January is a great time for reminders… for many schools, this is the return to the work cycle after an extended holiday. For others, it…
The Three Period Lesson
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Teacher Talk: Making Time for Observation
You may be getting ready to return to your classroom with a whole list of teacher resolutions in your mind. Maybe you’re planning to take…
Time is on Our Side
“It’s time to go.” “We don’t have time.” “What time is it?” “Time will tell.” Children hear lots about “time,” but often struggle with…
Teacher Talk: Hygge
This Saturday, if you’re like most teachers, you find yourself away from school, maybe resting, maybe preparing for the festivities of…
Peace Education: The Cultural Materials
The peacefulness of Montessori classrooms is promoted through the design of those classrooms, the nature of the materials to evoke…
Peace Education and Purposeful Activity
“You have very truly remarked that if we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall…
Peace Education: Follow the Child
In all the ways through which Montessori classrooms seek to support and promote the intrinsic peacefulness of children, perhaps the most…
Teacher Talk: Grace and Courtesy and the Adult
“The vision of the teacher should be at once precise like that of the scientist, and spiritual like that of the saint. The preparation…
Chaos and Dancing Stars
It’s November… about eight weeks or so into most classroom’s academic year, and the time when we start to think of the environments…
Wonder and the Child
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” -…