| Get the latest in Montessori news and job postings, courtesy of CGMS | |  | | Studies of cursive demonstrate information retention, skill acquisition in young children | | Any kind of writing “is going to have massive benefits for the brain,” said Indiana University professor and co-author Karin James. Other studies demonstrate that students retain more information if they write their notes, instead of typing them. For all the challenges of cursive, young children acquire the skill “very fast, as soon as they get exposure,” she said. “Visual recognition during childhood is so plastic and malleable.” | | Read More → |  | | Help! What parent ed topics should I address with my Elementary students? | | Jacqueline Grundberg emphasizes a once per month parent education series that highlights screen time, the home environment and surveying parents. | | Read More → |  | | Montessori teacher and former parent celebrate 10 years after kidney transplant from her child's teacher | | North Carolina Montessori teacher Marie Molin stepped in to help the parent of one of her students by donating a kidney. The friends celebrate 10 years since the surgery. | | Read More → | | |  Train Online With a High Quality Montessori Certification Program The Center for Guided Montessori Studies offers comprehensive Montessori online training programs. Requisite certificates distributed on course completion. • Life-style Friendly
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Read More → | | | Guest Contributor Nicolas Lepine offers ideas to improve physical ed programs | Lepine offers ways to align a quality physical education program with Montessori lessons at the elementary level, including the Great Lessons, topics of global trade, pollination and more.
Read More → | | | Montessori school administrator joins international business association, attends inaugural conference. | Claudia Casco, founder and director of Maracas Montessori in North Carolina, was invited to join American Mexican Association, a non profit that strengthens collaboration between businesses and organizations in Mexico and the United States, and attended their first conference for women in Mexico.
Read More → | | | Montessori Conference brings speakers, film premiere | With the International Montessori Conference coming to the Hyatt Regency in Sarasota on November 8–11, a new documentary exploring this educational philosophy and its implementation across the United States will make its world premiere. The film, Inside Montessori, looks to take viewers inside the experience of visiting five Montessori schools, and experience what it would be like to be inside these learning environments.
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