Does this sound familiar? Your summer break is starting, and you’ve decided that this is the year you’re going to engage in some…
Teacher Talk: Summer Restoration
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Teacher Talk
Teacher Talk: Balasana
Some weeks feel heavier than others. Maybe your classrooms have been a little unruly, preparing for the end of the school year. Maybe the…
Teacher Talk: Hosting Special Events
This time of year brings so many emotions: joy at the accomplishments of the classroom, sadness at saying goodbye, regret for what you’d…
Teacher Talk: Modeling Gratitude
Teaching is hard. Of this there is no doubt. And as teachers, we are often challenged to present an infallible face, a superhuman wisdom,…
Teacher Talk: The Manipulative Teacher
Montessori identified the need to manipulate as one of the Tendencies of Humans, those core qualities that we share across cultures and…
Teacher Talk: How to Say Goodbye
You know all the routines, the end-of-school traditions that help to bookend the year your classroom community has spent together, 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: Rest
It’s the weekend of Mother’s Day here in the US, and across the country, we’ll be celebrating mothers and mother figures, with flowers…
Teacher Talk: Concentration
When I was a much younger teacher, I had a student enigma, one of those kids who, despite everything I presented or didn’t, despite the…
Teacher Talk: Empathy
We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole…