Closeout Sale on books by NAMTA conference speakers and others
Limited supply—when they’re gone, they’re gone!

Oneness and Separateness by Louise Kaplan
Simon & Schuster, 1998, Paperback
Louise Kaplan spoke at NAMTA’s conference The Montessori Assistants to Infancy from All Perspectives: The Journey from Unconscious to Conscious in Baltimore, MD, October 16-18, 2008. Dr. Kaplan is a psychoanalyst, author, and feminist scholar. Among her six critically acclaimed books is Oneness and Separateness, featured on the reading list for AMI Assistants to Infancy training courses.

Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Mariner Books, 1999, Paperback
Alfie Kohn has spoken at numerous NAMTA conferences and has been described by Time magazine as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” Educated at Brown University and the University of Chicago, he lives in Belmont, Massachusetts. Of his eleven books, Punished By Rewards lays out the foundations of his thinking.

Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist by Mitchell Thomashow
MIT Press, 1996, Paperback
This classic in environmental education focuses on the individual’s personal experience with nature. This work has inspired NAMTA speakers including David Hutchison and David Orr.

Caring Classrooms/Intelligent Schools: The Social Emotional Education of Young Children by Jonathan Cohen and James P. Comer
Teachers College Press, 2001, Paperback
Dr. Cohen is an educator, clinician, author, and co-founder and president of the Center for Social and Emotional Education (CSEE), an international educational and professional development center. CSEE’s mission is to educate and support K-12 school leaders to promote students’ social, emotional, ethical, and academic competencies and create a climate for learning. He appeared at the NAMTA conference The Thoughtful School: Social and Educational Realities of the Montessori Experience, Baltimore, MD, October 4-7, 2007.

Three Classic Novels for Young to Older Adolescents:

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury