About David Ayer

Prominent Montessori researcher Dr. Angeline Lillard has a powerful new piece in the journal Educational Psychology Review: Shunned and Admired: Montessori, Self-Determination, and a Case for Radical School Reform

Finally, the use of data is highlighted and as process input common to all the early childhood models in question. Montessorians might have preferred direct reference to observation and record-keeping as a primary data collection mode for our classrooms, but it’s good to see our data-aware approach recognized and validated.

When I think about Montessori-inspired, I try to think back to what inspired me about Montessori in the first place—where did I first “breathe it in.” Of course I inhaled it deeply during my training, but that’s not an experience most people get to have. When I really consider it, the real inspiration came before that, the way it did for many of us—in a classroom observation. 

The Winter issue of MontessoriPublic—Print Edition is out! You can read it online here, and subscribe to a printed copy here. We mail multiple copies to public Montessori schools, one for each teacher, based […]

The Fall issue of MontessoriPublic—Print Edition is out! You can read it online here, and subscribe to a printed copy here. We mail multiple copies to public Montessori schools, one […]