As many of you know, the aesthetics of the Montessori classroom is vital. We thought we would take this opportunity to explain the reason we display the materials so carefully, in such a neat and orderly fashion on the shelves. First, we believe that the activities must be appealing to the children. We want the […]
What is individualized education? We want to take this opportunity to explain. In this post, we’ll highlight a few principles that will better articulate what exactly it means to offer personal, individualized, one-on-one education. We’ll also, and as an accompaniment to this short article, offer a visual glimpse. As they say, “seeing is believing”. Let’s […]
Competition is a tricky concept in Montessori. We thought we would take this opportunity to try to elucidate the conditions of competition and offer a few thoughts on competition and why Montessori employs collaboration instead of competition. What does it mean to compete? In a very fundamental sense, competition has become a mainstay in the […]
© The Great Discontent The good folks at The Great Discontent, who you should definitely follow, published a wonderfully candid interview with Maria Popova, of whom we are a great admirer. You can read the interview here. We’re kind of in love with Maria Popova, and the tremendous amount of work that she does at […]
On Saturday, December 1, at 2:00 p.m. we’ll be participating in a book signing at Barnes and Noble, here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. While we’re a little embarassed to be signing books (exclamation point!), we couldn’t be prouder of our two titles, Letter Work and Number Work! We hope to see you there.