John Albright, Teacher [AMI Elementary Certification]

Mr. Albright was appointed to his two-year term as Staff Representative to the board in 2004. John joined Oak Hill in 1999 as an assistant in Upper Elementary.  In 2001 he developed the Oak Hill Montessori junior high curriculum, and founded the first Adolescent Community class in 2002. John is a teacher, writer, historian, husband and parent.

John has an Elementary Certificate from the Association Montessori Internationale (Washington Montessori Institute at Loyola, 1999). He has also earned a Masters (Luther Seminary, 1994) and a Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, 2004) in the Historical Study of Christianity. His greatest accomplishment at Oak Hill thus far has been the recent graduation of the school’s first class of eighth graders. John has one child, Ezra who attended the Infant and Toddler Communities and joined Children’s House in 2004.

Arden Ashley, Teacher

Shannon Detlefsen, Assistant Teacher