"Today we celebrate the 90th birthday of Forest Bluff School founder, author, teacher, community leader, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother - and so much more - Paula Polk Lillard. Without her incredible vision and capacity for work, the Montessori world would be a different place. Compassionate, wise, charismatic, loving - we are so grateful ...
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Maple Corner Montessori embraces an assortment of cultures during annual International Children’s Day celebration
“We turn our classrooms into different parts of the world — such as a different continent, country or in this year’s case, a different time period.” ...
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How Libertas School of Memphis turned elementary school in Frayser around
"A lot of people doubted that school turnaround could work." Maitri Learning's president, Julia Volkman, was the founding primary trainer for the school. Maitri Learning's materials are widely used. Some of the materials you will notice throughout the news spot are the traditional movable alphabet in print, the phonetic 3-part reading cards, and ...
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Maitri Learning founder teaches Harvard online course
Julia Volkman has been teaching the Harvard extension course The Neuroscience of Learning and is passionate about the transformative potential of this field. ...
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Montessori student featured in NY Times
8th grader Jaiden of Turning Point School, Culver City, CA, is featured in The New York Times for his participation in the September Vocabulary Challenge. ...
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