AMI Montessori Event & Visit to Village School in Romania, Fall 2026

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AMI Montessori Event & Visit to Village School in Romania, Fall 2026
During this time of Montessori work in the fall of 2026, my hostess and friend Catalina Ivan and I visited the Potângeni school in the country. Nine years ago, Lenuta, the kindergarten teacher visited the Montessori school of Iasi and attended workshops; the teachers and students from the Montessori school visited the village school; and the sharing between these two ways of educating children began.

To back up a bit, Catalina’s husband was for ten years the representative at the European Parliament in Brussels for the poor villages in this area. After these years of attempting to help his constituents through politics he discovered Montessori through a friend in Bucharest whose wife had opened a Montessori kindergarten (for ages 3-6 years) It seemed to him that supporting authentic Montessori could be more helpful to his country (and family) than politics. Continue reading →

Montessori Interview – Russia, Fall 2026

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Montessori Interview – Russia

A few months ago, I answered questions, sent from Elena Timoshenko via the internet, and the results (in Russian) are available online publication shared throughout the country. To see the original CLICK: Russian version

 

The editor added pictures that she found online and my old friend Valentina Zaytseva Nosenko, head of the Montessori School of Moscoe, helped me identify picture and make sense of the whole. Here is a picture of me with Valentina (and in the Middle Noon, one of our students in the first Montessori training center in Thailand in 2006). Here is an English version of what was published in Russia. Please share with Russian speakers anywhere.  

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Mongolia and Japan, 2026

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Mongolia
This is my third and last time in Asia as retirement approaches, and such a stunningly beautiful and interesting trip it was. The meeting with three of the four people in the whole country who hold AMI teaching diplomas, took place in a Tibetan restaurant with authentic süütei tsai—or milk tea, as popular in Mongolia as in Tibet, Sikkim, any country with a herding tradition where the daily staple was a hot drink made of yak butter, tea, and salt. Tibetan Buddhism has had a great influence in Mongolia, for example the dancing and costumes in the short video below that I took at a culture performance in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Continue reading →