If you are not able to view this newsletter in your email, please click here to view IMC-ENEWS online.

   
 

Welcome to the enewsletter of the International Montessori Council and its sponsor, the Montessori Foundation.

This newsletter is published to provide you with timely information, insights, and fresh perspectives on Montessori Leadership around the world.

If you have any feedback regarding this newsletter, technical questions, or would like to submit a story or event information for the newsletter, please send it to enews@montessori.org.

We send this free newsletter out every few weeks, and we hope you find it useful. Please feel free to forward it to your friends and colleagues, or let them know that they can sign up at to receive it themselves by going to www.montessori.org/enews.

For more information about the Montessori Foundation or the International Montessori Council, please visit www.Montessori.org, or call 941-379-6626.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
IMC - We're Here to Help!
 
 

Notes and images from our first conference on Montessori Education and The Partnership Way

[ Read Full Article ]

[Download Order Form For Conference Recordings]


 

6-Friends

The response to 6-Friends has been wonderful, coming in from Montessori schools around the world. Information about the World Council of Elders project. 6-Friends is an important new opportunity for Montessori children around the world to forge life-long friends,become community leaders, and build a global community one "village" at a time.

[ Read Full Article ]


 

 

Preview of Chapter 1

An Answer to the Crisis in Education
Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

By Dr. Angeline Stoll Lillard

[ Read Full Article ]


 

Building Enrollment

Because a Montessori Child Can Never Be Replaced — Tomorrow's Child!


Tomorrow's Child is the journal for the parents of Montessori children from infants through high school. Hundreds of Montessori schools around the world depend on it to help to orient and educate new families, while addressing the fears and concerns that so many parents of older children share. Let us help you to convince your families that Montessori works!

.
[ Read Full Article ]


 
 

Montessori School Leadership


Designing A Summer Program For Your School

For some years we have offered a Montessori Leadership Institute on How to Organize a Summer Program for your school. For this issue, we decided to share an online version of the work-text that is used in that course.

[ Download the Ebook ]


 
 

The first 'secure' online Montessori Leadership Council (our professional growth and support networks) mentored by The Montessori Foundation

We are looking for members who would be interested in pilot testing this new IMC Project. There is no cost, other than a commitment of time and honest and open communication.

[Click here for more information]


 

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again!

Tomorrow's Child and Montessori Life Run Same Photo on Cover in Winter Issue

A letter from Joyce St. Giermaine, Editor of Tomorrow's Child

[ Read Letter ]


 

A Spectrum of Alternatives

AERO Conference Featuring a Thorough Mix of Montessori and Other Educational Alternatives.

This June, the Montessori Foundation will be a sponsor of the Alternative Education Resource Organization's 2005 Conference: "A Spectrum of Alternatives." June 22-26 at Russell Sage College.


[ Read Full Article ]


 

Institutional Development


How to Approach a Foundation For The First Time


[ Read Full Article ]


 

Educational Program


Hand-Made Card Materials Or Hands-On Learning?


[ Read Full Article ]


 

Teaching Peace

The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization whose vision is a world where all people are getting their needs met and resolving their conflicts peacefully.


[ Read Full Article ]


 

News and Announcements

AMS and NCME Announce Strategic Alliance

Terra Linda School Children Celebrate Peacemakers

The Soul of Education: Connection, Compassion, and Character in Learning

Study Links Mercury From Power Plants To Autism

Is High School as Bad as All That?

Montessori Association of New Zealand to Offer Workshops on collaborative Montessori Cultures

Projet Montessori Afrique

Running With the Bulls At The Annual Nienhuis Montessori-USA Tent Sale

Montessori high school students at School of the Woods in Houston, Texas show mastery of subject by teaching it with style to classmates

 

[ Read Full Article ]


 

Unconditional Parenting

Alfie Kohn announces a new book.

[Read Full Article ]


 

Next year Tomorrow's Child will once again feature the most popular themes that we have ever addressed:

Montessori 101 in the Back To School 2005 issue that will come out in September, and

A Guided Tour of a Montessori Classroom in the Fall 2005 issue that comes out in November.

Place Your Bulk Order


 

2005 Summer Montessori Leadership Institute

• Building a World-Class Montessori School — July11-15

• Master Teachers – Model Programs: July 18—22

• Finding The Perfect Match—How To Recruit And Retain Your Ideal Enrollment: July 25—29

[ Read Full Article ]


 

Resources

Teaching Philosophy in the Montessori Class

Kaleidoscope Songs

Lots to Learn: Nature Video

The Children's Awareness Curriculum

Montessori Home

Timeline Cards

Inventors and Inventions

Digital History

Isabel Of The Whales

[Read Full Article ]

 

Tomorrow's Child Readers Survey

Give Us Your Insights By Taking The 2005 Tomorrow's Child Magazine Readers Survey

[Read Full Article ]


 

We Need Your Support, Now More Than Ever, For the Montessori Foundation Fund

2005 Major Projects:

A Center for Montessori Research

A Coordinated Public Relations and Advocacy Campaign to Promote Montessori At the Local & State Levels

Click Here To Learn More

 

 

The Online Directory of Montessori Schools

How To Update and Expand Your School's Information In Our Online Directory

Click Here for More Information


 

Give Gifts of Peace

Order Peace Education Resources and presents for your friends or your classrooms from the Peace Company.

Click Here To Learn More


 

ARTICLES

SAMPLE FORMS

DOCUMENTS

IMC Members Resource Library:

User Name and Password

[Click Here To Read Article]

 
 

STAFF NEEDED

Montessori Positions Available

[Click Here To See Ads]


 

 

Calendar of Upcoming Events

    Tomorrow's Child Go Montessori

 
    Nienhuis Maxamec