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…
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10 Ideas for Motivating Your Montessori Reader This Summer
Summertime is almost in full swing at Chesapeake Montessori School, that sweet season when school is done, the sun is out, and fun is the most important agenda of the day. While it’s important for students to take a break from the business of the school year, it’s also the best time for parents to…
Special Needs and the Montessori Child: Thinking, Learning, and Playing Outside the Box
Follow the child, don’t force them to follow you. A Montessori education is founded on each student’s uniqueness, a key ingredient that inspires children to be their own best advocates, motivators, and teachers in the classroom. This is especially true for our youngest special needs students, many of whom don’t adhere to the prescriptive rules,…
A Royal Education: 5 Skills Prince George Will Learn in Montessori School This Year
Although we’re an ocean and several time zones away, it’s impossible to walk past a magazine rack here in America without spotting the youngest male member of the British Royal Family on the cover of a magazine. The esteemed Prince George of Cambridge is the third in line to succeed his paternal great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth,…
