Working Together

As we continue our work to move Montessori Forward, we increasingly realize the importance and need for collaboration, cooperation and communication within the Montessori community. We all have the same goal. We know the benefits of a high quality Montessori education for children and their families and we know the importance of sharing what we do so well. Working together, we can be a part of the national conversation on early childhood education.

In her most recent book, Early Childhood Education for a New Era, Stacie Goffin discusses the need for the Early Childhood profession to come together with active leadership and she identifies QRIS as a "Field Unifying Strategy" to explore issues of high quality, teacher qualifications, inclusion of all ECE programs, and common standards. These are exactly the issues we are finding in our Montessori community.

Montessori Forward is an opportunity for opening conversations, for sharing information, for exploring questions, and bringing together our rich and diverse Montessori community. We have added some features recently which we hope will contribute to this goal.

You may now sign up to receive notification of new blog posts. Scroll to the bottom of the Blog page and provide your information so that you will be notified of each post. Add your comments, start a conversation, share your thoughts.

We have also added a List Serve to the website. Just click on List Serve and join our group. This is a perfect place for asking questions, sharing new information and working with others in our community who are advocating for high quality Montessori education in their state.

Collaboration is not easy. So many of  us are used to working in our "silos." But now is the time for us to reach out, to be willing to have conversations with others and to remember that we share a common goal. Let's share that commitment with one voice for Montessori.