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Why Child Care Is So Expensive — and Why It’s Worth the Investment
1907-2026 Welcome to the 120th Montessori School Year! Last year, Jordan McGillis published an article in The Washington Post on August 18, 2025, titled “Why child care costs so much — and how to fix it”. It raised important points about the rising cost of...
A Conversation with alfie kohn about progressive schools
Why is it so hard to find a progressive school these days? The Education We Know Is Possible There is something both encouraging and slightly melancholy about sitting down with Alfie Kohn to discuss progressive education. Encouraging because his thinking...
A New family onboarding Playbook expanded
A Complete Guide from First Contact to Lasting Partnership INTRODUCTION Rethinking the Onboarding Journey The ninety-day sequence at the heart of this playbook is among the most effective tools a school can deploy to welcome and retain new...
Why Every independent school should Periodically conduct a market study
Most independent schools discover that the world around them changes faster than their assumptions do. Families change. Neighborhoods change. Birth rates shift. Public schools change. Charter schools, magnet programs, homeschool networks, microschools, online...
The Children’s House – A Community of Connection and Self-Discovery
I recently read a thoughtful essay by my friend and colleague, Tammy Oesting, titled "What Have We Lost?" In it, Tammy reflects on stories from the early Montessori movement and asks whether, somewhere along the way, we may have unintentionally left behind some of the...
Strategic Planning Through a Montessori Lens
A Strategic Marketing Guide for Montessori Schools
A White Paper from the Montessori Foundation What Parents Are Really Buying A Strategic Marketing Guide for Montessori Schools There is a quiet revolution happening in how the most successful independent schools market themselves. The old approach — listing...
How Boredom Can Be One of the Most Valuable Experiences for Kids
A kid sitting down, saying, “I'm bored,” is one of the most common things parents hear time and time again. Many parents find themselves pressured to provide some sort of response. That might take the form of a suggestion, an activity, or a distraction. There...
Montessori Through a Parent’s Eyes: What Families Don’t Understand Yet
This article is part of an ongoing series from the Montessori Foundation exploring how schools can attract, enroll, and retain families who truly value Montessori education. Through the Montessori Foundation's Enrollment Accelerator Program, schools receive strategic...
Parent ambassador programs
This article is part of an ongoing series from the Montessori Foundation exploring how schools can attract, enroll, and retain families who truly value Montessori education. Through the Montessori Foundation's Enrollment Accelerator Program, schools receive strategic...
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Who’s Actually Teaching Your Kid (And No, They’re Not “Off All Summer”)
Let's clear up a rumor that's been going around every school parking lot since roughly 1907: your child's guide does not spend June through August at the beach reading novels and forgetting your child's name exists. Here's what's actually going on. First, they're...
Before the First Day: What School Leaders Can Do to Build a Culture of Trust with Families
Teachers build trust with parents one relationship at a time. But whether that trust-building happens at all, and whether it happens consistently across every classroom in the building, depends on leadership. A single warm, proactive teacher can transform one family's...
The Montessori Map: From the Infant Room to Graduation
If you're new to this world, here's a secret nobody tells you at orientation: there is no such thing as "Montessori school." There are at least five of them, stacked on top of each other like a very calm, very beige layer cake, and your child is...
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