Michael & Toby Gress:
VMS is owned and operated by Michael and Toby Gress,
certified Montessori teachers and graduates of the University of South Florida.
The
Gresses hold degrees in Early Childhood Education, Elementary, and Secondary
Education.
The Gresses’ Montessori training took place in Tampa, Fla. directly under Dr.
Helen K. Billings,
the founder of the Montessori Institute of America.
She instilled in all of her protégés a deep conviction that the Montessori Method,
properly approached and applied, would greatly benefit the whole life of the
children under their care.
This love for the child and the man or woman they would become has grown over
the years.
Currently, the Gresses are under the the mentorship of Joan Parasine,
Founder and Head of School at Montessori School of McLean,
an AMS Accredited school and one of the oldest Montessori schools in the Washington
area.