
Thomas Caruso, Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair
Tanya Gould, Personnel Practices Committee Chair, Buildings and Grounds Co-chair
Heather Lauten, Secretary
Julie Springwater, Ombudsperson, Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Christopher Smith, Buildings and Grounds Committee Chair
Sal Tabit
Karen Aznoian
Roger Boucher
Shawne Robinson
The Andover School of Montessori is a Board run independent Montessori school currently serving 206 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. The members of the ASM Board of Directors are elected on rotating terms of three years each by the general members at the Annual Meeting of the corporation. The officers of the Board are elected annually by the Board of Directors.
The school has been awarded accreditation from both the American Montessori Society and the Association of Independent Schools of New England. ASM currently is initiating a five-year strategic planning process to position the school as the pre-eminent independent Montessori educational institution in the Merrimack Valley.
Diane Bauer, Board President, Diversity Committee Co-chair
During the six years that Ms. Bauer has served on the Board of Directors, she has held various positions:
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Served six years on the ASM Board of Directors
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Board President Five years
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Chair, Middle School Task Force
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Co-chair of ASM Capital Campaign Fund
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Marketing Chair, two years
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Chair, Head of School Search Committee
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Co-chair, Diversity Committee
Career Highlights:
Independent Business Consultant:
Ms. Bauer is an independent business consultant specializing in the areas of Business Systems Analysis and Business Process Re-Engineering of software applications for the Financial Services Industry, Travel Industry, and Insurance Industry clients. She also has significant experience providing consulting to various area companies in the realm of Client Relationship Management.
Prior to establishing her own business consulting practice, Ms Bauer was a senior consultant with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting firm. She has also held senior training and development positions with local technology firms as well as holding the position of Instructional Development Officer for the Educational Consortium of the Commission for Higher Education, State of Connecticut.
Education:
Ms. Bauer has a MS in Management Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MA in Educational Communications from Fairfield University, and a BA in Social Sciences from Syracuse University. She has also completed the Executive Education program at the University of Michigan.
Ms. Bauer and her husband have two children. Their son is a recent ASM alumni currently attending Lawrence Academy and their daughter is currently in Upper Elementary. Both children have enjoyed their opportunity at ASM to become independent life-long learners experiencing a joy of learning.
Anthony Capone, Technology Committee, Buildings and Grounds Co-chair
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Thomas S. Caruso, Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair
Tom Caruso is currently Senior Vice President, Regional Executive for Corporate Banking-New Hampshire, at Sovereign Bank. He manages the New Hampshire corporate lending group.
Tom has been a Commercial Banker in the Merrimack Valley for over 30 years and his office is located at One Wall Street in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Tom and his wife Alison are lifelong residents of Haverhill and are both active volunteers in the Community. He is a Vice President on the Board of Directors of the Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of its Legislative Action Committee. He is also a member of the National Exchange Club, an organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse. Both Tom and Alison are dedicated supporters and advocates for the Montessori method of education.
Their daughter, Keleigh graduated from ASM in June, 2006 and is now attending The White Mountain School in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Their son, Adam, completed his fourth year at ASM and is now attending the Woodland Community School, also in Bethlehem.
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Tanya Gould, Ph.D., Personnel Practices Committee Chair, Buildings and Grounds
Co-chair
Tanya Gould has been involved with ASM since 1994, when her daughter Sara began Children’s House. During the past eleven years Tanya has filled a number of roles at ASM. She served as President of the Parents’ Association at the time of the school’s move from St. Michaels to its present location, and when the school was not finished on schedule she ran an impromptu day care until the school was able to open. She has served on a number of the standing and ad hoc committees of the Parents’ Association and ASM Board and has actively participated in and coordinated fundraising events at ASM. She has been a member of the Board since 2003.
Tanya has become increasingly interested in participating in the lives of the children of ASM. She has been a Girl Scout Troop leader at ASM for five years, a substitute teacher in Children’s House for six years, and a weekly assistant in Extended Day for five years. She has been the fortunate recipient of a hands-on introduction to the Montessori method from the wonderful Children’s House staff and has done independent study with Linda Edmands.
Prior to motherhood, Tanya’s focus was clinical psychology. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in psychology. She did her graduate work in clinical psychology at Duke University, where she specialized in geriatric neuropsychology. Her Master’s and Doctoral theses were on the neuropsychological differentiation of early stage Alzheimer’s disease and the normal cognitive deterioration associated with aging. She was a Teaching Fellow at Duke University and was Coordinator of the Duke Psychology Clinic. She has held research and clinical positions at the Duke Memory Disorders Clinic, the V.A. Medical Center in Durham, N.C., the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in N.Y, and the Boston V.A. Medical Center.
Having studied the inexorable cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease, Tanya is particularly sensitive to just how wondrous cognitive development is. “I love being present at those ‘aha’ moments when a child makes a breakthrough and suddenly understands something new. And I particularly appreciate that in the prepared environment of the ASM classroom, those ‘aha’ moments are allowed to unfold naturally, when the child is ready. I am strongly committed to the staff and children of ASM, and I consider it a great privilege to serve on the ASM Board.” Tanya is married to Jeremy Finkle, a local physician. She is the mother of Sara Finkle, a local ninth grader, who spent eight years at ASM and is now a student at The Pingree School.
Heather Lauten, Secretary
Christopher Smith, Buildings and Grounds Committee Chair
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  As
president of Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI), Christopher is responsible
for leading the company’s training division. AGI provides software
training, consulting, and support services to professionals and creative
organizations.
Christopher co-founded Aquent Graphics Institute (previously American Graphics Institute) in 1994 after leaving Quark, Inc. He quickly grew AGI to become the leading technology training and consulting resource for nearly every major advertising, media, publishing, and marketing firm in North America. In 2007 AGI became part of Aquent. With more than 15 years of electronic publishing experience, Christopher provides business strategy and change management consulting services to communications professionals and publishers. He is widely considered one of the foremost industry experts regarding electronic publishing software and has authored numerous books, including Real World Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (CS and CS2 versions), InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, Moving to InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite 2 for Dummies, and Sam's Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat in 24 Hours, Adobe Photoshop Elements Classroom in a Book, Adobe Premiere Elements Classroom in a Book. Christopher also manages content for the annual Adobe Acrobat and PDF Conference and the CRE8 Conference held each spring in Orlando, Florida. Chris lives in Andover with his wife, Jennifer, and 5 children. Grant is in CH2 and Elizabeth is in CH3. Outside of AGI, he has served as an elected member of the School Board in his hometown in suburban Boston, Massachusetts where he had oversight of a $50 million annual budget in an enterprise with more than 900 employees. |
Julie Sweeney Springwater, MSW,
Ombudsperson, Strategic Planning Committee Chair
Julie has been the Director of the New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors for the past 10 years. The Association is located at Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. Julie also directs the Human Service Management Certificate Program at Boston University School of Social Work where she teaches courses on management of public and non public agencies and strategic management. She is a board member of the Child Welfare League of America and is an incorporator for the New England Network for Child and Family Services. Julie is married and has one child, Jeffrey, who is an 8th grade student in the middle school at Andover School Montessori.
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