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Maximizing The ROI Of Your Staff’s Time

Maximizing The ROI Of Your Staff’s Time

by | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Montessori Teachers, Research, The International Montessori Council

Going Digital I became the new Head of School at Montessori School of Fort Myers in September 2013 with the intention of heeding the sage advice given to me: spend the first two weeks simply observing; don’t try to change anything yet. And so, I did. I took these first few weeks to observe the […]

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Montessori and Advocacy

by | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Montessori Leadership Magazine Online Issue, The International Montessori Council, Uncategorized

ost of us are so busy ‘doing’ Montessori that it feels impossible to ‘support’ Montessori. Unless our classroom, or our school, is directly and significantly impacted by a regulation or policy, we figure we can make the best of it and just get by. We make compromises, we adjust, we believe there is nothing to […]

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Some Thoughts on Staff Interactions

Some Thoughts on Staff Interactions

by | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, The International Montessori Council

t The Montessori Foundation, we regularly receive queries regarding policies for relationships between staff and parents. Many school heads express concerns over issues ranging from staff being “friends” with parents on Facebook, to babysitting for school families, to … in some cases, actual romantic involvements. The issues span those which are merely internal or personal […]

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Nurturing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” — Parenting adage

Nurturing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” — Parenting adage

by | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, The International Montessori Council

inancial security is one of the long-term goals parents wish for their children. Being financially secure has connotations of knowing how to make money, how to save money, and how to use money to help others. Financially secure suggests that we have a realistic expectation about the amount of work it takes to make a […]

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Evaluating & Reporting on Student Progress in a Montessori School

by | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Montessori Administrators, The International Montessori Council

“Here is the essential principle of education: to teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.”— Maria Montessori, Childhood to Adolescence he Montessori curriculum is carefully structured and sequenced, and teachers maintain careful records of each child’s progress. Because Montessori Schools do not compare students against arbitrary […]

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