The Anxious Generation: Helping Students Cope with Modern Stress
College students are experiencing all-time high rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality, according to the latest Healthy Minds...
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Field Studies that Ignite Curiosity in Teens
Education is not confined to the four walls of a classroom. At least, not at Quadrat Academy. We believe in the power of experiential...
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Nurturing Young Entrepreneurs
How Our Montessori Approach Fosters Teen Innovators In a world driven by innovation and entrepreneurship, cultivating these skills in the...
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Transformations: Montessori & Stage Theory
Trees start out small and then generally keep their form as they get progressively bigger and stronger. Children, however, change so much...
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Adolescence: Time of Transformation
Adolescents have such power and potential. They can achieve so much when they have a supportive space that helps them develop their...
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What is the Montessori Three-Year Cycle?
In Montessori, children typically enter a classroom as the youngest children and then stay in the same learning community for at least...
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Mutual Respect & Making Deposits
Montessori classrooms depend upon a web of mutual respect. This culture of respect is established from the very beginning: from how the...
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What’s a Work Period? Your Questions Answered
The mind takes some time to develop interest, to be set in motion, to get warmed up into a subject, to attain a state of profitable work....
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The Legacy of Dr. Maria Montessori
To honor Dr. Maria Montessori’s birthday on August 31, we want to reflect back on her life and her profound influence on how we see and...
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Beyond the Classroom: Montessori Extending Into Adulthood
Montessori: it’s not just for children. What was originally created as an educational model for preschoolers in Italy has expanded...
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Why Switch to Montessori?
There are many different reasons why families choose Montessori for their student. Some enroll when their child is young and stay the...
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How to Meet Your Teens Where They Are
Adolescence is an amazing time in our lives. Everything is changing, everything feels new, and the future stretches out before us like a...
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Why we still need EdTech, even when we head back to the classroom.
Our encounters with COVID-19 have been a rollercoaster, yet luckily, schools across Philadelphia were able to resume in-person learning...
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Inviting Art Into Your Home
"If we try to think back to the dim and distant past... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of...
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Maria Montessori Quotes That Give Us Perspective
Dr. Maria Montessori was a scientist and physician, first and foremost. She stumbled her way into education when she observed the...
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Inclusivity in the Montessori Classroom
Montessori is a method of education as well as a general philosophy on human development. If we could summarize it into one sentence it...
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The Power of Choice - In and Out of the Classroom
Freedom and discipline. Independence and security. Choice and boundaries. The adolescent years are a glorious zig-zag from left to right...
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The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom
By Rick Reis. Originally in the newsletter Speaking of Teaching (Vol 13, No. 1) from Stanford University. Reposted with permission from...
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The Power of Self-Advocacy
A big part of becoming a successful, independent member of society is being able to advocate for oneself. We all need to know our own...
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How to Raise a Resilient Child
Resiliency, or the ability to recover after periods of hardship or difficulty, is a critical skill for us all to have. There are so many...
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What kind of learning do you value?
Human beings are creatures of habit. Habits are comfortable, and it is generally easier to continue doing things the way they have always...
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Is Montessori Right for Your Teen?
Montessori education is a “whole child” approach to teaching that encompasses all areas of child development—cognitive, emotional,...
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The Preparation of the Teacher
There are so many ways in which Montessori education stands apart from other traditional methods. One of the most stark is the way in...
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Moments of Joy Amidst the Challenges
Growing up during a global pandemic is a challenge. For that matter, so is parenting and educating children during this time. How can we...
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