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Back To The Future
Volume 45. Number 1
May 2021
Molly OʼShaughnessy Jacqui Miller Kimberlee Belcher-… |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BACK TO THE FUTURE: WHY MONTESSORI STILL MATTERS… |
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ECOPSYCHOLOGY: HOW IMMERSION IN NATURE AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH……….107
TOWARD ERDKINDER
Jim Robbins
SILENCE AND LISTENING… |
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Creating and assembling the final volume of the NAMTA Journal has been a… |
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ideas represented in NAMTA’s history. We would like to suggest that you take
advantage of the treasure trove that is the… |
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
BACK TO THE FUTURE: WHY MONTESSORI
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BACK TO THE FUTURE:
WHY MONTESSORI STILL MATTERS… |
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BACK TO THE FUTURE:
WHY MONTESSORI STILL MATTERS
Molly O’ Shaughnessy… |
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The gift my students gave me was a sculpture of my
father’s hand as a symbol of… |
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able, and is to most who enter this work, is a flame stirring within us… |
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many of us who had entered this work with a commit-
ment to social justice, equality,… |
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Hope is not simply wishful thinking. Hope must be grounded in reality.… |
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My passion for serving comes from my mother. Fifty years ago or so, she
started an… |
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Action is one partner to hope, but it has other partners: connection,… |
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ingful work. And that has made them more engaged in conversation, even
the ones that… |
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A recipient of one such scholarship package, Catherine Kennedy, describes… |
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Finally, it is imperative to understand that if we are going into a community, we must… |
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Rooted in the word revolution is the word evolution.
Evolution is… |
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Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future… |
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Action of the Mind… |
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Freedom to develop our minds to the fullest creates a new level of perception,… |
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To reach a point of collective consciousness, where there is a systemic… |
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2007, 19). Dr. Montessori was recently acknowledged by Ashoka as an historical example… |
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Thunder Valley’s plan for systemic change includes education, youth… |
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Dallas: Having Montessori implemented within our Lakota Language Nest
on the Pine… |
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emerge, rallying the forces to organize, strategically putting systems in… |
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Leadership for Change
The heart of philanthropic individuals and organizations… |
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Ripples in the Water
Without connections, without a feeling of community… |
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We welcome and embrace the spirited flame of the next
generation among us. Kindled by… |
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Leadership: A Cornerstone Montessori School
Cornerstone Montessori… |
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Partnerships and Collaboration: Cornerstone Montessori Elementary School
Cornerstone… |
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References
Blain, Lionel. “Two Philosophies Centered on Hope: Those of G… |
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THE RETURN TO SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY:
EMBRACING OUR ROOTS AND… |
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Instruction from Indiana University. Today, she serves as the Executive… |
| THE RETURN TO SCIENTIFIC PEDAGOGY:
EMBRACING OUR ROOTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Jacqui Miller and Kimberlee Belcher – Badal, Ph.D… |
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Jacqui - I identify as a Montessorian of Color, because being a… |
| It’s my nature now to identify and examine the ways we are alike and different
across communities and cultures, but this… |
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Method originated, defines who we are, and directs what
we do in our… |
| Montessori pedagogy is whole-being pedagogy,
comprising more than the sum of its parts: pieces includ-
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vital. America's future—its ability to create a truly just society,… |
| As an educational community, we pride ourselves in the durability of Montessori
knowledge over the past 100+ years. This is… |
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be urgently looking at how this new information interacts with and… |
| social aim of human solidarity. Due to the social nature of Montessori, embedding reflec-
tion time, connecting critical… |
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Georgia. We created a place-based early adolescent program as a “school… |
| Scientific Pedagogy in Action
“My method is founded on the child himself. Our study has its ori-
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One Case Study: What we learned from the children
Jacqui- Since 2013, I… |
| of the original 95 Stonebrook students and families had experience with Montessori edu-
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pell identifies and to incorporate them into non-punitive systems that… |
| Kimberlee- The Stonebrook story, like so many before and alongside it, reflects com-
monalities we see when communities… |
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where we are, and where we’re going we must first awaken our human… |
| worldviews, which are often allowed to flourish unexamined, inform and organize the
ways in which humans experience and… |
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we serve. They… |
| A TRIBUTE TO
MONTESSORI VOICES
IN REMEMBERENCE
Deborah Bricker
ANNETTE HAINES
Robyn Milos
KAY BAKER
Gregory MacDonald… |
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IN REMEMBRANCE:
ANNETTE HAINES, KAY BAKER AND JOEN BETTMANN
Deborah… |
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Robyn Milos was trained by Annette Haines and was later invited by Annette to help ad-
ministrate the… |
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ANNETTE HAINES… |
| TRIBUTE TO ANNETTE HAINES
Robyn Milos
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And yet, she couldn’t understand why people found her to be intimidating… |
| KAY BAKER
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Kay Baker was an internationally… |
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TRIBUTE TO KAY BAKER
Gregory MacDonald… |
| way for future generations of Trainers and Guides. If you haven’t read her work, make
time to do this - Every article is a… |
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JOEN BETTMANN… |
| TRIBUTE TO JOEN BETTMANN
Jennifer Shields
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I lost my mother to breast cancer in the 80s and the universe brought me… |
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GUIDED BY NATURE
INTRODUCTION
Jacquie Maughan
THE CHILD IN THE WORLD
Lena Wikramaratne
SOWING THE SEEDS OF THE… |
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GUIDED BY NATURE
By Jacquie Maughan… |
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And as Dr. Montessori has stated: “Let the children be free; encourage them; let them
run… |
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Dr. Montessori has suggested that “…when children come into contact with… |
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THE CHILD IN THE WORLD OF NATURE
by Lena Wikramaratne… |
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The adult society shelters children from the wind, rain, mountains, streams, and even… |
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his home in the world. As he began to travel far and wide communicating… |
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snow, tempest, boundless space had formed his spectacles, his companions, his love.… |
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to know nature but to live in nature. What is important is the liberation… |
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printing all of these facts are now recorded in books. But knowledge must not be sepa… |