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Positive Feedback

Thoughts & Reflections

No matter how many times we observe a new student engaging with the cylinder blocks for the very first time, we are absolutely overwhelmed. Watch as this student attempts to find the correct hole for the corresponding cylinder, going back and forth, as he navigates the activity with enthusiasm. In Montessori, the materials offer positive […]

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Montessori Blueprints

Other Good Things

Bringing together the worlds of Montessori & Architecture, Bobby George and Hugh Weber teamed up to create a series of high quality and aesthetically beautiful Montessori blueprints. As many of you know, they successfully funded their Kickstarter campaign, on June 16, 2012. Now that the posters & lithographs have been printed, they’ve set up a site where […]

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Spotlight Michelle Lane

Spotlights

When we firsted started Baan Dek, we contacted Michelle Lane for advice. We had followed her pioneering work, and knew she was the type of advocate for education that we wanted to chat with. She was so helpful & thoughtful in her responses. Needless to say, ever since, she’s been an inspiration to us. A […]

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Finding Montessori

Thoughts & Reflections

One of our newest families, who just moved here from Philadelphia, sent us an incredible note. With their permission, we couldn’t help but share it here. For us, the letter says so much. We feel very fortunate to have such compassionate, understanding and engaging families. Block by block, we feel the community growing. Not only […]

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Helping Each Other

Thoughts & Reflections

Our goals aren’t always academic in nature. As a matter of fact, and as many of you know, we have a phrase that we use at Baan Dek: social success leads to academic success. Basically, we want to create the conditions in which children are happy, and inspired on their own, to want to learn. […]

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