Donna Bryant Goertz

Donna Bryant Goertz is a Montessori educator and the founder of Austin Montessori School, which she established in 1967. She received her AMI elementary diploma from the Fondazione Centro Internazionale Studi Montessoriani in Bergamo, Italy, and later earned an AMI Assistants to Infancy diploma from The Montessori Institute of Denver.

Goertz is the author of Children Who Are Not Yet Peaceful: Preventing Exclusion in the Early Elementary Classroom, co-authored with Mary Louise Kelly. Drawing on her experience guiding early-elementary students in a Texas Montessori classroom, the book follows twelve children and examines how a carefully prepared classroom community can support social and behavioral change.