Tim Seldin is the President of The Montessori Foundation and Chair of The International Montessori Council. His more than forty years of experience in Montessori education includes twenty-two years as Headmaster of the Barrie School in Silver Spring, Maryland, which he attended through high school graduation. He served as the Director of the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies and as Headmaster and currently as executive director of the New Gate School in Sarasota, Florida.