Resources

We hope you enjoy the online resources we have provided here.  If you have any specific questions about the Montessori method or have additional information to share with our community, please contact us at [email protected].

Beth Heller, MSE Head of School, shares her perspective on education in a series of articles in Serenity Magazine.  These articles include:

• Taking the Long View on Parenting
• Lessons I Learned from Maria Montessori
• A Race to Somewhere
• Curiosity: A Proven Key to Success
• Easing the Back-to-School Transition
• Landing the Helicopter
• A Perplexing Decision
• Defining Montessori
• The Truth about Lying

General Education Articles

We are passionate about researching, reading, and debating trends and studies that are of interest to the wider education world.  While not all the articles below pertain to Montessori philosophy or even the age of students served at MSE, we find them valuable because they address topics like critical thinking, love of learning, and hands-on education–all tenets of an education at MSE.

• Read more about our MSE Middle School students’ newest entrepreneurial endeavor, One World One Bean Vanilla, in an article titled, “Students Learn to be Bean Counters,” in the Canyon Courier.
• Today’s business innovators credit their Montessori education to their success, as discussed in this article titled, “Maria Montessori: Guru for a New Generation of Business Innovators.”
• Read about how Montessori is good for business in this article titled, “Montessori:  It’s good for business.”
• Read more about how the Montessori philosophy and technology go hand-in-hand by one of our very own MSE parents, Laura St. John, in her blog post: http://parentables.howstuffworks.com/family-matters/would-maria-montessori-have-embraced-todays-technology.html.
• Read more about “Schools of the Future,” and what they provide for our children as discussed by Pat Bassett, NAIS President, in http://www.nais.org/about/article.cfm?ItemNumber=155829&sn.ItemNumber=4181&tn.ItemNumber=147271.
• Read more about the best ideas on how to fix K-12 education with a variety of interesting references to the Montessori philosophy, as discussed in “The Best Ideas for Fixing K-12 Education, “ in Forbes Magazine.
• Some students are taking their education into their own hands, as discussed in “Let the Kids Rule the School,” in the New York Times.
• Learn more about the benefits of teaching kids to be inquisitive in “The Montessori Mafia,” in the Wall Street Journal.
• Learn how the Montessori Method teaches kids how to be innovative at a very young age, as discussed in “Montessori Builds Innovators,” in the Harvard Business Review.

• The Montessori philosophy is credited with encouraging inquisitiveness which is tied to entrepreneurial success, as discussed in  “Innovators and Montessori,” in the Harvard Business Review.

• Schools should do more to raise kids rather than test scores, as discussed in “Playing to Learn,” in the New York Times.

• Teaching kids to think analytically is the key to success, as discussed in “Rethinking Advanced Placement,” in the New York Times.

• Educators are questioning how accurate grades are, as discussed in “A Quest to Determine What Grades Really Mean,” in the New York Times.

• Bullying still continues to be an issue in schools, as discussed in “Learning to be Nicer in Middle School,” in the New York Times.

• Educators and parents argue for unstructured play in children’s lives, as discussed in, “Effort to Restore Child’s Play Gains Momentum,” in the New York Times.

• Researchers talk about how fitness affects a young child’s brain, as discussed in “Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter?” in the New York Times.

• A new middle school program aims to teach kids by letting them play video games, as discussed in“Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom,” in the New York Times.

• Researchers debunk the myth that there is only one way to study, as discussed in “Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits,” in the New York Times.

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