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Having a chance to prep for a new unit always sends me down a learning rabbit hole. I’ve spent the week exploring the continental shifts that divided Africa and South America and identifying the fundamental differences and the evolutionary changes that caused ostriches and emus to lose flight on two different continents. The current plate tectonics that are creating a rift in eastern Africa play into the works, too.

 

 

Doing this research brings us back to the fundamentals and is the reason behind the appeal of Montessori learning for me as a teacher. If we can continue

Having a chance to prep for a new unit always sends me down a learning rabbit hole. I’ve spent the week exploring the continental shifts that divided Africa and South America and identifying the fundamental differences and the evolutionary changes that caused ostriches and emus to lose flight on two different continents. The current plate tectonics that are creating a rift in eastern Africa play into the works, too.

Doing this research brings us back to the fundamentals and is the reason behind the appeal of Montessori learning for me as a teacher. If we can continue to revel in the learning, the children will as well.

Some of the challenge about finding information about the earliest civilizations in Africa via English language websites is another reason that Montessori appeals to me. We are a fundamentally social justice-based learning environment based on Maria Montessori’s own works. Just look:

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

MARIA MONTESSORI

to revel in the learning, the children will as well.

 

 

Some of the challenge about finding information about the earliest civilizations in Africa via English language websites is another reason that Montessori appeals to me. We are a fundamentally social justice-based learning environment based on Maria Montessori’s own works. Just look:

 

 

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

 

 

MARIA MONTESSORI

 

Having a chance to prep for a new unit always sends me down a learning rabbit hole. I’ve spent the week exploring the continental shifts that divided Africa and South America and identifying the fundamental differences and the evolutionary changes that caused ostriches and emus to lose flight on two different continents. The current plate tectonics that are creating a rift in eastern Africa play into the works, too.

Doing this research brings us back to the fundamentals and is the reason behind the appeal of Montessori learning for me as a teacher. If we can continue to revel in the learning, the children will as well.

Some of the challenge about finding information about the earliest civilizations in Africa via English language websites is another reason that Montessori appeals to me. We are a fundamentally social justice-based learning environment based on Maria Montessori’s own works. Just look:

An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

MARIA MONTESSORI
Education for Peace

We must look to the children as a vehicle for bringing change to humanity.

Maria Montessori 
1946 London Lectures, p. 108

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Activate

There are many different things we do during the week or month. Some are actively chosen, some are happenstance when we go with the flow, and some are habit. Something else happens when you are acted upon. What about when another person’s habit acts upon you, and you have to go through your life responding or reacting to the habits of others. Among the many things that happen is exhaustion.

I was fortunate enough to visit the AMS Traveling Symposium today and to hear Amira Mogaji talk about the differences between Critical Race Theory and Culturally Responsive Teaching.

Arguably, both are very important, but CRT is not a curriculum, rather it’s an acknowledgement of the systems that support racism and the way those systems are woven into daily life. On the other hand, Culturally Responsive Teaching means to support all children knowing they each have their own culture and backgrounds and families that they are coming from.

My notes from this talk include so many important resources and notes. What it also did was mix in my mind with Gay Ward’s talk about action research. I started thinking about Popov’s virtues and the way that they can be employed to support all children better.

My next step is to read more, examine my own biases, and to actively work to deconstruct stereotypes. This not new. This is a re-commitment.