Hi! My name is Rosemarie (aka Rosie) Bushbaum. Since teaching children of poverty and their families in the mid 80s, I have had a desire and interest to involve myself once again with those less fortunate. I am a 28 year veteran Montessori teacher and have committed my professional career to teaching children in a Montessori environment. It all began when I was a volunteer in Portland, Maine at a Head Start program in 1986 and continued when I transferred to a Montessori School for low-income children the following year. It was in 1988 at Notre Dame Montessori School in Dorchester, Massachusetts that I fell in love with the Montessori philosophy. Here I observed children eager and enthusiastic as they manipulated, explored, and discovered with the hands-on materials that Maria Montessori developed over 100 years ago for children in the slums of Rome, Italy. In 1992 I moved from New Hampshire to Alaska, where I taught in another Montessori school for 11 years. I moved to Henderson, Nevada in 2003 and have been teaching since then at Foothills Montessori School. Since stepping foot into that Montessori school many years ago in Dorchester, I have never looked back. To continue my passion for Montessori and share the philosophy and hands-on materials with those less fortunate, It is my dream to volunteer for two months this summer at Upendo Montessori School in Usa River, Tanzania. Upendo means love and affection in Swahili.