Academic Life
This blog post is about a Montessori study of our school’s home place: Downtown Norfolk, VA. Being a Montessori study, it is an active process of learning through participation. David Kahn, the leader of the Montessori adolescent movement, writes that, for Montessori middle and high schools, “[p]lace inspires belonging. Place…
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Roadstead students learn in literature seminar how to understand the reasons that bring people to ban books in the US
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Dominique Sapozhnikov Schmieder Dominique will be attending the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall, with a focus on Engineering Exploration in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Dom earned a Presidential Scholarship and a Recognition Scholarship. In thinking about the move to the Rochester, New York, area, Dom’s immediate…
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On a hot September afternoon in 2020, we sat under the tents of our outdoor classroom for a history seminar session. We were there, rather than inside the school building, because this was the safest possible in-person education during the COVID-19 pandemic. We were set to discuss our first primary…
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What is the point of creating art in the first place? Is it really worth anything? Does it add to your life? Does it add to society as a whole? Why make it part of any curriculum? Whenever grown ups fear that children aren’t learning enough, the arts are the…
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Hello, I am Claudia and I am the writing and literature literature teacher at Roadstead Montessori High School. In this blog I will tell you about how I developed my love of learning and teaching words. I will also tell you how my writer life converses with my role as…
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