Year: 2019


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    Corpus Christi Montessori School

    By Lee Havis The Corpus Christi Montessori School began as a search by four parents for a favorable educational option for their young children after leaving the Montessori primary level […]

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    A Visit to Montessori Harbor-Mesa School

    By Donna Curtis (IMS ’02) Most refreshing! Most delightful! Most hospitable! Thank you, Giuliana DeFrenza, for opening your heart and school to me. I was discouraged and disappointed trying to […]

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    Other Children

    By Sally Korte (IMS ’15) Maria Montessori stated that the child perfects himself and that the only thing that the adult has to do is to prepare the environment for […]

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    It Takes a Village

    By Sally Korte (IMS ’15) Why is so difficult sometimes to solve misbehavior? Why can it be so difficult for a child to reach the stage of normalization?    This […]

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    Donna’s Montessori Ministry

    In Petaluma, California, Donna Curtis (IMS ‘06) has established an in-home Montessori school which she views as a “ministry”. Donna set up her Montessori Ministry because the normal business model […]

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    Character Teaching in Central America

    By Lee Havis The IMS “Character Teaching” (CT) project arose in 2000 as an innovative practical means for Montessori teaching with children to overcome cultural poverty in those regions of […]

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    Courthouse Montessori School in Virginia Beach, Virginia

    Judyth Timm founded Courthouse Montessori School in Virginia Beach, VA in the fall of 1994. A graduate of Virginia Wesleyan College, she sought to establish this school according to the Montessori philosophy as […]

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    IMS Network in Nigeria

    Evelyn Onyeka, Nigeria educator, has been active informing parents and teachers in her region about IMS and the “new education”. She created a “Whatsapp” platform for this purpose, which has […]

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    Flo-Mont School in Bangalore, India

    The FloMont School, located in the heart of Bangalore, the “Garden City” of India, was established in 2015 to serve children in the age group 2.5 to 9 years of age. Shahista […]

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    Accountability in Education

    Today, taxpayer funded public education has grown into a large, corrupt business that serves many special interests that have nothing to do with good quality education for the students attending. […]