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TOP PICKS

American Montessori Society: (AMS) Content includes the basics of Montessori education, what we know about whether Montessori education works, public Montessori, about the American Montessori Society, AMS position paper, Montessori links, and new Montessori items.
Association Montessori Internationale: (AMI) was founded in 1929 by Dr. Maria Montessori to maintain the integrity of her life's work and to ensure it would be perpetuated after her death. Activities include providing guidance for AMI training courses, coordinating a Training of Teachers program, encouraging the creation of Montessori schools , guiding approved manufacturers in the production of Montessori materials, overseeing the publication of Dr. Montessori's books, and organizing congresses and study conferences.
The Montessori Teacher's Collective: is Don Jennings' dedicated mission to prolong the fellowship experienced at Montessori seminars and conferences AND preserve the humor and positivity of Montessori teachers everywhere. Discussion, icons, links, stories, ideas and more!
Nienhuis Montessori USA: makes high quality, durable, and long lasting Montessori materials. They offer books and publications, furniture, and classroom materials and supplies. They have been serving public and private schools worldwide for over 65 years. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can view and print their Price List and Order Form.
Our-Montessori: is a project of Montessori ethusiast, Brian Sutherland. In addition to his popular Montessori resources, the site contains free online Montessori games in Shockwave, including the stamp game, the Beads and Skittles division game, large bead frame, checkerboard, and others as well as PDF's of commonly used Montessori classroom documents.

MONTESSORI ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

American Montessori Society: (AMS) Content includes the basics of Montessori education, what we know about whether Montessori education works, public Montessori, about the American Montessori Society, AMS position paper, Montessori links, and new Montessori items.
Association Montessori Internationale: (AMI) was founded in 1929 by Dr. Maria Montessori to maintain the integrity of her life's work and to ensure it would be perpetuated after her death. Activities include providing guidance for AMI training courses, coordinating a Training of Teachers program, encouraging the creation of Montessori schools , guiding approved manufacturers in the production of Montessori materials, overseeing the publication of Dr. Montessori's books, and organizing congresses and study conferences.
International Montessori Society: IMS was founded in 1979 to support the effective application of Montessori principles throughout the world. The Society provides a broad range of programs, services, and support for Montessori education. It publishes two newsletters entitled "Montessori Observer" and "Montessori News", which are provided free to members of the Society. Samples are available upon request.
Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education: is an autonomous, international, nonprofit postsecondary accrediting agency for Montessori teacher training programs.
The Montessori Foundation: is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Montessori education in United States and abroad. Contents include a school directory, classifieds, articles and resources, a bookstore, and a Montessori professional registry. The Foundation publishes the Tomorrow's Child Magazine.
Montessori Institute of America: is a non-profit corporation enjoying over twenty-five years of service and welcomes the opportunity to share some information about themselves.
Montessori Institute of Advanced Studies: located in California, prepares Montessori teachers with a deep grounding in The Montessori Philosophy. They are located in California.
Montessori Unlimited: an affiliation of Montessori schools that offer you and your child an authentic Montessori program that is 100% true to the foundation of the Montessori philosophy.
National Center for Montessori Education: offers supportive guidelines to assist Montessorians in establishing Teacher Education Institutes. They extend opportunities to all Montessorians to exchange information and experience through their quarterly journal, "The Reporter."
North American Montessori Teachers Association: (NAMTA) is an organization of Montessori teachers, administrators, and interested parents throughout North America. It provides practical services that benefit teachers and administrators in their everyday activities. It also helps parents to better understand Montessori concepts and to extend the Montessori environment into their homes. NAMTA offers a professional development event called The Montessori Academy every summer.
The Seacoast Center: provides information, moral support, and teacher certification programs for persons interested in teaching in Montessori 6-9 and 9-12 classrooms.
The Washington Montessori Institute at Loyola College: offers the M.Ed. in Montessori Education for Montessori Primary and Elementary. It is located at Loyola's new Graduate Center in Timonium, Maryland.

