Amanda attended the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a professional emphasis in printmaking. She worked as an artist-in-residence for the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa and taught art lessons to at-risk youth in the Tulsa area. Through this work, she fell in love with teaching. Ms. Amanda began working at Undercroft in August, 2005, as an assistant and says she connected right away with the Montessori philosophy. She received her Elementary I and II certification from the Houston Montessori Training Center in 2006 and took over her own upper elementary classroom in August, 2007. Amanda and her husband met in art school and have been married since October, 2003. He is the manager at the Central Library in downtown Tulsa. They share their home with their 3 cats.
