About me
Carly Andrews has spent her career supporting children’s developmental journeys from preschool through high school. For the last five years, Carly has served as Head of School at Baker Demonstration School in Wilmette, Illinois. Prior to Baker, she served as Head of School at Willowwind School, an independent PK-6th grade school in Iowa City, Iowa and Assistant Head of School as well as Head of Middle School at Bosque School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Carly earned her B.A. in English Education and TESOL at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, her M.A. at Middlebury College, and completed the Educational Leadership Licensure program at the University of Iowa. Prior to her work in school leadership, Carly taught reading and language arts in independent, suburban, and urban school settings. She also taught at Clark Montessori in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first public Montessori secondary school in the United States, where she was trained in Montessori methodology and place-based field studies. She has studied language, literacy, and culture at the University of Iowa, where she taught pre-service teachers about the intersections of race, culture, and identity in literacy classrooms. Carly has presented at schools and national conferences on learning and the brain, conflict and leadership, and project-based learning and community partnerships. She currently serves on the Board of the Sofia Center for Professional Development.
