Features & Reporting

By Carol Guy-James Barratt Thanks to the magnanimous effort of the Peter Hesse Foundation, teachers now have the opportunity to train in real classrooms and not in tents and makeshift conditions as they have been doing since the 2010 earthquake. Classes for student teachers will be held in a new training center “Centre Montessori d’Haiti”Read More

Region I: México The Montessori community in Mexico hosts many conferences, workshops and gatherings throughout the year. Here is some information sent by readers.   AMMEAC The Asociación Montessori Mexicana, A.C. will gather for its XXIII Congreso 2013 May 3-6 in Toluca, Estado de México. The theme is “Freedom: The Vital Principle in Education.” Contact:Read More

In the last issue, we asked teachers to comment on the Common Core State Standards. We didn’t get any comments, but we got word of this initiative from Anthony Pirrello. “We believe there is a way to maintain the integrity of Dr. Montessori’s work and achieve AYP on our State Assessments.” With those words, PirrelloRead More

The American Montessori Society awarded three prizes for outstanding Master’s theses at its annual conference in Orlando, FL: Children’s Effortful Control in a Montessori Classroom: Effects of Parenting and Purposeful Work by Judy Blahut, University of Arkansas. Place Attachment: Grade 2 Students’ Special Places at Their Schools by Katrina Mosscrop of University of British Columbia.Read More

A charter management organization (CMO) for Montessori schools, with representatives from both the Association Montessori International-USA and the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS), an affiliate of the American Montessori Society, was announced in the March newsletter of the North American Montessori Teachers Assn. The announcement does not detail how any differencesRead More

By Laureen Golden Might the unprecedented collaborative commitment of Montessorians throughout the nation signal the birth of the “Montessori Community-as-an-organism?” My consideration of the “birth of the Montessori-Community-as-an-organism” began recently, while rereading EDUCATION AND PEACE, and reflecting on Dr. Montessori’s concept of “humanity as an organism,” her belief that “mankind must organize.” and her notionRead More

by Thomas M. Johanson Many heroes have been revealed during the recent murderous school killings. The thing I’d liked to say is that there have been heroes in our schools as long as they’ve stood. The heroes are the teachers and staff who keeping coming to work every day, every week, every year, every decade.Read More

Robert Charron, the spouse of the program director, entered the Racines De Vie Montessori in  Gatineau,  Quebec, Canada, on April 5 and killed French citizen Neil Galliou, 38,  in front of  many of the school’s 53 cihildren before turning his shotgun on himself. Before killing  himself,  he  attempted to start a fire, believed to beRead More

By John Moncure The Montessori Educational Professionals International crafted his statement before its annual meeting in South Carolina in March. International, being committed to its part in bringing peace to the world through Montessori education, deplores recent acts of senseless violence against all people, particularly children, and especially in schools. Citizens in all countries, butRead More