Author: Washington Montessori School

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Montessori

The 25-26 School Year in Review

From the debut of exciting new programs to some remarkable, record-breaking achievements, the 25-26 school has been defined by the realization of individual and collective potential. This post is an

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Montessori

How Montessori Personalizes the Learning Experience

In education, the terms “individualization” and “personalization” are often used interchangeably to describe a pedagogical approach designed to support the specific needs of each child it serves. But there is

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Outdoor Education

The Value of Grounding Education in Nature

From recess and summer camps to Outward Bound programs, incorporating the outdoors in education has become ubiquitous in practice since the modern forest school movement began in the 1950s. The

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Community

Montessori in the Age of AI

Written by Anna (P ‘28, P’30) Kerry and I recently had a conversation about education in the time of AI — what does education look like on the cusp of

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Humanities
Middle School

Defining Montessori Middle School

Adolescence is a remarkable and complex time of life that involves immense physical, emotional, and cognitive change — and great developmental variance; some students arrive in middle school full-fledged teenagers,

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Montessori

The Montessori Approach to Music

In 2018, researchers at MIT set out to gather hard evidence of the previously established but largely self-reported link between music education and improved cognitive, emotional, and academic skills.  They

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