Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck Revisits the ‘Growth Mindset’ by Carol Dweck For many years, I secretly worked on my research. I say “secretly” because, once upon a time, researchers simply published their research in professional journals—and there it stayed. However, my colleagues and I learned things we thought people needed to know. We found that students’ mindsets—how …

Don’t Write Off Cursive

Teaching kids how to write in script is no longer a priority in American schools, but it should be. Cursive is an art. It’s woven into the very fabric of the United States constitution. Yet, everywhere we look, it’s literally being written out of existence. Like a sandcastle built at the edge of the sea, …

Startup Companies See Montessori As Entrepreneurship Education

A recent article in ChicagoInno looked at two different startup company founders, Jake Nickell, founder of Threadless, and Charles Adler, co-founder of Kickstarter, who are parents of Montessori children, and how they value Montessori as Entrepreneurship Education. “You have the ability to work by yourself, or you’re going to be working with peers and you’re …

Screen time for children

Meet Naima Nahid, a seven year-old. A first grader, she already takes selfies everyday, uploads them on Facebook (she has a Facebook account), gives about a dozen of check-ins in a month and enjoys playing video games on her mother’s tablet. “Without these, life would be boring and unimaginable,” she says. Many parents, like those …