INFORMATION/RESOURCES

Big Picture Science: provides learning materials for Montessori teachers, help with WHAT to teach, current science information and resources, a quarterly newsletter AND a place to take your questions about science teaching.
International Montessori Index: offers guidance and direction to those who are seeking true Montessori. It contains information for parents and teachers, practical suggestions for using Montessori philosophy in homes and classrooms, links to Montessori schools, conference lectures, teacher training courses, organizations, educational materials, and other valuable sites.
Michael Olaf Publications: provide practical advice for using Montessori information in all kinds of settings, for children from birth to age twelve and beyond. They are also catalogues of developmentally appropriate, Montessori approved, books and materials for children and their adults.
Michael's Montessori Links to the Internet: A large collection of links to Montessori sites around the world, mailing lists, and other educational resources.
MontessoriConnections: "The Web Site of the Montessori Community"
Montessori For Moms: is a collection of many of Sibyl Carroll's most requested training guides for home schooling using the Montessori method. The complete lesson plans are available for both home schooling and classroom teaching. The detailed lesson plans are presented in outline format, making their use simple and easy.
Montessori for the Earth and Home: is a home-based not-for-profit program, aims to offer information to parents and educators through distance learning on how to incorporate Montessori philosophy and education at home and in the classroom. We stress the child's environment in the education and development of the young child, as Maria Montessori has stressed the classroom environment and its structure and content. We feel this focus on the child's home and classroom environment (and its structure and content) is what is seriously lacking in most parenting and educational handbooks and how-to books for early childhood.
Montessori Homeschooling: This page is created by a family who has been using the Montessori principles to homeschool for more than thirty years.
Montessori Net: This site is presently under construction. It will slowly take shape and provide a source of information to those interested in Montessori education.
The Montessori Page: is a most interesting Montessori idea focusing on Bobby, a white toy gorilla!
The Montessori Teacher's Collective: is Don Jennings' dedicated mission to prolong the fellowship experienced at Montessori seminars and conferences AND preserve the humor and positivity of Montessori teachers everywhere. Discussion, icons, links, stories, ideas and more!
Montessori World LTD: offers a variety of products and services for Montessori schools. This Web Site aims to provide Montessori teachers with a means to share ideas, help one another, and stay in touch with the latest developments. Contents include a teachers club, computer software, Montessori news, job listings, and advice on starting your own Montessori school.

PUBLICATIONS/MATERIALS

American Montessori Consulting: offers a free online newsletter. It is filled with valuable Web Site information, teaching tips, software reviews, book reviews, and other resource information for teachers and parents.
Cabdev Montessori: is a customer-focused company that has been supplying Montessori Learning Materials, throughout Canada and the United States, since 1972.
Jola Publications: Publishes the periodical Public School Montessorian and an annual Montessori Community Directory, a comprehensive listing of hundreds of schools across the U.S., as well as organizations, teacher education centers, publications, materials suppliers, and other resources for Montessori education.
Montessori 'n Such: provides materials for public and private early childhood programs, home schooling programs, and parents and teachers. They offer both traditional Montessori materials and unique manipulative toys for ages 6 months to 12 years. Their products include exercises for all areas of the classroom, after school programs, gifts for parents, teachers, and children.
Montessori Solutions: is dedicated to providing select quality materials which can be finished by hand.
The Phonetic Reading Program from California: is a program designed as a series of boxes each of which focuses on an essential beginning phonic skill used in reading. It offers broad selections of skills so that children progress at an encouraging pace along the road to independent reading.
Post Oak Company: supplies educational materials, particularly fine Montessori writing papers and booklets designed to enhance children's handwriting, ages 3 to 13. All the materials have been developed in consultation with AMI and other MACTE-approved institutions.

MANUFACTURERS

Bruins Montessori International USA: Bruins Montessori products are made from quality, exotic Sri Lanka hardwood combined with premium grade European Birch plywood, hardwood and paints. They offer a wide range of classroom materials.
Juliana Group: The World's Largest Distributor of Montessori Materials & Montessori Classroom Furniture.
The Materials Company of Boston: is the only U.S. manufacturer that supplies a complete classroom of 3-6 Montessori materials and furniture.
Montessori Services: specializes is providing hard-to-find, child-size Practical Life materials for schools and homes. They've been doing so for more than twenty three years.
Nienhuis Montessori USA: makes high quality, durable, and long lasting Montessori materials. They offer books and publications, furniture, and classroom materials and supplies. They have been serving public and private schools worldwide for over 65 years. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can view and print their Price List and Order Form.

MISCELLANEOUS

DisPlay School: produces quality educational software aimed at helping children develop at their fullest potential in today's "computer age".
Montessori Software: Montessori Educational Computer Systems produces a unique line of Montessori-based, fully interactive, multimedia programs. These programs are tested and approved by Tomorrow's Child Magazine.
Our-Montessori: is a project of Montessori ethusiast, Brian Sutherland. In addition to his popular Montessori Resources, the site contains free online Montessori games in Shockwave, including the stamp game, the Beads and Skittles division game, large bead frame, checkerboard, and others as well as PDF's of commonly used Montessori classroom documents.
Read 'n' Act: is a collection of short scripts written especially for elementary students. The scripts were initially written to provide students with incentive and encouragement to read.

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