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.

Blanca, a Guidepost Parent, shares her perspective of incorporating Montessori at Home with her toddler via her Instagram account, @whole.child.home. We have pulled a few excerpts to feature here in our Montessori at Home video series!

With civil unrest permeating the news cycle, and the national conversation swirling around discrimination, brutality, and race, your elementary child is bound to have questions, even if they are not voiced.

Has your family begun to implement the Family Framework at home? We are sharing some ideas from parents about how this can look in your home with DIY Montessori materials to workspace tours.

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?

How do children’s needs change during this period of growth, and how should learning – especially if delivered virtually during today’s circumstances – cater to the elementary child?

As families respond to the newest orders to slowly return back to work in some states, more workers will qualify for the Emergency Childcare for Essential Workers program. Learn more about how the program has already helped many families!

Many parents know Berenice from her time teaching in toddler communities, doing parent consultations with Monti Kids, and online from co-running the Montessori Toddler Facebook community. Now, she's helping families implement Montessori at home!

One of the most popular questions parents have with our new Parent Concierge service is how to prepare their children's home spaces using Montessori's principles of a Prepared Environment. Joel Mendes of the Prepared Montessorian shares his tips!

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.

A Q&A with Lisa Kathleen, AMI-trained Educator, Parent Coach and manager with Higher Ground Education’s Prepared Montessorian Team

Working to become a more prepared parent is not rooted in trying to achieve more than is possible, but it is rooted in optimism that – with a ton of grace – we can redirect what energy we do have to make the most of this situation we are in.

Enforcing a week-day routine that is distinguishable from our weekend routine is essential, but I’ve realized that sticking to a new routine is only successful if I can identify the limits and boundaries that will bring consistency to our routine.

What are the silver linings? Here are seven simple practices for making this challenging time more manageable for parents and children.

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!

In elementary, children can analyze, compare, contrast, determine relationships, identify patterns, and recombine those concepts and images into novel ideas using their imaginations and intellects.

An enticing box full of tiny stamps and several ink pads of different shades are a staple on the geography shelf of any Montessori elementary classroom.

The term Montessori is not trademarked. So Guidepost Montessori prides itself on hiring guides, retaining guides and offering ongoing professional development to deliver an authentic Montessori education.

As someone who offers leadership development for university professionals and is a father to a Montessori child, Alex has a unique perspective on the value of Montessori and how it prepares children for the workforce of the future.

The calm orderliness of the child from birth to 6 years old gives way to the elementary-age child with a fully formed social personality that craves interaction.

Maria Montessori deeply understood the great power of storytelling across cultures when devising her method for the elementary child.

At Guidepost Montessori, we train our educators and continue to support their professional growth.

Montessori parent Jenna Wawrzyniec describes what it's like to work full time and raise Montessori children.

The work journal is a booklet, notebook, diary, or composition book that the elementary child uses to keep his own work records. He typically notes the time he started an activity and the name of it.

The smooth, shiny, vibrant geometric solids beckon from the shelves of any Children’s House or Montessori Elementary classroom.

There is so much more Montessori can offer the older child that builds on the excellent preparation your child has received in the Children’s House.

Small, interactive group work provides an exceptional learning experience for Montessori students.

Dolores Murgolo and Tomeka Bostic helped to opened two Guidepost schools together in North Carolina.

Video: Salem Islas-Madlo is an Assistant Guide in Vienna and offers bilingual lessons

Many parents experienced rote memorization in their own childhood education, but Montessori can offer a path for more meaningful learning.

Grammar Boxes take up a lot of real estate on the language shelves of a Montessori elementary classroom, and for good reason!

Mother to third-grade student in Vienna appreciates bilingual international concept: 'We were very lucky to come across Guidepost Montessori.'

The field trip — a museum tour, a historical site, perhaps a live show at a theater — is a quintessential part of the school experience.

One of the most important tasks for a Montessori guide is to foster independence in her students. This crucial skill is taught to children in every community, from Nido to Elementary.

One of the ways to make Montessori concepts more familiar is to place them in a modern workplace setting.

In a Montessori elementary classroom, there is a hum of activity and collaboration. Learn about group lessons, going out, cooking activities and more from this engaged community of learners.

Guest columnist Ms. Castillo, an Upper Elementary Lead Guide at Hollywood Beach, offers insight on welcoming conflict and teaching children the skills needed to resolve it independently.

Learn about a collection of stories that are presented in the beginning of the school year in elementary classrooms.

How do you know if your child is suitable for Montessori? Why does Montessori not have homework? What is your child learning in a Montessori classroom? Learn all about this century-old, child-centered method of education.

We're eager to catch up with our children after an exciting school day, but acknowledge that the child needs to decompress, recharge, and take a deep breath, too.

Guidepost Montessori offers your child an exceptionally personalized learning experience, meeting your child where they are, and guiding them to where they want to be.

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.

Separation anxiety can be troublesome for both the parent and the child, but it doesn’t have to be this way! Parents deserve to trust our children are in the right place, so before you approach mornings in fear, start here.

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

Children seek independence from a very young age. How can we, as parents, guardians or educators, aid them in their quest to "do it by themselves?"

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.