So I repeat that we cannot give principles by teaching them but by prolonged social experience. (Montessori, 2019)

The issue of teasing is something most of us understand. Being teased as a child can feel incredibly isolating and lonely. Chances are, at some point growing up, you’ve been on the rec...

I had the pleasure of joining Tamara Sheesely Balis and Greenspring Center for Lifelong Learning for the Voices in Montessori podcast to discuss the importance of holding regular class meetings as a tool to build students’ leadership skills. We discussed how class meetings are essential to de...

The child who has never learned to act alone, to direct his own actions, to govern his own will, grows into an adult who is easily led and must always lean upon others.  (Montessori, 2019)

“Mr. D, Tommy won’t let me work with Sam by myself.”

“Robert drooled on my paper.”

“Ben is kicking me under ...

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.  (Montessori, 1995)

Defiance can be one of the most maddening behaviors we encounter in the classroom. Defiance, opposition, or power struggles can take many forms. A child might re...

Let us always remember that inner discipline is something to come, and not something already present. Our task is to show the way to discipline.  (Montessori, 1995)

Physical aggression is one of the most concerning and stressful behaviors in classrooms. Recently, Montessori educators worldwide have...

She must fashion herself, she must learn how to observe, how to be calm, patient, and humble, how to restrain her own impulses, and how to carry out her eminently practical tasks with the required delicacy. She too has greater need of a gymnasium for her soul than of a book for her intellect. (Monte...

“Children are so responsive that if you treat your child with kindness and consideration he too will be kind”. (Montessori, 2007).

Empathy is the awareness of someone else’s emotional experience and the ability to put oneself in another’s shoes, feeling what they feel. Compassion comes from the Lat...

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not by being told he is naughty. Discipline is, there- fore, primarily a learning experience and less a punitive experience if appropriately dealt with. (Montessori, 1995)

Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art form.  ...

“There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within t...

I had a wonderful opportunity to talk with Tamara Balis of Greenspring Center for Lifelong Learning.  I hope you enjoy this podcast on maintaining limits in the classroom.