Lindsey Pollock

Dr. Pollock’s 35+ years of experience in early childhood education started working with infants and parents as an ECI intake coordinator for Harris County’s MHMRA – Infant Program.  She then moved to become the director of a national early childhood center. She went on to co-found a private school system serving infants to middle schoolers in the Houston area before becoming a public school educator.  In the Houston and Galena Park ISD’s she served as a classroom teacher, Special Education school social worker, and administrator.  She was the principal of Garden Oaks Montessori (PK3 – 8th gr) a public school in Houston ISD for 13 years of her public school career before retiring in 2021.  She is currently the Provost of Sarasota University, THE Montessori University.

Dr. Pollock has consulted with schools across the United States and has been an international speaker/consultant to school systems/organizations in Sweden, China, Brazil, Mexico and Ghana. She has written numerous educational articles for national publications and recently co-authored Setting the Stage for Learning: Activating the Power of Stories to Facilitate Learning with Dr. Bill Sommers.  Dr. Pollock holds an AMS Montessori Administrator credential along with her Texas Teaching certifications in Elementary Education (1st – 8th grades), Special Education (PK – 12), English as a Second Language, Speech Communications (1st – 8th grades), Mid-Management Administrator (PK – 12) and Superintendent (EC – 12) as well as an AMI Montessori Elder Care Practitioner Certification from Brush Development.

She was chosen as a Rice Fellow in the Rice Education Entrepreneurial Program (REEP), represented the United States as a Fulbright Exchange Principal and attended Harvard with Raise Your Hand Texas for numerous certification programs in Educational Leadership. She was one of a handful of school administrators who completed the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ (NBPTS) Principal Certification pilot program.  She earned Master’s Degrees in Montessori Integrative Learning, Educational Leadership, and Social Work as well as a Doctorate in Educational Leadership.  Her dissertation, Square Pegs in Round Holes:  Montessori Principals’ Perceptions of Science Instruction in Texas Public Schools, was recognized as ground-breaking research in Montessori public experiences.  In her free time, she volunteers as the Executive Director of The Lian Dante Foundation in Houston, TX and serves on several non-profit boards. Her efforts continue to impact her community, classrooms and organizations in new and ever-meaningful ways!