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Head of School
Kateri Carver-Akers, Ph.D, IMSNC.HS@GMAIL.COMKateri@languagecenternc.org
Kateri Carver-Akers knew when she was very young that she was interested in cross-cultural communication. At 12 years old, she began to teach herself French, knowing that one day she would work with languages! At 15, during her junior year of high school, she did her first immersion experience in French speaking Belgium. This experience provided her first hand knowledge of how the immersion technique works. During college and graduate school, Kateri studied in the bilingual (German and French) University of Friburg in Switzerland and at Nanterre Paris X in France. While Kateri founded IMS by lead teaching in the French immersion Montessori classroom, she has been a full time Head of School since August 2005. She trains teachers on Strategies for Montessori Language immersion Environments and gives papers and publishes in topics related to both Montessori and language immersion education.
See Kateri's article published in Montessori Life Magazine:
Our Young Cultural Ambassadors: Montessori Peacemakers for a Modern World
Office
Sara Kerr IMSNC.OFFICE@GMAIL.COM
Sara is the Board Vice President and is filling in at the office this fall until a replacement can be hired. See below for her biography.
Board of Directors imsboard@gmail.comimsboard@gmail.comimsboard@gmail.com
| Hendrik Fischer, President | hfischer@nc.rr.comhfischer@nc.rr.comhfischer@nc.rr.com |
| Hendrik joined the Board as President in May, 2007. He is a Vice President with Bowe Bell+Howell, a leading provider for document processing solutions, located in RTP. Hendrik currently has 1 student enrolled at IMS. | |
| Sara Kerr, Vice President | sgkerr1995@yahoo.comsgkerr1995@yahoo.comsgkerr1995@yahoo.com |
| Sara joined the Board as Vice President in May, 2007. She is a marketing and reseach consultant. She is the parent of two La Maison students. As a child she attended a Montessori school and fondly recalls her own work in the Prepared Environments. | |
| Dominique Gignac | dgignac@earthlink.netdgignac@earthlink.netdgignac@earthlink.net |
| Dominique is the parent of a current, former and future La Maison student. She is a natiive French speaker from Canada and pharmacist at Duke University. | |
| Margie Boccieri | mboccieri@gmail.commboccieri@gmail.commboccieri@gmail.com |
| Margie joined the Board in the summer of 2007 and is primarily focused on fundraising and capital development for IMS. This is her fourth year with children in the La Maison class. Margie is an independent consultant currently assisting a horticulture author on a series of book projects. Her previous work experience in North Carolina included serving on the staff of former Governor Jim Hunt for science and technology policy, and in corporate and product development for a local venture capital fund and two local start-up companies. | |
| Betsy Friedman Eble | Betsy.Eble@gmail.comBetsy.Eble@gmail.comBetsy.Eble@gmail.com |
| Mother of four IMS alumni, Betsy joined the board
in 2001 and served as Secretary from 2001-2007.
Betsy is a parter in Tobacco Road Technologies, Inc, a Chapel Hill
company providing web-based patient safety and risk management
solutions for the healthcare industry. | |
| Andrew Kennedy | akennedy@foodlogic.comakennedy@foodlogiq.comakennedy@foodlogiq.com |
| Andrew joined the board as president in 2004 and served in that role until
May, 2007. He is a parent of one IMS alum and one future IMS student.
Andrew is president of FoodLogiQ LLC, (www.foodlogiq.com) a leading provider
of web based food safety and traceability systems, located in the Research
Triangle Park. | |
| Christophe La Hovary | lahovary@verizon.netlahovary@verizon.netlahovary@verizon.net |
| Christophe is the parent of a La Maison student. He is a natiive French speaker from Canada
and Ph.D. student at NC State. | |
| Marc Paradis | makalam@earthlink.netmakalam@earthlink.netmakalam@earthlink.net |
| Marc is the parent of 2 La Maison Alumnae--some of Kateri's very first students. He is the former Vice President of the Board. He, too, hails from Canada. | |
| Treasuer | |
| This position is open! Please think about joining us as a volunteer. Accounting skills are required. | |
