Montessori in Action Podcast

Our guests for this episode are from The Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education ( MACTE) which is an organization that accredits Montessori teacher education programs. They are committed to improving academic degree and certificate programs for Montessori professional educators who teach and lead in schools at the Infant and Toddler through Secondary II levels.    As one of only tw...

Season Two, Episode 7 of Montessori in Action Podcast hosts a conversation with two Montessori educators working in Elementary classrooms in public Montessori schools. They had not met or spoken prior to this conversation. The topic for discussion is how children are reentering school this year following the disruptions of the pandemic and what educators are doing to support them.

Season Two, Episode 6 of Montessori in Action Podcast hosts a conversation with three Montessori educators working in 3-6 classrooms in public Montessori schools. They had not met or spoken prior to this conversation. The topic for discussion is how young children are reentering school this year following the disruptions of the pandemic and what educators are doing to support them. There are two o...

Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and families. They aspire to give all children and families the opportunity to have high quality education in beautiful learning environments and they do this through the creation of small teacher-led schools. Our guests for this episode are the leadership team for a new initiative in Washington,...

Episode Four is a conversation with American Montessori Society Executive Director, Munir Shivji and Director of Equity and Engagement, Maati Wafford. These leaders share their current work in the organization as well as the plans for new initiatives.

This episode is a conversation with Ayize Sabater as he shares his journey to become the Executive Director of AMI USA, and his vision for the work ahead in the organization. He also talks about his role in establishing the Black Montessori Educational Fund.

Our August episode brings co-authors from two continents together to talk about their book Montessori Baby. Drawing on principles developed by Dr. Montessori, The Montessori Baby explores how to interact with your baby from birth to age one with love, respect, and insight. Co-written by Junnifa Uzodike and Simone Davies, author of The Montessori Toddler, it is filled with practical ideas for under...

Welcome back to another year with Montessori in Action Podcast, celebrating authors as they release books in our Montessori community. Mariana Bissonnette has written Babies Build Toddlers, a special parenting book that makes child development information both accessible and actionable for everyday readers. It explores the unfolding of the child during the first part of the first plane of developm...

“For success in life depends in every case on self confidence and the knowledge of one’s own capacity and many-sided powers of adaptation.” From Childhood to Adolescence by Dr. Maria Montessori.    This Anniversary episode is a celebration of one year together. It holds thoughts from previous guests as they look back at the past school year and reflect on what they learned. They offer a cache (a c...

This episode is a conversation with Patrizia Mercuri, director of the Istituto Comprensivo San Donato in Sardinia, Italy. The school began as a traditional program until Mercuri was approached by parents with the request to begin a Montessori classroom. This public Montessori school, nestled within a larger public school, continues to grow each year and in the coming year will welcome 128 children...

Join us for episode ten, a conversation with long-time Montessorian, Jacqui Miller. In this engaging discussion, Miller shares both her history and her vision - bringing some big dreams forward for the Montessori community. Her dedication to education as a means to social change and community development comes through clearly as does her commitment to visionary leadership.    

Our next episode is a conversation with Amelia Allen Sherwood, the Anti-Bias & Anti-Racism Director at Elm City Montessori School in New Haven, Connecticut. She shares with listeners her work at Elm City to promote equity and her vision for the Sankofa Learning Center. For more information about Amelia’s work, visit her website .

Ana María García Blanco es una educadora Puertorriqueña que es la pionera de educación pública Montessori en la isla. Actualmente, es la Directora Ejecutiva del Instituto Nueva Escuela, una organización no lucrativa, comprometida a la transformación social y educacional del sistema de educación pública a través del método Montessori. Como una educadora con su licenciatura, maestría y doctorado de...

In a conversation with Ana Maria Garcia Blanco, listeners will be invited into the world of public Montessori in Puerto Rico. As the Principal of the first public Montessori program on the island, other schools turned to her for support building public Montessori programs to serve their children. This led to the founding of the Instituto Nueva Escuela where she has been the Executive Director sinc...

In this episode, Mira Debs, author of Diverse Families, Desirable Schools talks about the impetus for her book, her findings and the community conversations that followed its publication.

Hannah Richardson and Katie Rucker, who joined us in August for Episode Two, meet again to discuss how their re-opening plans worked out this fall. They opened in two different ways and share successes and refinements to their program. Their insights, questions and suggestions to each other further explore the topic of how to continue offering a strong Montessori program during a global pandemic.

Our conversation with Hadar Peled explores public Montessori in Israel. She shares a vision of Montessori education as a vehicle for peace in a place that has endured conflict for generations.

Discussion of “An Examination of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Anti-bias Anti-racist Curriculum in a Montessori Setting.”

In this episode, two educators weigh in on the topic of Key Children. Click here for more.  

Two school leaders discuss their plans to reopen this August.

Koren Clark currently works to develop micro-schools within the Wildflower Network and operates her own business Knowthyselfinc . To learn more, visit our website . 

Host Elizabeth Slade introduces the upcoming podcast Montessori in Action.