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    • 2025 Fall Issue
    • Articles
      • The Public Montessori Movement
      • Classroom and school practice
      • Montessori organizations
      • Research
    • Featured Schools
    • Montessori in Your State
      • Columns One
        • Alabama
        • Alaska
        • Arizona
        • Arkansas
        • California
        • Colorado
        • Connecticut
        • Delaware
        • District of Columbia
        • Florida
        • Georgia
        • Hawaii
        • Idaho
      • Columns Two
        • Illinois
        • Indiana
        • Iowa
        • Kansas
        • Kentucky
        • Louisiana
        • Maine
        • Maryland
        • Massachusetts
        • Michigan
        • Minnesota
        • Mississippi
        • Missouri
      • Columns Three
        • Montana
        • Nebraska
        • Nevada
        • New Hampshire
        • New Jersey
        • New Mexico
        • New York
        • North Carolina
        • North Dakota
        • Ohio
        • Oklahoma
        • Oregon
        • Pennsylvania
      • Columns Four
        • Rhode Island
        • South Carolina
        • South Dakota
        • Tennessee
        • Texas
        • Utah
        • Vermont
        • Virginia
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    David Ayer

    David worked in private Montessori for more than twenty years as a parent, three-to-six year-old and adolescent teacher, administrator, writer, speaker, and advocate. In 2016 he began working with the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector. David lives in Portland, Oregon.





    Changing the Montessori narrative
    David Ayer November 4, 2022

    5/26/2022 • Lawrence, KS • New Montessori online bibliography hosted at the University of Kansas
    David Ayer May 26, 2022

    Montessori on the move in Denver
    David Ayer May 13, 2022


    Who cares about Maria Montessori?
    David Ayer May 13, 2022
    The public Montessori landscape

    Montessori programs sprout and blossom
    David Ayer May 13, 2022
    New York Elementary viewed from the front

    5/11/22 • Lawrence, Kansas • New Montessori program in Lawrence Public Schools
    David Ayer May 12, 2022


    4/14/2022 • Annapolis, MD • Montessori training approved for state licensure
    David Ayer April 19, 2022

    New Study: Montessori Education Just Might Promote Adult Wellbeing
    David Ayer January 25, 2022

    Montessori and Head Start
    David Ayer November 14, 2021


    Angeline Lillard on Montessori and play
    David Ayer November 12, 2021

    Teacher spotlight: Tatenda Blessing Muchiriri
    David Ayer November 12, 2021

    Montessori as a reading intervention
    David Ayer November 12, 2021


    Libertas surges to success in Memphis
    David Ayer November 11, 2021

    Adding Montessori primary to a District K-5
    David Ayer November 11, 2021

    Bezos Academies are up and running
    Michael Abello and 1 more November 11, 2021

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