Table of Contents | Vol. 23 Issue 1 | 2021
Letter From IMC Executive Director Kathy Leitch • Maria Montessori’s 151st Birthday By Kathleen Dzura • Leading with Emotional Intelligence By Dane Peters • Book Review: Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom By Mary Schneider • Why are children so different today (book excerpt) by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D and Chip DeLorenzo, M.Ed • Storytelling and Executive Functioning by Michael Dorer, Ed.D. • Where have all the teachers gone? By Daniel “Robin” Howe • So, what is special education? By Christine Lowry, M.Ed. • So, what is special education? Q & A column By Christing Lowry and Kathy Leitch • Sarasota University & CGMS Announce Historic Partnership • Spotlight on Accredited School: Garden Oaks Montessori By Lorna McGrath, M.Ed
Leading With Emotional Intelligence
On Cue Everyone, “Consider EQ before IQ” by Dane Peters from Montessori Leadership November 2021 “I knew I was a relatively smart guy, with an average or a little bit above average IQ, but I knew I had something going for me in my ability to connect with people,...
So What Is Special Education?
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Spotlight on One of Our IMC Accredited Schools: Garden Oaks Montessori
Garden Oaks is a public school in a neighborhood of Houston, TX, called the Heights. The school was under-enrolled at 405 students with five Montessori and 19 traditional classrooms when Dr. Lindsey Pollock arrived in 2008. The district tasked her to convert the...
Sarasota University & CGMS Announce Historic Partnership
Sarasota University, the world’s only Montessori-focused institution of higher education, and the Center for Guided Montessori Studies, one of the world’s leading accredited teacher education programs, today announced a historic partnership to reshape the direction of...
Where Have All The Teachers Gone?
In Elka Torpey’s (2018) article “ Projections for teachers: How many are leaving the occupation?” According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, between the years of 2016 and 2026, more than 270,000 teachers will be leaving the profession each year. Whether it is...
Storytelling and Executive Functioning
All classroom teachers have had experiences with children who have difficulty in school; often, it’s unclear why. We might try a number of things and still find frustration. Often, the students clearly want to do well and evince great potential, but their difficulties...
Why are Children so Different Today
by Jane Nelsen, EdD and Chip DeLorenzo, MEd When working with Montessori teachers, we always start by asking them to list their current stressors. Inevitably, they share that children exhibit a high degree of disrespect, entitlement, and lack of...
Book Review: Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom
I have been a Montessorian and educator for over forty years — as an assistant, a Primary and Lower Elementary head teacher, a school founder, a head of school, and a Montessori teacher educator. As I read Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom, I found...
Maria Montessori’s 151st Birthday
In Celebration of Maria Montessori! We celebrated the anniversary of Montessori’s 151st Birthday in 2021 and we look forward to celebrating 115 years since the founding of the very first Casa dei Bambini on January 6, 2022. As August 31, 2021, marked the...
Letter from the IMC Executive Director
Dear IMC Members... Our IMC community has shown incredible resilience and optimism through almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have worked together to support and encourage each other, share resources, policies, procedures, and inspiring stories. We belong...
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