Shigeko Ito

Shigeko Ito grew up in Japan and immigrated to the US in her early twenties to pursue higher education. She holds an MEd and a Montessori teaching certificate from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, CA, and a PhD in Education from Stanford University, where she wrote her dissertation on Japanese preschool education. Ito is an avid animal lover, especially of dogs, and enjoys birding, gardening, and raising mason bees. For many years she has worked at a Montessori preschool in Seattle, WA, where she lives with her husband of thirty years.