Our Favorite Montessori Links

Montessori Madness, the 123Draw version with Trevor Eissler

Trevor Eissler is the original Montessori Dad.  He loved what it did for his children so much that he wrote a book about it (Montessori Madness, a must-read for any prospective Montessori parent) and is working on developing the movement to bring Montessori mainstream. He has more recently been joined in this quest by Dr. Steven Hughes (see below) and Daniel Petter-Lipstein (see below also) This video is a speed-drawing overview of Montessori: The drawings alone are worth the watch.

Is Montessori The Origin of Google & Amazon? by Steve Denning. From Forbes.com
Somebody finally said it:  There's an incredibly successful model for education that has been around for a hundred years and is already globally implemented to boot.

The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education by Steve Denning. From Forbes.com

Change the goal from cramming it in to fostering a life-long love of learning. Now, where have we heard that before???

Let Denning say it: "Thousands of Montessori schools have been on this track for many years, with extraordinary results. (See, "Is Montessori The Origin of Google & Amazon", above, also by Denning.)

Superwoman Was Already Here by Daniel Petter-Lipstein via Forbes.com

A Montessori Dad says it briefly and eloquently and was quoted heavily on Forbes.com

Montessori Mafia by Peter Sims. From the Wall Street Journal.

A feel-good article: Montessori goes mainstream.  Two business school professors, as a result of a study of 3,000 entrepreneurs, discover that a disproportionate number, especially of the most successful of them, went to Montessori schools, and say so, publicly.

Montessori Builds Innovators by Andrew McAfee from the Harvard Business Review blog

Why Montessori is the perfect incubator for innovators in training, from the principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management -- and a Montessori child himself.

For fun:  The first five minutes of the TED talk by Sims videogame inventor Will Wright.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/will_wright_makes_toys_that_make_worlds.html

Once a Montessori child, always a Montessori child.

Dr. Steven Hughes: Good at Doing Things: Montessori Education and Higher Order Cognitive Functions
(Careful:  This one is about 1.5 hours long; tough to handle at one sitting).
Dr. Steven Hughes is a pediatric neurologist on staff and the University of Minnesota Medical School.  This is an amazing talk from a neurological perspective -- a dazzling tribute to Montessori's genius.