About the Author

Andrée Rolfe has accumulated over 35 years of experience working with children in the area of spelling.  She served as a special education teacher, Learning Consultant, and Supervisor of Special Services in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.  A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Rolfe has taught masters level courses in reading and special education at Fordham University.  She recently earned Montessori credentials at the elementary level from Washington Montessori Institute and is now an educational specialist and a teacher educator in the AMS and AMI Montessori communities.  Dr. Rolfe works nationwide as a spelling consultant and over the past 20 years, she has launched developmental spelling programs in a wide range of public, private, and Montessori classrooms.