The Montessori Method of education, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a knowledge-rich, child-centered educational approach.

Ms. Brittany, Lead Guide for the Toddler Community at Guidepost Montessori at Gambrills, offers concrete tips for how parents can bridge discipline from school to home.

Ms. Krys, Lead Guide at Guidepost Montessori Craig Ranch, shares her best tips for setting respectful limits and boundaries at home.

Hear from Blanca via @whole.child.home about how she uses Positive Discipline with her toddler at home. Rally her expertise as a Licensed Professional Counselor!

Is there a Montessori approach to discipline? What practices do Montessori guides employ in our classrooms, and is it practical and effective for parents to implement at home?

If you are a parent of two or more children of the same age, learn more about the Montessori method as it applies to parenting and education, and offer each of your children the opportunity to become fully their own irreplaceably unique best selves.

How do we as parents know what successful engagement looks like with respect to a virtual school?

A parent perspective on the role that meaningful connection has in fostering independence.

On Dr. Maria Montessori's 150th birthday, one parent shares how Montessori's work is more relevant than ever, offering meaningful solutions to the gaps that still exist across childhood development and mainstream education.

Montessori classrooms lend naturally towards today's physically-distanced precautions, but not because of the pandemic – rather, for purposeful reasons rooted in the 150-year-old Montessori Method.

Fall 2020 has been full of challenges for families to navigate, but there's also a lot of resilience and growth to be found from change. Hear from a few of our own parents on how they've adapted for this school year!

When the pandemic overturned our established school-work-home routine, I found myself caught in-between grief and relief.

Leveraging the humanism of Montessori education to fight racism.

New program prompts significant employment opportunity with 100+ openings for nannies, educators

Join us to learn about the principles behind our Montessori approach and the details of how we bring it to life – from our daily schedule, to our innovative learning platform, Altitude, to student anecdotes and work samples.

What will school look like when we are ready to return, both in terms of what the child will experience – and then secondly, the parent experience?

Guidepost Montessori has developed a bank of Montessori inspired activities to help parents continue to meet their children’s developmental needs while at home. Take a sneak peek at 11 math and language activities that you can do with your child.

In speaking with your children about Coronavirus, including preventative measures, as well as any school closures that become necessary, there are some key goals to keep in mind.

Guidepost Montessori is hosting a webinar series on Montessori, child development and parenting topics!

Making decisions about your child’s early education and care can be challenging. Now face the decision of whether or not to go back to work, stay at home, enroll their infant in daycare, hire a nanny...it’s a big decision!

Sandpaper Numerals help form the building blocks of numeracy, leading to bigger math work.

The Number Rods are a Montessori math material that expose the child to the concept of measurement.

Normalization is one of those Montessori terms that doesn't have an obvious meaning.

One of the pleasures of watching a child grow is being shocked out of taking the mundane for granted. The most ordinary things that we seemingly know without thinking and can do without trying, are, for the child, joyous challenges.

One of the first things you notice when you walk into a Montessori school is that the classrooms are not divided by age. In a Montessori classroom, you will see children of different ages working together and socializing happily.

Ask anyone, parent or not, whether they know what a “temper tantrum” is, or what the “terrible twos” are, and you can bet that they have no trouble picturing a toddler meltdown at a playground, a grocery store, or an airport.

If you're trying to figure out how to avoid temper tantrums, we'd love to help! Though the occasional meltdown during early childhood is inevitable, you can understand what causes tantrums, learn how to prevent them, and how to deal with them.

The binomial and trinomial cubes are first introduced to children as young as three, as a sensorial puzzle, but are later used by the upper elementary child to discover the formula for the cube of binomials and trinomials. A bit of Montessori magic!

What does supporting the development of your child's inner discipline look like in practice? It means discipline isn’t about taking something away; it’s about repeatedly teaching the child what to do instead.

Reading and writing are sometimes taken for granted by adults who have mastered the skills—but looking at them from a child’s perspective, they are skills of Herculean difficulty.