Hannah Richardson is a Montessori leader, strategist, and systems-builder who has spent more than twenty years working across independent, public, charter, and justice-centered Montessori schools. Her work focuses on strengthening the adult environment — leadership, culture, operations, communication, staffing, and organizational clarity — so schools can serve children with greater alignment, sustainability, and purpose.

She has served as a classroom guide, coach, leadership mentor, consultant, director of curriculum and instruction, and head of school. She has led programs from Infant through Middle School and worked in school communities ranging from ninety students to eight hundred. Those experiences shaped a simple truth she carries into all of her work:

Montessori schools don’t struggle because educators don’t care — they struggle when the systems supporting the adults are unclear, fragmented, or inequitable.

The Montessori Makers Toolbox was created to respond to that reality.

Rather than leaving leaders to reinvent documents, policies, frameworks, and protocols on their own, the Toolbox provides practical, adaptable resources rooted in Montessori values, clarity, and belonging. Every tool is designed not just to “get paperwork done,” but to help schools build environments where adults feel prepared, trusted, and supported — which in turn strengthens the experience of children and families.

Hannah’s work centers the belief that Montessori is a living practice, not a fixed tradition — and that evolving our adult systems is part of honoring the philosophy, not drifting from it. She approaches leadership and organizational design with a blend of practicality, compassion, data-awareness, and social responsibility, supporting schools in becoming more intentional, humane, and aligned.

The Toolbox is one expression of that commitment:
real tools for real schools — built for the people doing the work every day.