Two beloved assistants headed off to Montessori training this summer!

Kisha and Shelby, long time assistants in the Toddler and Infant Communities, respectively, are headed to Denver this week. There, they will both begin their AMI Assistants to Infancy training at The Montessori Institute Denver. More information about AMI, or Association Montessori International, our governing body, can be found here. We wish them both the…

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Why “Should” is the New 4-Letter Word in Parenting

Posted with permission from Jennifer Denzel, author of this article, parent of two Bergamo students, and Gentle Sleep Coach. If I had a dollar for every time I have heard a parent say, “I know I should be doing _________”, my children’s college education would be paid for! There seems to be a trend among…

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“You can do hard things.”

“There’s something I have said so often to my children that now they chant it back to me: “You can do hard things.” I sent my kids to a Montessori preschool, and thank heavens I did, because most of what I learned about parenting came from those wonderful Montessori teachers. They straightened me out about…

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Only in a Montessori Classroom

by Peter Davidson, reposted from MariaMontessori.com I recently visited a Montessori school in Arizona and had the opportunity to observe in the toddler classroom. On this particular morning there were eight children present, the youngest being 18 months of age and the oldest close to 30 months. It was toward the end of the morning,…

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What You Need to Know About Montessori and Play

David Ayer • The Montessori Observer (reposted from MariaMontessori.com) Dr. Angeline Lillard, professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, author of Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius, as well as several academic articles on Montessori, and Montessori speaker and advocate, has a new article in the American Journal of Play: Playful Learning and Montessori…

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