Baan Dek

Absorbent Mind

Other Good Things

We sometimes think, we got into Education because we love learning. At Baan Dek, one of our Guiding Principles is, we’re always learning. We’re never done. It naturally follows that we love engaging in continuing education at weekly staff meetings and on inservice days. This year, we decided to read Maria Montessori’s The Absorbent Mind […]

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Lunch

Other Good Things

It’s the first week back to school, and we could hardly be more excited! It’s so joyful to see new faces, and to see how children have changed over the Summer. Some of us have haircuts, or have grown taller, or are showing off a few new accessories, like a lunchbox or backpack. Already, though, […]

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Accidental Montessorian

Other Good Things

The internet is an interesting place. It’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole of Pinterest, or find a thousand quotes which seem to be written just for you in just this moment of life, or spend much too long watching or reading things which are only casually interesting. We stumbled across a video recently, […]

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Siblings!

Other Good Things

We recently held a webinar on the topic of Siblings! We often receive questions from families about the sibling dynamic: We’re expecting, now what? How do we help prepare our child (and ourselves!) for welcoming a new baby? Why do they argue so much? I know they love each other, and they’re kind here, but […]

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The Architecture of Montessori

Podcasts

Nearly a decade ago now, when we started to think seriously about building a Montessori school, we decided to reach out to a handful of internationally renown architects. Why not? We chose individuals or organizations that we felt could significantly contribute to a better understanding of Montessori learning environments. Architects who seemed keenly interested in […]

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