Montessori Life Magazine Digital Resources
Links to digital resources and references from Montessori Life magazine.
Montessori Life, Spring 2024
Letter from the Editors: Standing Together
By Carey Jones
- Action Research in Montessori Classrooms
- Action Research: A Tool for Innovation
- Montessori Action Research Symposium
- Overview of Research on Montessori Education
- Action Research in Montessori Classrooms Handout
Research: Guiding Our Work & Our Impact
By Munir Shivji
Action Research: A Tool for Equity
by Gay Ward
References
- Benefits of movement in a Montessori classroom on children’s behavior and focus
- Self-paced individualized learning
- Incorporating peace education into the school curriculum: Building empathy and self-worth while taking ownership over peace
- Visual literacy and Socratic seminars in a secondary Montessori classroom
Suggested Reading
Applying Liberatory Consciousness to Action Research
by Maati Wafford
References
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
- Developing a liberatory consciousness
- Our future scientists: A review of stereotype threat in girls from early elementary school to middle school
Community over Control
By Margaret Beagle
References
- Executive function & self-regulation
- Investigating correlates of self-regulation in early childhood with a representative sample of English-speaking American families
- Education and Culture
- Montessori and the mainstream: A century of reform on the margins
A Journey into the Science of Reading
By Tori Virlee, PsyD, Erin Hardin, and Chelsea McKinlay
- Fall Montessori Life 2023 (AMS Members Only)
References
- Orthographic mapping in the acquisition of sight word reading, spelling memory, and vocabulary learning
- Pictorial mnemonics for phonics
- Reading Rockets: Elkonin boxes
- Reading Rockets: Glossary
- A question I hate: Should we use pictures (embedded mnemonics) when teaching phonics?
- Embedded picture mnemonics to learn letters
Book Reviews
By Hannah Cherry, Robin Howe, and Leslie Woodford
- Pink Panties & Other Life Lessons: A Mindful Compendium for Adolescents, by Danielle Parker
- The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki
- Love, By Matt dela Peña
- You are Here: Connecting Flights, Edited by Ellen Oh
- I Must Betray You, by Rua Sepetys
A New Word for Normalization?
By Carey Jones
Session Recording
Montessori Life, Winter 2024
Advancing Together with Technology (pg. 12 – 13)
By Carey Jones
- "Advancing Together: AI Tools for the Education Community," co-written by the Innovation Fellowship Think Tank technology group.
The Think Tank technology group also has some tips for educators when it comes to vetting AI education platforms:
- "Advancing Together: AI Tools for the Education Community"
- UNICEF
- “AI and Our Kids: Common Sense Considerations and Guidance for Parents, Educators and Policymakers 2023” by Common Sense Media
- AI4K12
- Good Tech Alliance
Equity and AI (pg. 60)
By Maati Wafford
- Why Schools Need to Talk About Racial Bias in AI-Powered Technologies by Benjamin Herold, EdWeek
Montessori, Technology, and the Purpose of Education (pg. 18 – 21)
By Patrick Frierson
Suggested Reading
- Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
Personal Essay: My Explorations in Tech and Montessori
By Dana Anderson
Tech Resources to Explore
- Common Sense Media
- Common Sense Education
- aiEDU
- Edutopia
- Khan Academy
- Khan Academy Kids
- Tinybop
- EPIC! Books
- Scratch Jr.
Transform Your Teaching with ChatGPT: How Artificial Intelligence Can Unlock Creativity and Efficiency (pg. 41 – 49)
By Letty Rising
- Getting Started with ChatGPT
- Suggested Reading: ChatGPT for Teachers in Montessori Elementary Classrooms by Letty Rising