As Maria Montessori knew to be true, an early mastery of language is the basis of all academic success. Understanding how to form, speak, write with, and use the correct words in context so often determines the way students move about not only their school days but their entire academic careers. While the preschool and elementary…
Montessori Approach
Conflict in the Classroom: Respect and Resolution in Montessori School
This year, one in four students headed back to school and will face what no child – or parent – wants to face: a bully that doesn’t back down. In addition to anxiety surrounding school, bullied students are most likely to experience a range of academic and psychological effects outside of the classroom too, including…
Deconstructing Cosmic Education in the Montessori Classroom
Of all the topics I talk to new and visiting parents about, the one that garners the most eyebrow raises is, by far, cosmic education. Is it a religious doctrine? A new age mindset for the next generation? Something to do with astrology? Cosmic education is none of these things. Rather, cosmic education is the…
The Four Parents You Meet in Montessori School (And How We Communicate With Them)
Note: Shanna Honan is the Head of School at Chesapeake Montessori School where she directs school curriculum, administration, and teacher training in the Montessori tradition. In this post, Shanna is sharing a version of the presentation, “Parent Communication Made Easy: How to Build Rapport and Maintain Lasting Relationships with Parents” that she and teacher Betsy…
