Recently added articles from Montessori Life:
Montessori Education and Social Responsibility: Imagining Our Future
Jul 01, 2008; Ungerer, Richard A ... I've seen that there is no more powerful way to initiate significant change . . . [than through] a community discovering what it cares about. - Margaret J. Wheatley, writer and management consultant We would literally astound ourselves if we did everything we are capable of ...
CORRECTION
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Editors' Note: The first three sentences of the article "Montessori Secondary Schools: Preparing Today's Adolescents for the Challenges of Tomorrow" (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2007) were not ...
Social Justice: A Perspective
Jul 01, 2008; Stewart, Marilyn E ... Recently, I had the pleasure of having dinner and conversation with Lakshmi Kripalani, accom- plished Montessori educator and octogenarian. Lakshmi, against the wishes of her parents, founded the New India School in Karachi (now Pakistan, but at that time part of India) in 1943, to protest the ...
Our Time
Jul 01, 2008; Carey, Kathy ... You may be familiar with the 70s British rock band Queen; I was not until recently when I paid closer attention to an ad on television. I was struck by the words: "I want it all. . . . And I want it now." This particular ad was for a soft drink. Later I heard another ad with the same song and ...
One Woman's Contribution
Jul 01, 2008; Cichucki, Penny HildeBrandt ... It was August 1990, and I was landing at the Honolulu airport. I was excited, but also a little nervous. I had first discovered Montessori education while living in Hawaii about 13 years earlier and had since earned my Early Childhood and Elementary credentials and started my own school in ...
Words of Wisdom: The Prepared Environment
Jul 01, 2008; Larson, Heidi ... Planning the Montessori prepared environment happens well before teachers first enter the classroom. Their best ideas might occur in the middle of the night, while stuck in traffic on the highway, when bouncing ideas off fellow teachers, or quietly sitting in the middle of a classroom looking at ...
Educating Families: One Man's Perspective
Jul 01, 2008; Salandro, Dan ... As the new Families Section representative to the AMS Board, I am writing my first column for Montessori Life, and I want to start by introducing myself. I am a finance professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. My wife and I have lived in Richmond since 1989 and have two ...
Establishing Social Justice Through Peace
Jul 01, 2008; McFarland, Sonnie ... What an opportunity we will have in New Orleans, at the AMS 2009 Annual Conference, February 26-March 1, and at the Peace Retreat immediately following, March 1-March 4. Each of us will have the chance to participate in the healing process taking place in this city, which has suffered from ...
Baby Lauren and Theodore
Jul 01, 2008; Carey, Kathy ... Baby Lauren and Theodore By Deborah Sherrell Illustrated by Danielle Larripa Laguna Hills, CA: Healing Tree Arts (2006) $17.95 Baby Lauren is a little girl who loves nature. Theodore is the tree next door, her friend, and an excellent example of a sugar maple. As the seasons progress ...
MONTESSORI MILESTONES
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Montessori Life Wins Distinguished Achievement Award On June 6, at a ceremony in Washington, DC, Montessori Life was honored with an Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) award, recognizing the best in educational materials. The journal was granted the Distinguished Achievement ...
LETTER TO THE EDITORS
Jul 01, 2008; Barron, Marlene ... Montessori Life has gone vanilla. How did this happen? Look around you. How many faces of color do you see? Now look in Montessori Life. Do you see many faces of color? I did an analysis of one issue [Vol. 20, No. 2, 2008]. Covers + inside title page: 5 white, 2 color Center ...
Where Is Everybody? Valorization in a World that Could Be
Jul 01, 2008; Donahoe, Marta ... According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in the next 30 years, more people in this world will have been formally educated than in all of recorded history. But we do not appear, at least yet, to be making significant inroads toward equipping ...
The Effects of Music Instruction on Learning in the Montessori Classroom
Jul 01, 2008; Harris, Maureen ... The value of music in educating the young child is not being recognized, particularly in the area of mathematics. Despite the amount of literature available regarding the effects of music instruction on academic achievement, little has been written on different Montessori music pedagogies and ...
ANCIENT WAYS AND LESSONS LEARNED: WHAT MONTESSORIANS CAN UNDERSTAND FROM NATIVE EDUCATORS
Jul 01, 2008; Schonleber, Nanette S ... Maria Montessori envisioned an educational approach that could serve as a transformative agent for peaceful and positive change in the world; in fact, she dedicated her adult life to perfecting teaching methods and strategies congruent with that vision (Montessori, 1949/1972). Montessorians ...
One Hen
Jul 01, 2008; Carey, Kathy ... Bite-Size Book Reviews By Kathy Carey One Hen By Katie Smith Milway Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press. (2008) $18.95 One Hen, based on the true story of Kwabena (Kojo) Darko, a poor boy from Ghana, deals with the basic principle of microfinance and should ...
The War
Jul 01, 2008; Carey, Kathy ... The War By Anais Vaugelade Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books (2001) $6.95 Originally published in French under the title La Guerre, this is a little book well worth reading, and it is deserving of a place in your school's library. The story: the Reds and the Blues have been at ...
Reflections on the Internationality of Montessori Education
Jul 01, 2008; Brunold-Conesa, Cynthia ... One of the major components of Dr. Montessori's plan for peace education is a curriculum that de-emphasizes nationalism. The "big picture" of the cultural curriculum encourages the perspective that we are citizens of Earth first, and only secondarily American, Japanese, Polish, or other ...
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Jul 01, 2008; Carey, Kathy ... Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad By Ellen Levine Illustrated by Kadir Nelson New York: Scholastic Press (2007) $16.99 In 1849, slave Henry Brown began a journey of 350 miles, from Richmond, VA, to Philadelphia, traveling for 27 hours hidden inside a wooden ...
SAVE THE DATES
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AMS Professional Development Events American Montessori Society 2008 Fall Conference Montessori: Excellence in Action November 135 - 16, 2006 Garden Grove, California AMS Heads of Schools Retreat January 16-18, 2009 Park Royal ...
THE LAST LAUGH :)
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... One of my coworker's students, a young 3-year-old, was having a difficult time separating from his parents in the mornings. His mother brought him to school one day and told his teacher, "Don't worry about Vinay At least he is learning; he told us this morning that if he had to go to school, he ...