We have a new school! All of us (well, except Jason). My good friend Sarah's mom knows the director and has sent her kids to the school. It's exceptional, but exceptionally expensive. SO, I am going to teach in the older children's class so that my kid's tuition can be paid for. Sarah and her kids are working and schooling here too, so my kids are lucky enough to have some familiar faces!
Olivia didn't want to come home the first day!
I'll attach a link to some good articles on Montessori, there's just too much to go into and my brain is fried!
A study published in the journal, "Science" in 2006:
On several dimensions, children at a public inner city Montessori school had superior outcomes relative to a sample of Montessori applicants who, because of a random lottery, attended other schools. By the end of kindergarten, the Montessori children performed better on standardized tests of reading and math, engaged in positive interaction on the playground more, and showed advanced social cognition and executive control more. They also showed more concern for fairness and justice. At the end of elementary school, Montessori children wrote more creative essays with more complex sentence structures, selected more positive responses to social dilemmas, and reported feeling more of a sense of community at their school.
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