Class size is often an important consideration when selecting the right school for your child. The prevailing understanding is that small classes with low student-teacher ratios indicate a higher quality
How Washington Montessori School Approaches Peace Education At WMS, we are fortunate to be building on Dr. Montessori’s strong foundation of kindness, respect, and unwavering positive regard for each individual
Maria Montessori’s Vision of Peace Education How does a Montessori School teach children to create justice in an unjust world? How do we provide an equitable and inclusive learning environment
In this blog post, Washington Montessori School explores how the Positive Discipline approach strikes the right balance between constructively guiding children and fostering their independence. Read on to learn how Positive Discipline works in the Montessori classroom — and how it can be implemented in the child’s home environment.
In this blog post, Tom Fahsbender, Director of Middle School Experiential Learning, unpacks the philosophy and methodology behind a staple of Washington Montessori’s Middle School curriculum: the 8th-grade Expert Project.
In the wider world, toys marketed as “Montessori” or “Montessori-inspired” are often accompanied by expectations that they are beige or boring; the antithesis of the loud, neon-hued toys demanding your child’s attention in a toy store.
Parents may have heard a bit about our classrooms, but they don’t know much about the approach’s history or the lifelong impact of Montessori education.
Through years of research and careful observation, Dr. Maria Montessori declared that education from birth to 6 was the most important in a child’s life. “Children taking in knowledge now retain it for the rest of their life,” she asserted in her book “Absorbent Mind.”
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