Monica Nixon, Head of School at Mountain Laurel, founded the school in 1989 for her own daughter.  Ms. Nixon holds a Bachelor Degree in Art Education from Middle Tennessee State University. Her graduate work includes an AMI Primary Diploma from Atlanta Montessori Institute and an AMI Elementary Diploma from Washington Montessori Institute. Additionally, she has training in teaching math to adolescents from The Math Institute.  She has over 40 years of experience as a Montessori teacher at both the Primary and Elementary levels and has directed her current elementary class since 1995.   She also teaches math to our middle school students.

Ms. Nixon loves to be in the thick of classroom life, making new discoveries and expanding horizons along with the children.  Supporting the students as they nurture friendships and resolve conflicts with strength and compassion is one of her many daily delights of the elementary class.