Adolescent Development
Eran Livni, co-Head of School Time is not an arbitrary schedule but an essential dimension of the prepared environment of our Montessori secondary school. In this blog, you will read how, at Roadstead, we organize the school day with patterns that form a rational framework of the time flow. With…
Eran Livni, co-head of school This blog series is about how we, the students and teachers at Roadstead Montessori Middle & High School, form one of the most fundamental components of a genuine Montessori school. This is a prepared physical as well as non-physical environment. I am going to discuss…
This is my best friend; I hate this guy so much My teachers are the best; my teachers are the worst I can’t wait to go to college; I don’t want to go to college I’m pretty; I’m ugly I’m so sad; I’m so happy Ambivalence is the Mark of…
During the 2015-2016 school year—Roadstead’s first year as an independent program (we were hatched in the previous year within Ghent Montessori Middle School)—we centered the science curriculum on a low-cost solar energy plant developed by a Norfolk-based inventor, Steve Nelson (the founder of Zenman Energy. The climax of these science…
“When students graduate from your high school, are they prepared for adult life?” This is a frequent question we hear from parents in interviews. Usually, this question implies readiness for college. I agree, for most teenagers, college is the number one expected step after high school. I will write in…