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by Lorna McGrath | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Book Reviews, Mixed Ages, Montessori Education, The International Montessori Council, Upper Elementary (9-12)
Thank you, Larry and Pat, for documenting with such love and detail the history and process of the creation of Lake Country School. What an amazing and inspiring story for all of us who aspire to create a school from scratch or to further develop an already existing school! Lake Country School in Minneapolis, Minnesota […]
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by Erica Blanco | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Communication, Kindergarten, Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), Mixed Ages, Montessori Education, The International Montessori Council, Writing
Poetry is art without a paint brush and clay; poetry teaches you to paint with and mold words until you have created something beautiful. It doesn’t need to make sense or follow correct writing etiquette like every other type of writing. There are no rules or boundaries. It is a way to express thoughts and […]
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by James Farwell | 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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by Punum Bhatia Ph.D | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Maria Montessori, Mixed Ages, Peace Education, The International Montessori Council
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time and one of the biggest challenges facing the international community today. Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town alerts us to this fact: “Climate change is the greatest human-induced crisis facing the world today. It is totally indiscriminate of […]
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by Christine Lowry | 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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by Brenda Bernstorf | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Leadership Magazine Online Issue, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Uncategorized
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by Sharon Caldwell | 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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by Maren Stark Schmidt | 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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by Amina Elshishini | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Brain Development, Language, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, Montessori students, Psychology, The International Montessori Council
n many countries bilingualism is a steadily growing phenomenon that shapes and affects the learning process of children at homes and schools. The most popular second languages in Egypt are English, French, and German. Many parents prefer their children to be schooled in a foreign language rather than their native mother tongue. Being fully bilingual […]
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by Sharon Caldwell | 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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by Meg Caldwell | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Children with Exceptionalities, Montessori Education, Montessori students, Montessori Teachers, Psychology, The International Montessori Council
Children’s Meeting House Montessori School re we seeing more learning differences in children? This is a question that teachers have repeatedly asked me. They are seeing students who struggle with concentration issues, processing information, an inability to follow multiple-step procedures or directions, sensory challenges, and an inability to capture thoughts on paper. And more importantly, […]
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by The Montessori Foundation Staff | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council
As members of the IMC we hope that you have had the privilege and opportunity to attend one or more of our events. This past year we coordinated two amazing conferences: Hong Kong and Sarasota, Florida. The Global Citizen Our October 7 & 8th event in Hong Kong at...
by IMC | Archived Issues / Montessori Leadership, Montessori Leadership Magazine Online Issue, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council
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