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Journal
Themes
Recent themes have
included Montessori
frameworks for adolescence; language, creativity, and culture;
parent education; nurturing the human potential; all-day
Montessori; future challenges; school administration; nature and aesthetics; and moral and character development. Themes set for this year
are:
Winter 2010—Montessori School Culture and the Economy: Finding Stability in Uncertain Times
This Journal will include a new 2009 salary survey, strategic plans to address revenue losses, admissions and promotion approaches, cultivation of funds development in times of philanthropic scarcity, best financial practices, and a general overview of present challenges in North America.
Spring 2010—Essential Math and Language: Whole-School Implementation
This Journal will provide a curriculum overview for three planes of education, placing emphasis on whole-school coordination of developmental and academic objectives, incorporating adolescent program design as an aid to synthesizing the whole. Based on conference proceedings in Baltimore and Dallas for the 2009-2010 conference season.
Summer 2010—Montessori Internationalism and Peace: Unifying History, Geography, and Natural Science
Every cultural lesson from Children’s House to high school sets up a pathway to global understanding, from the presentation of land and water to cultivating the soil and planting a garden. The meaningful work cycle creates harmonious well-being, providing a hint as to Montessori’s revolutionary definition of peace. Subject areas are restructured to convey the unity of human great work at the elementary and adolescent levels, leading to a fresh perspective on the synthesis and purpose of Montessori education.
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