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Preparing for the First Day of School: 0-3

Whether this is the first time your child is headed to school or you're preparing for your youngest of six, the first day of school evoke...

Teacher Talk: Preparing for the New Year

Are your shelves cleaned? Have you reorganized your cupboards? Are they a safe distance apart? Decided whether the loft should be a readi...

Summer with your Infant/Toddler

This is a curious summer. Some children have returned to school after months away. Others are still at home with their families, maybe now...

Maintaining Community from a Distance

Montessori teaching is a calling that demands self-care. We are intellectually engaged long beyond after the children have gone home, ana...

“The secret of all nature is to be found in the soul of a child.”

You may be getting ready to return to your classroom this fall with a whole list of teacher resolutions in your mind. Maybe you're planni...

“We ask for obedience from children, and the children ask for the moon.”

These are curious days, when we are neither where we have been nor where we are going, comfortable in this in-between space because we’ve...

“It is important to realize that in the first period of a child’s growth his environment and the imp

When Montessorians talk about protecting the child's spiritual development, we are not talking about issues of religion or theology. In t...

“Their interest in and their ability to play musical selections are enhanced by the opportunity they

Montessori describes the ideal analysis of rhythm, notes, notation and other individual components of music that she proposes can be taug...

"The eyes observe things with greater accuracy and discover the beauties concealed in natural o

History demonstrates an ongoing tension between back-to-basics school reform and models that focus on the “whole child,” like Montessori,...

"A child's reaction to such a lot reveals a great deal about his character."

Math is a language of the spirit. Really. When Montessori acknowledged that the tendency toward the construction of the mathematical mind...

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