Maria Montessori Language & Cultural Center

In this rapidly changing world, why do we still teach our children in the same way we did so long ago in such an isolating, yet standardized way? Do we really want our children to grow up in a competitive system that discourages collaborative work by focusing on indivi...

Originally published in the Ballard News Tribune

After more than six years providing care for young children and hands-on learning for high schoolers, Casa Maria Montessori Language and Cultural Center was packed up this week and moved from its home at Ballard High Sch...

On January 18, 2008 King County Council-member Larry Phillips visited the school and presented Casa Maria Montessori with a grant check of $3000 to help fund non-violent communication (NVC) trainers to provide programs and workshops for teachers, parents, high school s...

Originally Published in: Public School Montessorian - the Montessori community newspaper

Fall 2006 vol 19, number 1

By Gail Longo

"We must lay the foundation for peace ourselves by constructing a social environment, a new world for the child and adolescent, so that their...