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    • 2026 Spring 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
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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.





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    Lessons learned at Tobin in Cambridge
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    New public Montessori landscape report
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