Montessori the Roadstead Way

Unlock the Montessori Method at Roadstead Montessori High School – inspiring lifelong learners through hands-on education.

The Montessori Prepared Environment for Adolescents 2: Routine Time Cycles

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…

The Montessori Prepared Environment for Adolescents 1: Setting Up a Community

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…

The Montessori Prepared Environment for Adolescents 3: A Study of Place – Downtown Norfolk, VA

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…

How We Practice Montessori Pedagogy

Focus On Individual Progress and Development Students progress at their own pace, moving on to the next step in each area of the curriculum when they are ready. Each student is viewed as a distinct individual for the purpose of assessment and educational program planning. We, the teachers, observe the…