June 2018
7 Key Phrases Montessori Teachers Use and Why We Should Use Them, Too
By Christina Clemer Montessori can be hard to sum up in just a few words —it is a philosophy on education and child development that runs deep. It’s a way of seeing the world. I [...]
April 2018
Nation’s First Center Dedicated to Montessori Education Research
Photo by Laura Kingston Conference participants get a hands-on example of Montessori education in action at the 2017 National Council on Measurement in Education at KU. (Those are Kathy Klocke’s hands and Dayle’s bowl!) LAWRENCE [...]
March 2018
Guns vs. Children
It makes me angry that I live in a country where some people love their guns more than they love their children. The massacre of seventeen innocent children and teachers in Parkland, Florida has sparked [...]
February 2018
Barbara Kingsolver On Montessori: “You Can Do Hard Things”
Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Flight Behavior, among many others) does a wide-ranging interview in Sun Magazine touching on writing, climate change, food, and more. The interviewer asks about perseverance: How do you nurture people [...]
January 2018
The Fear Factor
We were lucky. When Heather and Saasha were small, we didn’t have time to worry. Oh, we had the usual clash with grandparents over parenting issues such as not potty-training them before they were 12 [...]
October 2017
Encouragement for Jackson Bezzant: Don’t let bullies define you
By Leonard Pitts, Jr. Dear Jackson Bezzant: Hi, my name is Leonard. I read your dad's Facebook post about you and wanted to share some thoughts. When I was your age, I was a shy, skinny kid with [...]