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Common Sense Leadership

by Brenda Bernstorf Leadership is often a matter of common sense but as Voltaire is attributed for saying, “Common sense is not so common.” Montessori classrooms are gentle, peaceful environments where grace and courtesy are normal. Grace and courtesy are the foundation for common sense leadership and must extend from the administrative office to the classroom teachers to encourage employee engagement. Engaged employees contribute extraordinary gifts to the organization, are satisfied with...

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Peace Education. Is it a curriculum?

Thoughts about peace education within our schools by Ann Mason As the new millennium unfolds we have made promises of hope and peace to ourselves and our children. The United Nations has declared a decade of peace and non-violence for children and we as educators aspire to developing a peace culture within our teaching and learning environments. As we decide together as teachers, educators and even as parents the essential understandings upon which to base the programs we undertake in our...

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New Directions for Montessori Secondary Education

by Jamie Wheal "Schools as they are today are adapted neither to the needs of adolescence nor to the times in which we live." --Maria Montessori “College admissions, wrote psychologist Michael Thompson in a recent essay on the subject, “can make normal people act nutty and nutty people act quite crazy.” The pressures of this “failed rite of passage” as he put it, can drive even the most confident teens and their families into a hyper-competitive tailspin that completely clouds the last two...

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Sample Blueprint of a Montessori School’s Core Values

The Sample Montessori School A Blueprint of Our Fundamental Values and Beliefs Our Vision  Our broadest vision is of a world that lives in peace, a world community based on interdependence and respect for all life and all people. Our vision for our school is a Montessori school community of supportive parents, dedicated teachers and staff, and joyful learners.  Our Mission  The Mission of the Sample Montessori School is To inspire a passion for excellence To nurture the curiosity,...

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The IMC Seal of Recognition

Download PDF FileThe IMC Seal of Recognition The purpose of the International Montessori Council Seal of Recognition Program is to offer schools a reasonably simple and inexpensive method of providing prospective parents and the general public with assurance that they offer educational programs that are effective and consistent with the essential characteristics of Montessori best practice at each age level offered. In addition, these schools follow the Code of Ethics of the International...

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Book Review: Kindness

Kindness By Jonathan Wolff Kindness is one in a series of resource and activity books for parents and teachers of children ages three to nine years old. This series was inspired by and developed as an extension of “The Virtues Project.” The author, Jon Wolff, well-known in the Montessori community around the world, wondered how could parents and teachers explore virtues or universal qualities of character in fun, interactive, and imaginative ways with children.  The series that he put...

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The Wonder of Woodworking

Especially since many schools have been forced online by Covid, we have received some letters from parents asking this question: What should we do if our child doesn’t like or bond with her teacher (in person or online)? In a normal year, our advice would typically be to first go to the teacher and try to have an honest conversation directly as adults.

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Teach Your Children Well

Montessori inspires children towards academic excellence and nurtures the creativity, curiosity, and imagination hidden within ... For many, paying tuition for private Montessori can be a struggle that demands certain sacrifices. Is it worth it? One parent discusses why she thinks so.  arentsou're driving through a fancy-pants neaighborhood daydreaming about kitchen upgrades and you hear it: that alluring little voice that reminds you that you, too, could have quartz...

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Submitting an Article to Tomorrow’s Child

e are grateful to all who wish to contribute an article or photo essay to share with the readers of Tomorrow’s Child magazine. Over the years we’ve been asked many questions regarding format, length, usage, etc so we’ve put together this checklist to help the novice writer through the process. Articles should be in a word document program or directly into an email where it can easily be extracted. (PDFs do not work as we are unable to format into our graphic design...

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What is the Montessori Method?

n this interview, with Kelly Krueger Thomas, Host and Founder of Ingeniousbaby.com, Tim Seldin, NewGate Head of School, President of the Montessori Foundation and Chair of the International Montessori Council (IMC), shares what we can all learn from the Montessori approach and its nurturing of creativity and inventiveness. Montessori school alumni include Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, not to mention...

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