It’s an old game in Montessori teacher education programs: can you give your “elevator speech about Montessori,” that brief explanation…
Misconceptions and the Elevator Speech
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For Teachers
Limits and Freedoms
Montessorians often use the language of, “Freedom with limits,” to describe the open ended choice enjoyed by children in these…
The Arts in the Montessori Classroom
History demonstrates an ongoing tension between back-to-basics school reform and models that focus on the “whole child,” like Montessori,…
The Capacity to be Puzzled: Creativity and Montessori
‘What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of?…
Teacher Talk: Collaborating Across the Planes
Scientists repeat their experiments. But they don’t just repeat their own experiments. They often repeat each other’s as well. Repeating…
Teacher Talk: Why You Should Go to Conference and What You Should Do While You’re There
It’s almost Spring, that season when Montessori conferences pop up like daffodils to enchant and inspire Montessori teachers all over the…
Teacher Talk: Breaking Bread
Montessori teaching is a calling that demands self-care. We are intellectually engaged long beyond after the children have gone home,…
Teacher Talk: Teacher Motivation
For many of us, February days are some of the loveliest. The classroom is buzzing with a happy hum, parents understand the expectations…
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…