The Baan Dek Montessori is proud to attend and participate in the OTA Sessions. Do you know the OTA Sessions? “They were born out of a desire to see the Midwest shine as hub of creativity and innovation, and our purpose and motivation have only grown stronger each year.” Indeed, this years lineup of speakers […]
A few months ago, we announced that we would be partnering up with a “sister Montessori school” in Massachuttes, named The Riverbend Montessori School. Collectively, we decided that it would be a unique opportunity to share our different cultures, and allow our students the opportunity to share their favorite books, thoughts and dreams, with peers across […]
Control of Error, the ability to recognize and then correct your own mistakes, without having an external person let you know if you did the activity “right or wrong”, is a mainstay of the Montessori approach to education. In this short video, our yet to be three-year-old student engages with the cylinder blocks. Notice how […]
You’ve probably already seen this poem. Some of you might have even read it multiple times. It’s worth reading again, until you feel sufficiently inspired, to read it once more. The rhythm, the flow, the…hope you enjoy! “If I had my child to raise all over again, I’d build her self-esteem first, and the house […]
Before we opened our school, over five years ago now, we spent a lot of time thinking about our mission at Baan Dek. We came up with a number of different phrases, and taglines, but none of them seemed to capture what we were after, until… We finally arrived at the statement, “Independence to Learn. […]