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Infant Toddler Nutrition: Aiden Ate Cucumbers At Snack Time

By Jan Katzen Luchenta | Sep 24, 2021

Aiden ate cucumbers at snack time with me today! The cool crispiness, color, texture, who knows? Or was it because he helped peel them, cut them up, and then sat with me while I savored mine? Whatever this celebration is it's certainly the next step in his food exploration and acceptance of a variety of foods. This little two-year-old boy who still breast feeds began the school year in late August without a lot of hope in his lunch box for a balanced nutritional transition into solid foods....

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Peace and Punishment

By Matthew Rich | Sep 23, 2021

An article on Discipline without Violence There are many instances in Dr. Montessori's work where she explains why she “eventually…gave up either punishing or rewarding the children”.(1) She explains that this method is “always a form of repression”(2), and is based upon our – in her opinion tragically erroneous – belief that children “come into the world bad and full of naughtiness.”(3) She found, after careful observation, that both punishment and reward were equally ineffective tools for...

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Common Sense Leadership

By Brenda Bernstorf | Sep 19, 2021

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?

By The Montessori Foundation Staff | Sep 15, 2021

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 The Montessori Foundation Staff | Sep 13, 2021

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

By Tim Seldin | Sep 11, 2021

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

By IMC | Sep 3, 2021

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

By Lorna McGrath | Aug 19, 2021

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

By Lorna McGrath | Mar 15, 2021

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

By Bridgett Wheeler | Mar 15, 2021

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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