Montessori Discovery Place

Purviz Birdie, Director, Montessori Discovery Place

Purviz Birdie, B.A., holds an Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) diploma and has over twenty five years of Montessori teaching experience. She has worked with children ages eighteen months to six years in Montessori schools in Virginia and Kansas, USA. In 1997, Purviz established Montessori Discovery Place.

She is a member of the American Montessori Society, Association Montessori Internationale, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), World Association of Early Childhood Educators (WAECE) and has also served as a board member of the Douglas County Child Development Association in Kansas. She has led workshops and open-houses incorporating Montessori based curriculum and philosophy for early childhood professionals in traditional preschools and home based programs.

In addition to operating Montessori Discovery Place, Purviz also offers early childhood seminars and trainings to early childhood educators through various organizations and agencies in the Northeast Kansas area. Additionally, she has also collaborated with the Ministries of Education in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands in the British West Indies to provide early childhood teacher training incorporating the Montessori philosophy.