The Montessori Way

Parents of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in San Francisco hear the “why?” questions start early, and the bigger challenge is keeping that spark alive once schedules, screens, and preschool pressure creep in. Many families feel torn between wanting to follow a...

The hardest parenting moments — your toddler dissolving into a heap on the kitchen floor, your preschooler swiping a toy from a sibling, your infant screaming at the worst possible time — are not failures of your child's character. They're windows into a developing...

There's a quiet shift happening in education right now. A recent article in Education Week describes a growing movement to bring play back into kindergarten classrooms. After years of pushing academics earlier and earlier — more worksheets, more testing, more...

The Prepared Environment at Home In Montessori circles, you'll often hear about the “prepared environment at home". It sounds simple enough, perhaps a bit vague at first. However, when you pay close attention to how children experience their surroundings, like with...

A Reflection on the Crisis in Early Childhood Education Recently, the Hechinger Report published an article on child care centers that employ retirees to fill child care staff positions where there are few applicants.” There is something deeply human and hopeful in...

Leadership transitions have been defining moments in the life of every organization since the beginning of our species. For the purposes of this essay, I would like to explore the implications of that observation for educational institutions, particularly in...

Every parent wants to raise a child who is not only intelligent but also emotionally resilient and truly at peace with themselves. Yet, as classrooms around the world become more pressurized and competitive, anxiety, depression, and burnout are showing up earlier than...