September is usually a wonderful month in schools. The classrooms are freshly prepared. Teachers are energized. Parents are hopeful. Children arrive with new backpacks, new lunchboxes, and stories about new friends. For families who have just enrolled, there is often...

Parents sometimes walk into a Montessori classroom and notice something missing. No stack of worksheets. No workbooks lined up on a shelf. No thick folder of papers coming home each week showing exactly what got covered that day. If there is not much paper coming...

A younger child observes an older classmate working independently in a calm, mixed-age Montessori prepared environment. The first time parents encounter a Montessori mixed-age classroom, it can raise real questions. Wouldn't a three-year-old be better off with a room...