Montessori Australia Ambassador

Gavin McCormack is a renowned Montessori-trained teacher with a passion for innovative education practices. With over two decades of teaching experience in multiple countries, Gavin has been named the Montessori Australia Ambassador and has built nine schools, several libraries and run three teacher training centres in Nepal. He is a co-founder of Upschool.co and EducationInfluence.com, platforms that aim to bring about meaningful change in the education sector. Gavin is also a bestselling author of "The Potential in Every Child" and a children's author with books focusing on life skills. His dedication to promoting education equality has led to him being recognized as one of the top ten most influential global educators in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, and he was nominated for Australian of the Year in 2018. Connect with Gavin to learn more about his personal pedagogy and educational philosophy and to collaborate on programming, classroom management, and pedagogy. In 2022 he joined Montessori Australia as our Ambassador.