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Higher Ground Education Announces the Acquisition of Tinycare
The leading provider of Montessori education, today announced it has acquired Tinycare, a network of in-home, Montessori-inspired micro-daycare centers that serve infants and toddlers
Higher Ground Education Announces the Acquisition of NeighborSchools
The acquisition will bring a new wave of innovative childcare resources.
Why Montessori Matters
A Guidepost parent tells us why Montessori has been the best educational path for her son.
Get to Know Guidepost Montessori: Our Programs, Our Community, Our Pedagogy
New to Guidepost? Start here. In this guide, we’ll break down our top resources that share our commitment to exceptional Montessori learning at school, in-home, and around the world, from birth through adulthood.
Control of error
Let’s observe a child together. This is Alice, my daughter. She’s 2y8m. She just woke up from a good night’s sleep. She has found some metal measuring cups stacked on the coffee table. About five minutes before I started recording, she disassembled the stack and separated them, and she’s been trying to reassemble them since. Let’s watch the last three minutes of her work. What do you notice?
An early advantage
We spend a lot of effort teaching toddlers a clever way to put on their own jackets. Why bother?
Columbus Day vs. Indigenous Peoples’ Day
That these are still-contested, competing political holidays make it quite difficult for educators to approach this day successfully as school holidays. For older students, it’s a good opportunity to think about the controversy, which is great—but it makes for an odd holiday, which are usually about community celebration and rituals that exemplify shared values. I don’t have any conclusive, systematic answers as to the best way to approach this Monday in October in our schools. I think probably this day just needs to be completely rethought in an educational context. But I do have a few thoughts.
Would you intervene?
Montessori thought that there are many ways to “help” a child that are, in fact, useless or even harmful to development. Children need a great deal of independence, including the space to struggle, to achieve, to be frustrated, to get discouraged, or even to be (non-grievously) injured. How should we, as educators, as caretakers, judge how and when to intervene?
Two principles of parent engagement
By applying what amount to Montessori principles with parents themselves, we position ourselves to keep children in our classrooms—to educate them longer, more effectively, and more joyfully.
Higher Ground's Lanterns
Education is done with a view to the good life. Drawing from Montessori, we offer five lanterns, five constant and guiding values, for understanding what constitutes a good human life: knowledge, work, agency, and trade, all adding up to a life fully lived.
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