After graduating from Mount Vernon College, Mary Lou earned her Montessori Primary Diploma in 1964 before founding The Cobb School, Montessori, of which she was Head of School for 45 years. She is currently the founder and principal consultant of Cobb Education Consulting, LLC. Mary Lou is a founding board member of The Montessori Administrators Association, the Montessori Training Center of New England and the Montessori Schools of Connecticut. She continues to serve on the boards of The Montessori Training Center of New England. She has also served on SPHERE, a coalition of Connecticut independent schools dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and on the Commission for Membership and Accreditation for the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools. Mary Lou is Vice President of the Whole School Leadership Board and a trained instructor for the Association of Montessori Internationale’s Montessori for the Aging.