Team Member
Dane Peters Video Presenter
Dane currently serves as a consultant to schools and non-profit boards of trustees. He retired as head of Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, a Toddler through 8th grade school in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to heading BHMS for eleven years, he served as head of Mooreland Hill School in Connecticut for eleven years. He recently completed his service as the Administrator for the New York State Association of Independent School’s (NYSAIS) Experienced Leaders Advising Schools (ELAS) program and now serves as an ed-visor and mentor for the program.
Among his thirty-eight years teaching and coaching in independent school education, ten were served in boarding schools. A Klingenstein Fellow and former lecturer and graduate student Field Coach at the Klingenstein Center, Dane served as Director of the New England New Teachers Seminar; on the faculty of the NAIS New Heads Institute; and as a mentor with the NAIS/E.E. Ford Fellowship for Aspiring Heads. He also served as the Director of NYSAIS Beginning Teachers Institute; served on the Experienced Teachers Institute; and chaired the Professional Development Committee and the Council for Professional Learning and Collaboration for NYSAIS. He has chaired many accreditation visiting committees for both NYSAIS and the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools.
He has served on thirteen non-profit boards, three as president and two as head of school. He currently serves on the Seacoast Repertory Theater Board of Trustees, recently served as a Secretary on the NYSAIS Board of Trustees and the Vice President and Treasurer of the American Montessori Society (AMS) Board of Directors.
