Originally published on KQED News. By Linda Flanagan Nina Kraus, a biologist at Northwestern University, has spent the better part of her professional career researching how sound affects the brain. What she’s found has important implications for how adults and children manage the sounds that envelop them. “Sound is invisible, but it’s a tremendously powerful …
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Why Montessori has multi-age classrooms (and why siblings often learn best from each other). “Our schools have shown how children of different ages help one another. The younger ones watch what the older ones are doing and ask all kinds of questions, and the older ones explain. This is really useful teaching, for the way …
Stephen Curry explains how his Montessori background gave him the confidence to become the MVP of the NBA.
First posted on Montessori Child by Jessica Langford Montessori does offer many amazing benefits to children, but sometimes I think that the most valuable part of Montessori is what it doesn’t do. The art of Montessori often lies in the subtle or the unseen, in the hundreds of little conscious decisions we make every day …
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Sharpen your pencils – Prince George is off to school! Today, the 2-year-old – sporting a baby blue backpack – had his first day at Westacre Montessori School, near his family’s home, Amner Hall, in Norfolk, England. And luckily for the rest of us, the whole thing was captured adorably by his mom, Princess Kate. …
