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Video Interview with Soon-to-Be Montessori Grads

Video Interview with Soon-to-Be Montessori Grads

This is a video interview with six soon-to-be Montessori grads from NewGate School. Join us for their thoughts on Montessori life and the world beyond.

The Lessons In Practical Life Skills

The Lessons In Practical Life Skills

“For all the money that we spend on tuition, why does my child spend his day washing tables?” here is this wonderful photograph from the early years of this last century that captured a small child in a Montessori school carefully ladling soup into bowls for his fellow students’ lunch. I’m sure that his parents […]

What Outcomes Can We Look for from Montessori?

What Outcomes Can We Look for from Montessori?

here are eight primary aspects to what we normally look for in children who have grown up with a Montessori education: Academic Preparation: Montessori prepares students both for higher education and for life. On an academic level, Montessori helps students attain skills that allow them to become independently functioning adults and life-long learners.Intrinsic Motivation: Innate […]

The Referral

The Referral

t was her second visit in a week. Mrs. Jones described her son as kind and gentle, a truly sweet child, but retiring, even cautious. “Would Post Oak admit him as a five-year-old?” We would consider it.Though we ordinarily admit children at three or younger, some older children do enter successfully. Until now he has […]

A Letter from a Montessori Child to Start the School Year

Dear Mom or Dad, s you know I’ll be starting school again real soon, and I can’t wait. I overheard you the other day saying to your friend that you can’t wait for school to start too. I’m glad you’re as excited as I am! It’s going to be a great school year, I can […]