Forest Bluff School

6 min read 2022-01-16 00:51:54

What is Essential?: Moving Forward in a Pandemic

Submitted by Margaret J. Kelley I know I am not the only person who has re-defined the meaning of the word “essential” during

7 min read 2021-12-09 03:56:12

Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack “Have faith in the child.” I am not sure where to cite Dr. Maria Montessori saying this

1 min read 2021-11-02 02:42:32

Submitted by Paula Polk Lillard (Edits and contributions by Margaret J. Kelley) We have begun this school year with a renewed

1 min read 2021-10-19 01:27:05

Submitted by Margaret J. Kelley Infants & Toddlers: 0-3 Perhaps there is no greater leap in development that a human

1 min read 2021-09-28 19:52:14

Submitted by Laura Earls The past year and a half has brought about so many feelings in all of us: fear, uncertainty, sadness,

1 min read 2021-08-25 10:07:29

Submitted by Laura Earls (Based on her AMI Conference Presentation) Edits and Contributions by Margaret Kelley An Interrelated

1 min read 2021-07-10 06:39:28

Submitted by Margaret Kelley Every fall, the Montessori Secondary Level students at Forest Bluff School head to the north woods

1 min read 2021-05-13 03:04:28

Submitted by Margaret Kelley “They had no idea how much their lives would change.” This thought has been uttered thousands of

5 min read 2021-04-20 02:22:07

Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack I love finding ways that Montessori’s educational approach inherently addresses human

8 min read 2021-03-12 08:50:16

Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack When transcribing notes from a recent alumni panel discussion, I realized that two words

7 min read 2021-02-02 02:45:11

Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack & John Dickson Music Lifts Us Up! Those of us working in Forest Bluff’s office

4 min read 2020-12-18 23:45:43

Submitted by Margaret J. Kelley After a difficult spring, we have enjoyed a summer of relative normalcy and freedom in Illinois.

9 min read 2020-11-18 23:53:17

Submitted by Margaret J. Kelley A Montessori parent reflects on the past year and shares how challenging times offer us an

10 min read 2020-10-17 20:07:20

Submitted by Paula Lillard Preschlack We are immensely grateful that this fall, our Secondary Level adolescents were able to go

8 min read 2020-09-29 22:12:12

Submitted by Margaret Kelley The Forest Bluff lunch is a quintessential Montessori experience that builds responsibility,