The Learning Tree School

Founder of The Learning Tree School, Judy Allen has been a teacher of young children for more than years and a workshop instructor for many more years. She is co-author of "Cultural Awareness for Children," a teacher's resource book used in universities throughout the U.S. As a member of the Center for US/USSR Initiatives, she taught in schools in the former Soviet Union and in Lithuania two years, and presented at a seminar at the Teachers Pedagogical Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has been involved in work with orphanages in Russia and China for the past 16 years, helping to establish The Foster Grandmother Program at a children's hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia. She also visited schools in Venezuela. Judy brings these worldly endeavors to sculpt the school in which she founded for the betterment of the children.