Discover Montessori School

11/11/2025

https://youtu.be/7V6nucKFK88

“How will children who are so constantly artificially stimulated ever learn to think, imagine, create or just be still?”In her ARC 2025 speech, Sophie Winkle...

07/31/2025

06/14/2025

This series is for parents craving a very simple, practical Montessori approach to helping their children transition from diapers to underwear (a.k.a. "potty training").

06/06/2025

Toileting can be a joyful and empowering process for both child and parent—when we understand the when and why. In this first episode of a four-part series, Paula shares how to recognize signs of readiness and why respectful toilet learning matters in early childhood.

Paula writes a blog and articles about Montessori education and parenting. She has been a Montessori educator for 25 years at Forest Bluff School.

06/05/2025

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The design uses recycled Douglas Fir floorboards as exterior cladding, and interior corridors are lined with Hemlock tiles using waste diverted from a lumber mill.

03/13/2025

The Importance of Chores!

02/28/2025

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cl2.1330
Montessori education's impact on academic and nonacademic outcomes.

Background Montessori education is the oldest and most widely implemented alternative education in the world, yet its effectiveness has not been clearly established. Objectives The primary objecti...

02/13/2025

Learn how the brain impacts your child's anxiety and how to help them manage anxious feelings with your support!

02/04/2025

DMS is snowed under.

01/05/2025

Independence and the Adolescent

“A system of education that is based on liberty ought to aim at assisting a child in obtaining [independence], and it should have as its specific aim, the freeing of the child from those ties which limit its spontaneous manifestations. Little by little, as a child proceeds along this way, he will ...

01/01/2025

Happy New Year from all of us at DMS!

12/25/2024

From all of us at DMS.