Michele Wilensky

Michele Wilensky has served as the head of school for Hilltop Montessori School for over a decade and is currently spearheading the next phase of the school’s development, a $3 million capital campaign for an expansion of its campus. The expansion will include a gymnasium, a community center, a science lab, additional classrooms and a teaching kitchen that will serve organic lunches supplemented from the school’s expansive gardens. Under Michele’s leadership, the school had the privilege of building Alabama’s first LEED-rated private school, an honor given by the U.S. Green Building Council, and has successfully completed accreditation requirements with The Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) and The American Montessori Society (AMS), as well as a capital expansion of its early childhood program. The campus is situated on over six acres in the beautiful Town of Mt Laurel and serves students between the ages of 18 months and eighth grade. Devoting her life to Montessori education and its benefit to students of varying backgrounds and abilities, Michele finds renewal each day in seeing the joy of learning in all the students’ faces at Hilltop. 

Michele has one 15-year-old son and 3 stepchildren. She resides with her husband in Forest Park and sees her commitment to the school as her life’s purpose, in addition to her role as mother and wife.

Hilltop Montessori School

437-9343 • hilltopmontessori.com • 6 Abbott Square

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