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Books
These books are available in most libraries and bookstores. This is not a comprehensive list but rather a suggested reference list of books we have found valuable to our understanding of the growth and development of children and the Montessori Method.
Books About Montessori Education
- Montessori Today, A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood, Paula Polk Lillard
- Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius, Angelene Stoll Lillard
- Montessori Madness!, Trevor Eissler
- A Parent’s Guide to the Montessori Classroom, Aline D. Wolf
- To Educate the Human Potential, Maria Montessori
- The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
Books About Parenting and Education
- Montessori From the Start, Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen
- Living Simply with Children, Marie Sherlock
- Endangered Minds, Jane Healy
- Punished by Rewards, Alfie Kohn
- Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
- Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
- Between Parent and Child,
Dr. Haim G. Ginott, Alice Ginott, and H.Goddard
Videos
Trevor Eissler, Montessori parent, offers a parent-to-parent argument for Montessori education.
The TED Conference hears from Google’s co-founders about how Montessori helped create their mammoth success.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
An animated version of Ken Robinson's follow-on talk about Changing Education Paradigms.
Articles
How do Innovators Think?
A recent article in Harvard Business Review discusses innovative entrepreneurs vs. average executives.
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
A Time Magazine report.
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The Montessori Mafia
From the Wall Street Journal.
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Evaluating Montessori Education
Groundbreaking study by Angeline Lillard, published in Science Magazine.
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Ten Reasons People Still Need Cursive.
While some argue cursive writing belongs in the archives and Common Core ushers it out of schools, the evidence shows we need it as much as ever.
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Websites
Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) is the original organization to promote the ideas and principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, both training teachers and accrediting schools. Association Montessori Internationale / USA is AMI's branch office in the United States.
amiusa.org
The American Montessori Society (AMS) leads, empowers, and serves the global community of Montessori educators as the foremost advocate for research and policy, ongoing teacher education, and standards of accreditation through opportunities for mentored individual growth, collaboration, and member engagement.
Aid to Life offers clear, simple, straightforward parenting advice that is easy to understand and most importantly easy to apply.
aidtolife.org
A Few Famous Montessori Students
STEPHEN CURRY – Basketball player
JEFF BEZOS – Founder of Amazon
SERGEY BRIN & LARRY PAGE – Google founders
JOSHUA BELL – Grammy award-winning violinist and subject of a Pulitzer prize- winning media story
BEYONCE KNOWLES – Singer, songwriter, actress and fashion designer,16-time Grammy award-winner
HELEN KELLER – Political activist, author, lecturer, awarded the presidential medal of freedom, one of gallup’s most widely admired people of the 20th century
DEVI SRIDHAR – Youngest-ever American Rhodes scholar, author, oxford research fellow, oxford lecturer on global health politics
ERIK ERIKSON – Psychologist & Author
PRINCE WILLIAMS and PRINCE HARRY – Heirs to the British Throne