Work in the USA/Canada

Sharing international Montessori work with children back in the USA

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Some years ago, when returning from work in Morocco, it was wonderful to be able to share some of what I had learned with children in a Montessori school here at home. I hope you enjoy it and perhaps share it with your own children and students.

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Above is a picture of my daughter Ursula during the Morocco presentation shared with her two children and other students at Childpeace Montessori School in Portland, Oregon. I had been working at a Montessori school in Casablanca, and then traveling through Morocco with my hostess and her family. My grandson’s Montessori teacher in Oregon teacher asked if I would share some of this experience with the children as I would be stopping in Portland, Oregon on the way back to California. So I prepared a “Moroccan” experience based on the study of the physical needs of humans. Continue reading →

Joyous Celebration with Adele Diamond, 4 Special Days in Vancouver, BC

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Joyous Celebration with Neuroscientist Adele Diamond,
4 Special Days in Vancouver, BC

This was the most amazing and generous and important gathering I have ever attended. Adele Diamond invited 500 friends and colleagues from 41 countries to join her for several days of sharing and making connections. 90 members of the group gave 15-30 minute presentations over the four days. We all paid our own transportation and hotel and Adele fed us all for the entire event! Here is the description of the gathering in her words: Continue reading →

AMI Annual Global Meeting 2023 and San Francisco Infant Community

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In April the first in-person AGM since the Covid epidemic was held in Delft, Netherlands. Here are just a few of the highlights of the focus on “Sowing Seeds” projects around the world seen by 250 people from 50 different countries.

The first day was sunny and beautiful, people seated outside the cafes and restaurants. Above you can see Catalina Ivan(the picture taken by her husband) from Romania, and Joanne Kaya, a Welsh Montessori teacher I met in Moscow years ago, and with whom I am staying this week in a village nearby. Continue reading →