Are your shelves cleaned? Have you reorganized your cupboards? Are they a safe distance apart? Decided whether the loft should be a…
Teacher Talk: Preparing for the New Year
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All Planes
Montessori in the Airport
Ideally, we’re all working together to create a world with seamless transitions for children’s development, when they can move smoothly…
Montessori in the Backseat
If you’re like most American families, your child spends at least some time every day strapped into a carseat in the backseat of the car….
Material Matters
Visitors to Montessori classrooms often comment on the beautiful materials on the shelves, the lovely wooden crafted puzzles, graceful…
Dinnertime
You’ve heard it before: families that sit down to dinner together enjoy higher academic outcomes for their kids, higher self-esteem, and…
The Most Important Meal of the Day
If you’re like many families, mornings are hectic. Sleepy parents, sleepy adults, breakfast to make, lunches to pack, school bags, work…
What happens next…
While this is the time of year when many parents and schools are preparing for their Fall registrations, when new combinations of…
Preserving their Spirits
The human spirit, that human spirit that we should first and foremost consider when we think of education, is glorious, enthusiastic; it…
Supporting Montessori in the Public Sector
It’s been almost fifty years since the rapid expansion of Montessori education brought this method to the public sector, and today, there…
Teacher Talk: When Children Are Hurtful
The child is capable of developing and giving us tangible proof of the possibility of a better humanity. He has shown us the true process…