Learning in Action
Eran Livni, co-Head of School As a Montessori middle and high school, our location in Downtown Norfolk, VA is more than an address — it’s the heart of our prepared environment for adolescents. Here, students engage in active, place-based learning. They participate in the making of the history, culture, and…
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…
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…
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…