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Blueprints: The Future of Education
A Project from some very cool people that needs a little support to get off the ground. Here is the summary from the Kickstarter page Our goal is simple. We want to create a series of high quality and...
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Building the Pink Tower
“Building the Pink Tower is a feature-length documentary film that opens our eyes to what Montessori education means today. With the help of educators, neuroscientists, families, and children, it...
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Montessori Activism: Advocating for others
In a previous post I defined social activism and listed several significant activism movements. Most activism movements are begun and are driven by a group or class of people advocating for their own...
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Project Gutenberg
Free digital copies of selected Dr. Montessori’s books are available online at Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books,...
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Letter Work & Number Work
I am reposting an e-mail sent by June Books Dear Friends, On Saturday, July 28th, Montessori Letter Work & Number Work, were featured in the Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal. The...
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4,962,571
4,962,571 is launched! You can order it now. It is my great pleasure to announce the release of 4,962,571, the first of a series of Montessori-inspired children’s picture books. This series is a...
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Montessori in Milwaukee
Can Montessori shift save Milwaukee Public Schools? Follow this link to an article from the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel Online edition June 16, 2012, written by Alan J Borsuk.
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Cheryl Ferreira – a story of commitment
This news article about Cheryl Ferreira demonstrates her impressive dedication to support AMI Training Centers. Here is a bit to get you started… In the good old days, there were examiners coming from...
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World’s Largest School is a Montessori School
City Montessori School Lucknow, India 39, 437 pupils 2500 teachers read more here
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Qwerty moveable alphabet?
The letters in commercially available large moveable alphabets are generally organized by letter size. Small moveable alphabets however, are often arranged alphabetically. An alphabetical arrangement...
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An Analogy
Guiding is to Psychology as Improvisation is to Acting Guiding (or teaching) requires one to assess how the mental state and needs of an individual interact with the present circumstances and...
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Primal Leadership
I recently read Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee and found it has profound applications in the preparation of the...
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Researching excellence
“a significant part of the competence research base we rely on stems from a then-radical proposal made back in 1973 by the late Harvard professor David McClelland. Writing in the flagship psychology...
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Science and Art
I spent my undergraduate years studying visual arts and socializing with students of science. Understandably I spent many a late night discussing the differences (and similarities) between science and...
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Building the Pink Tower
We are all asked, at some point or another, what we do for a living. Its a fairly innocuous question, generally asked at a cocktail party, or by the person you’re seated next to on an airplane. In the...
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an outside-in environment
In thinking about how to improve the indoor outdoor flow of an environment I have begun to consider many other aspects of the prepared environment. On the one hand I really enjoy an environment that...
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Observations about and with Goggle Glass
I have long been interested in how we learn (to be fair, it is that interest that led me to Montessori ) and I find that a strong model can be a great learning tool. A model is not the same as a...
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A Montessori MBA
” Starbucks recently announced that it will offer hourly employees discounted tuition in their first two years of study, and pay the entire tuition for junior and senior years if a worker goes on to...
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Can Science Heal the Montessori Movement?
From time to time I contemplate the Montessori alphabet soup (AMI, AMS, IAPM, MEPI, IMC, NAMC, etc…) and I imagine how much better the lives of children, and eventually all humankind, might be if the...
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A Measurement Tool
In a previous post I made the assertion that “Science can heal the Montessori movement if we are willing to do the research.” After such a bold statement it would be reasonable to ask “Well then, what...
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