Setting Children Up For Success
Baan Dek · Episode 129 - Setting Children Up For Success There’s a scene from the show Schitt’s Creek that, if you’re familiar with the show, you’ll know from the following four words: fold →
Tearful Drop Offs
Baan Dek · Episode 121 -- Tearful Drop Offs We’re a few weeks into the start of the school year, and the little moments of “I don’t want to go to school,” or tears at →
What Montessori Taught Me
For a podcast of this post, listen here or subscribe on iTunes. This weekend, I had a homeowner adventure. The sink was slow and I didn’t really want to call a plumber. After dinner, I →
A Quick and Warm Goodbye
The seasons have started to change. Back-to-school, the real Most Wonderful Time of the Year. There’s so much anticipation and joy and newness. For many of us, there will be a bit of a change →
The Montessori Three-Hour Work Cycle
“So, what’s a typical day look like?” “When is it time to use the bathroom, or to have snack?” “When is art time?” These are such natural questions, and ones we hear frequently when families →
Why Five Days a Week
All our programs at Baan Dek are five days per week. We'd love to take this opportunity to explain why. It might be our most frequently asked question, and it's a perfectly normal one to →
A Mixed-Age Environment
A mixed-age environment is fundamental to a Montessori classroom, and we see the benefits of it daily. We wanted to explore some of those benefits in greater detail, as well as hypothesizing some of the →
A Letter From a Parent
As a former university professor, Donoso Escobar reflects upon his experience with the traditional education system, what types of learners it breeds, and how it compares to what he has witnessed with Montessori. The tone is hopeful, the dispatch →
How teachers are trained
The Montessori classroom looks a little bit different than what we typically think of as a traditional preschool environment. A question that often arises is, "How are the adults in the classroom trained? Are they →
Tips for Parents
We sat down with Mrs. Bauer, the leader of the Young Children's Community at Baan Dek, and put together a few basic tips for parents, which we hope are helpful, on how best to inspire language and math development, →
Kindergarten Montessori
At some point, all children at Baan Dek go on to have different adventures. As hard as it always is to see them go, we know they have amazing things to come. Since their earliest →
Our Expectations of Childhood
We’ve been puzzling over a little bit of a paradox, one in which we occasionally find ourselves entangled. It goes something like this: As adults, why are we so surprised when a child accomplishes a →
Drop-off and Pick-up
Drop-off and pick-up are two of the most important times of the entire day. Here are a few insights that we've gathered over the years. We hope you find them useful. These are many of →
