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To Educate Eco-sapiens
Through story, Philip Snow Gang relates the personal to the universal, with cosmic stories that pull viewers in, calling on our shared experience of being human in a very large universe.To Educate Eco-Sapiens engages the deep questions that follow us through life and...
2018 Graduates
We interviewed some of our 2017 graduates at their graduation ceremony. Here's what they have to say. click thumbnail below to play video.
2017 Graduates
We interviewed some of our 2017 graduates at their graduation ceremony. Here's what they have to say. click thumbnail below to play video.
Alum Jessica Starman
SerendipityIsn’t life serendipitous? At pivotal moments life seems to have a way of showing us the right path if we are paying attention. Right before I started training to become a Montessori guide, I had reached a major turning point in my life. I was...
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To Educate Eco-sapiens
Through story, Philip Snow Gang relates the personal to the universal, with cosmic stories that pull viewers in, calling on our shared experience of being human in a very large universe.To Educate Eco-Sapiens engages the deep questions that follow us through life and...
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Alum Sarah Everett on Community at TIES
I have felt very connected to the TIES community. I am quite a spiritual person and so strongly believe that certain things happen for certain reasons. Just like I felt I moved to Squamish in order to find my new job in West Vancouver, I feel...
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Alum Joan Scheide on Dialogue at TIES
Bohm (1996) pointed out, “For each will hear the other through the screen of his own thoughts, which he tends to maintain and defend, regardless of whether or not they are true or coherent” (p. 3). Alertness to this tendency set the tone for the TIES dialogue,...
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Meetings with Remarkable Educators Podcast – Steven Arnold
Listen in Integrative Learning Seminars The core material and course work is presented through a series of on-line seminars where students and faculty post responses to an assigned reading (or viewing). Subsequent to the initial posting, participants comment...
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Food Eros
From Kate Hofstetter, TIES Alumna My recent learning and teaching projects have brought me into communion with natural food production. Lying in the prickly, three-inch, match weed (Phyla Nodiflora) that mats a swath of earth outside my boat, observing bees...
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Unity In Diversity
By Aimee Allen M.Ed. TIES Alum ‘05 One of the many gifts of Montessori Education is the woven threads of gratitude that infuse the classroom at all levels. As the adults in the Montessori classroom, we model for children what it means to be appreciative,...
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Reflection and Cycles
By Cristel Ruiz, M.Ed. TIES Alum ‘18Reflection, observation, pausing, and sitting in the silence... these practices nurture our spirit and broaden our mind’s capacity for understanding. They also help us see the cycles and interconnections in the world...
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Is TIES the answer for you?
I have done my Montessori training, what else is there? What is this Montessori everyone talks about? I want to do further study, but most graduate courses do not quite fit me, my lifestyle, my interests, or my work and family arrangements. Where can I go? I want to...
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Considering Transitions
Transitions are occurring everywhere, all the time. Across the Universe a star is likely being born, while another has likely just died. As I type these words, I can imagine the very beginnings of life forming on a planet lightyears away. On our own planet, life is...
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A Letter from John Fowler
Dear TIES Community, Mid-May, 2018, and a fresh two inches of snow have accumulated outside my window here in the majestic Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It’s lovely and a breath of life to a dry winter. It comes as a contemplative moment that begs the promise of a...
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Montessori and Reggio Together: Exploring Possibilities
by TIES Faculty Kathryn Ross, M.Ed. In 2005 I was hired as head of school of a Montessori school in Denver, Colorado that incorporated some of the practices of the preschools of Reggio-Emilia, Italy. I had been involved in Montessori education for years, but Reggio...
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Meetings with Remarkable Educators Podcast – Philip Snow Gang
Philip Snow Gang shares some of the golden threads from his lifelong journey as a teacher and philosopher. Integrative Learning Seminars The core material and course work is presented through a series of on-line seminars where students and faculty post responses to...
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Peace Through Education
Every year TIES hosts an online symposium titled "Peace Through Education." Interested in participating? Sign up here, and we'll keep you posted on all future events.
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Observations on the Sun’s Return
by TIES Faculty, John Fowler... Our modern story develops in synchronicity with a universe that created everything in a single incredible event, an eruption of what Swimme and Berry’s Universe Story calls “an originating power.” Echoing...
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Living Journal – Molly Smith’s Top 30 Words for Integrative Learning
2017 Graduate Molly Smith gathered her cohort's words for integrative learning: Thank you Molly! We love this list. Interconnection Awareness Application Authentic Change Enlightenment Transformation Understanding Interpersonal Conceptions Actions...
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Thomas Berry and Montessori
Coming up soon: Journey to Sacred Montessori (JSM) In this seminar we will explore such questions as: In what ways does Maria Montessori’s philosophy lead to greater awareness of the role of our human species in the maintenance of our home, the Earth? Journey to...
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“The Art of Spiritually Approaching The Child…”
"Spiritual attraction is the force that can save humanity. Instead of being merely bound by material interests we need to feel this attraction to each other. These spiritual forces always exist around us, just as the cosmic rays exist in the universe. They are the...
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Subtle Influence
School is in session and the online dialogues are flowing here at TIES. Many of us have asked ourselves how we can be of better service to our fellow humans, that we might start a “butterfly effect” and bring a bit more healing and peace to the planet. John Briggs and...
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From Steven Arnold, TIES Faculty
Peace as Equilibrium Greetings from New Zealand. As a TIES adjunct faculty and a University Lecturer in Montessori here in New Zealand, it is exciting to share our times in TIES with you. Over the last few weeks I have been in India visiting relatives, family and...
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