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Flack, Isabelle – Online Submission, 2022
Environmental education, a growing field, is recognized as a crucial element in combating climate change for current and future generations. Although environmental education seeks to offer children a holistic worldview of nature while striving to inspire young thinkers, it is missing from most classrooms, specifically Montessori schools. The…
Descriptors: Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Natural Resources, Outdoor Education
Culclasure, Brooke T.; Fleming, David J.; Riga, Ginny – Online Submission, 2018
With support from the Self Family Foundation and the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee, the Riley Institute has completed a multi-year study of Montessori education in South Carolina's public schools, the most comprehensive evaluation of public Montessori ever conducted in the United States. Between 2011 and 2016, this mixed-method…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Public Schools
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Lillard, Angeline S.; Heise, Megan J.; Richey, Eve M.; Tong, Xin; Hart, Alyssa; Bray, Paige M. – Online Submission, 2017
Quality preschool programs that develop the whole child through age-appropriate socioemotional and cognitive skill-building hold promise for significantly improving child outcomes. However, preschool programs tend to either be teacher-led and didactic, or else to lack academic content. One preschool model that involves both child-directed, freely…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Montessori Schools, Montessori Method, Preschool Children