Admissions for Fall of 2020
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Montessori In Context
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Private Schools Seek to Dump A-F Grading
The Mercury News, 9/17/17, Sharon Noguchi
The Fundamental Things we Aren't Teaching our Kids
The Washington Post, 9/6/17, Valerie Strauss
A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry
NYTimes, 8/11/17, Kyle Spencer
Montessori Schools Offer Big Lessons for 'Managers'Forbes.com, 8/20/16, Ashoka
Corporate Kindergarten: How A Montessori Mindset Can Transform Your Business
Forbes.com, 12/16/15, Justin Wasserman
Why Children Need Chores
Wall Street Journal, 3/13/15, Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Montessori Builds Innovators
Harvard Business Review, 7/25/11, Andrew McAfee
Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught?
NYTimes, 9/11/13, Jennifer Kahn
Why Do I Teach?
NYTimes, 5/22/13, Gary Gutting
Need a Job? Invent It
NYTimes, 3/30/13, Thomas L. Friedman
Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students
From KQED's MindShift series, 1/18/13
The Similarities Between Montessori And Digital Learning
TeachThought Staff, 12/26/2012
Opting Out of the 'Rug Rat Race'
Paul Tough, Wall Street Journal, 9/7/12
"Don't Lecture Me Now: Rethinking How College Students Learn"From KQED's MindShift series, 9/13/11
"Develop Leaders the Montessori Way"
From Harvard Business Review's online blog, 2/25/12
"What You (Really) Need to Know"
NYTimes, 1/20/12, Lawrence Summers, former President, Harvard University
"The Montessori Mafia"
WSJ online 4/5/11, contemporary business leaders credit their Montessori education
Watch
"Mindset: How to Help Every Child Fulfill Their Potential"
12/15/15, Carol Dweck’s RSA Animated talk, 10 min.
"Drive:The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us"
4/1/10, Daniel Pink’s RSA Animated talk, 11 min.
The Collaborative Classroom
12/10/07, Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, 9 min.
"Changing Education Paradigms"
10/14/10, Sir Ken Robinson, 11 min.
"Montessori & the Future of Education"
10/20/09, Dr. Steve Hughes, Pediatric Neuropsychologist, 3 min.
"Montessori Madness"
Trevor Eissler, animated, 6 min.
Google founders talk briefly about their Montessori education
2 min.
Montessori educator Sue Pritzker and others on Montessori Primary and Elementary education
4 min.
TED Talks
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
4/13, Angela Lee Duckworth, professor, 6 min.
"The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance"
5/14/11, Shawn Achor, professor, 12 min.
"Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
1/6/07 Sir Ken Robinson, author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts, 20 min.
"The Surprising Science of Motivation"
8/28/09, Dan Pink, author, 18 min.