11/11/2025
https://youtu.be/7V6nucKFK88
WATCH: The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech In Schools | Sophie Winkleman
“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...
06/14/2025
Toileting Series, Episode #1: when and why!✨🚽
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.
Toileting #1- when and why!
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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Discover Montessori School achieves CAGBC Zero Carbon certification
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!
How to make your kids successful
02/28/2025
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cl2.1330
Montessori education's impact on academic and nonacademic outcomes.
Montessori education's impact on academic and nonacademic outcomes: A systematic review
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
Helping Your Child Manage Anxiety: A Guide for Parents
Learn how the brain impacts your child's anxiety and how to help them manage anxious feelings with your support!
01/05/2025
Independence and the Adolescent
Independence in the Third Plane of Development
“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!