By Aimee Allen M.Ed. TIES Alum ‘05 Modeling for children 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...
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 around us. As a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 mystics, physicists, poets, and...
From Steven Arnold, TIES Faculty 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...
From Kathryn Ross, TIES Faculty "Every single morning we have the choice to be open to the creativity of chaos, open to the world around us, open to the possibility that we can make our lives afresh...” ~John Briggs & F. David Peat, The Seven Life Lessons of Chaos...