Montessori Bead Chain
The Bead Cabinet is the stuff of magic. When a student first walks into the Montessori classroom, takes a deep breath and surveys the room, they are instantly drawn towards the beauty, simplicity and elegance →
Montessori Academy at Belmont Greene
We are so very pleased to Spotlight Bart Theriot. If ever there was a great story to tell about Montessori, it would start here. We've known Bart through our involvement with the Montessori Madmen for →
The Empathetic Classroom
In our fifth podcast, The Empathetic Classroom, Bobby George and Charlotte Wood discuss the role "community" plays in Montessori. By "community", of course, they mean many different things. With that said, the discussion centers around →
A New Type of Teacher
We've had as many laughs, as we have had serious conversations, on just how precisely Montessori describes the ideal teacher, the ones who will herald the movement in education that she so passionately, wholeheartedly envisioned →
Montessori Lab School
In this spotlight, we're extremely pleased to feature The Montessori Lab School at Grand Center, which aims to provide an authentic Montessori education, in the heart of Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. Annette Haines, who has →
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 →
Fostering Learning
While Montessori and Froebel share a number of common traits, in particular, their emphasis on the individual needs of each and every child, they radically differ on a wide range of issues. In this podcast, →
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 →
New Website
It’s been just over two years since we last updated our website. For us, that’s an extremely long period of time. In terms of the internet, that’s a lifetime. By updated, of course, we mean →
Happy Anniversary
Dear Maria Montessori, It’s so hard to believe, but today marks the one hundred and eighth year since you opened the first Casa Dei Bambini, in Rome, Italy. So much has changed since that initial →
The Formation of Language
In Episode 3: The Formation of Language, Bobby George and Charlotte Wood record a podcast to discuss their own reflections on the development of language with young children, especially within the context of the Montessori →
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, →
Fruits of Study
In a wonderfully titled book, What you Should Know About Your Child, Maria Montessori makes a powerful statement in an article entitled, 'The First Three Years of Life': “If we consider the transformations, adaptations, achievements and →
Language and Literacy in Montessori
In the first of a new video series, we sit down with Ms. Charlotte Wood, a primary Montessori guide, to discuss language and literacy in Montessori. Ms. Wood walks us through some helpful examples of →
The Acquisition of Language
“The child bathes in language.” - Delacroix The acquisition of language is the stuff of magic. It seemingly just happens. One day the child ‘babbles’, as if unable to articulate any words, let alone an →
