Spotlight Mary Flewelling-Pinchen
August 9, 2018Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? When I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be a teacher. After excelling all through public →
Montessori Summer — Actually Follow the Child
August 2, 2018This post is part of our summer podcast series about Montessori outside school. If you’re just joining in now, we encourage you to check out the previous posts in this series, and to check out →
Ritual with Young Children
July 30, 2018We find comfort in ritual. It’s part of the human experience, and it crosses culture, time, age. We have evidence of rituals in ancient Egypt, and surely the mystery of Stonehenge hid ritual long forgotten. →
Spotlight Living With My Little Love
July 26, 2018Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Hi, I’m Natalie! I live with my husband and 3 year old daughter on an island just of the →
The Montessori Three Period Lesson
July 23, 2018There’s a tool we use almost constantly in the classroom. In fact, we all use it, all the time! It’s something called a Three Period Lesson, and it’s essentially how we all learn language. There →
Montessori Summer — One Difficult Area
July 19, 2018This summer, we’re looking at ways to incorporate Montessori outside the classroom, on both the blog and on the podcast. In the last weeks, we explored Space and Time, and this time we’re bringing those →
Crossing the Midline: How Science Supports Montessori
July 16, 2018A really amazing thing about Montessori, is that, the more we’re learning about brain development, the more science and research advance our knowledge, the more this pedagogy is being affirmed. What we’ve known anecdotally now →
Spotlight Greenspring Montessori School
July 12, 2018Elliot Dickson is an adolescent guide at Greenspring Montessori School. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I grew up in New England and have been →
The Montessori Three-Hour Work Cycle
July 9, 2018“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 →
Montessori Summer — Time
July 5, 2018This summer, we’re podcasting and writing about aspects of the Montessori classroom that beautifully translate into the home environment, ways to incorporate Montessori at home, in little or big ways. These are intended to be →
I’m Bored
July 2, 2018It’s summer. Even when we love school (which we absolutely do!), summer still has this magical appeal. Maybe it’s the long days, maybe it’s the sunshine, maybe it’s sandals and swimming and sand, but it →
Spotlight Montessori on Mars
June 28, 2018Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Until a few years ago, I’ve lived near a street called Montessori Lane (Manila, Philippines), where a huge Montessori →
The Worry
June 25, 2018If parenting had a job description, “worrying” would probably top the list. From worrying about the what-ifs to wondering every three minutes if a child is still breathing (yes, they are. How about now? Phew.) →
Montessori Summer — Space
June 21, 2018This summer, we’re reminded that Montessori lives outside the walls of the classroom, Montessori is a philosophy, Montessori is a lifestyle. We’re highlighting one way each episode of the podcast (did you know we have →
Spontaneous Kindness
June 18, 2018We want children to be kind. It’s behind all our attempts to have children apologize, or adult-directed sharing. We want our children to exhibit empathy, to be Woke, to see Self in the Other -- →
Spotlight Little Hands Montessori
June 14, 2018Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I am originally from Philippines and have a background in Psychology, and after finishing my 0-3 AMI Montessori Diploma →
This is a test
June 11, 2018In the Montessori primary classroom, we approach literacy differently than one might expect. We write before we read. Writing is a natural next step from speaking. We highlight the sounds in words, and the Sandpaper →
Montessori Isn’t Just School
June 7, 2018Attending a Montessori school isn’t always an option. There are many reasons families know about Montessori, but their child isn’t enrolled in a school. Sometimes there isn’t a school in the area, or it’s fully →
Homework for Vacation
June 4, 2018It’s that time of year. We’re planning how we’ll spend these three hot months. Long days, longer car rides, and the shortest season of the year, it seems. It’s natural to want to ensure children →
Spotlight Maren Schmidt
May 31, 2018Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? Today I live on the Big Island of Hawaii with my husband, Mark. I have two adult daughters, Dana, →
Some Words of Advice to Teachers, 1924 – Maria Montessori
May 28, 2018In this short, little known, but highly influential and impactful text, Maria Montessori lays out some words of advice for teachers: "Anticipating some of the questions which will certainly be put to me, I shall →
No Bad Days
May 24, 2018“How was your day?” It’s such a common question. It’s perhaps the most timeless of questions, and one we ask of children and partners and anyone we care about. It’s a love question, what happened →
I Must Mean What I Say
May 21, 2018We talk a lot. We say a lot of words, some of them empty and some of them dramatic, some of them casual and some of them heartrending. As adults, we’ve learned to hear the →
Spotlight Maryse Cohen
May 17, 2018Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Your background, your interests, your dreams? I’m currently living above the Arctic Circle in the small Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Nunavut is →
