By Don Henchel, Upper Elementary Teacher
Once upon a time…My dear friend and colleague, Judy Martell, had an inspired idea. Together with former MCS parent and benefactor extraordinaire, Laura Brader-Araje, they came up with the Teacher Enrichment Award (aka TEP). The idea being that after the school year was over, during the summer months, teachers needed recharging.
By Al Daniel
The Dempsey sisters have been bookending the BosWash megalopolis of late. The elder, Lucy Dempsey ’08, is a two-and-a-half-hour drive away from the nation’s capital, in her first year of law school at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia
By Al Daniel
Sarah McCombie continues to lead by example, even after leaving her former career in education.
By Lisa Bohn, Office Manager
Before I started working at MCS in September, I was somewhat familiar with Maria Montessori and her teachings but had never been in a Montessori classroom myself.
By Lindsay Porter, Toddler Teacher
A few years ago, a new theory of personality made a brief splash on the Internet: The Muppet Theory. Basically, it’s the premise that each of us is primarily an Order Muppet (rule-following, organized, risk-averse) or a Chaos Muppet (spontaneous, emotional, a bit volatile).
By Rochelle Hayes, Primary Teacher
Fridays are extra special days in our classroom. Students from the Adolescent Community visit us those mornings, and it’s hard to tell who’s more excited about it, our three to six-year-olds or the adolescents!
By Jeff Kishpaugh, Upper Elementary Teacher
A central idea in Montessori education is that “the child creates the adult” – that is, that the child, through her/his work, is creating the adult that s/he will become.
By Keturah Russell, Assistant Head of School for Academic Programs and Support; Toddler, Primary, and Lower Elementary Program Director
At Montessori Community School sixth grade is the last year of the elementary program. Our accrediting agency, the American Montessori Society, endorses sixth grade as an important “capstone” year of developmental maturation.
By Sabine Howe, Physical Education Specialist
One of the events particularly unique to MCS is our Upper Elementary (UEL) Mini Olympics.
By Al Daniel
Emojis enlivened Alana Fiordalisi’s introduction to what could be the basis for her career.
