Collectively Renewing Montessori: An Invitation
Watch our video to learn more.
This is a collection of ABAR (anti-bias, antiracist) practices and how they can best be reflected in the Montessori environment.
The preparation of the adult is a key prerequisite.
Read the welcome section.
Read Montessori Theory and Practice through an ABAR lens.
Read Culturally Responsive Classroom Practices
“I want to talk about the ages of racism like we talk about the stone age. I want to build a world where the extinction of this lie and harm is told like an old story. I want to see it in my lifetime.”
Welcome! Our story begins with a group of Montessorians, who, like many groups of Montessorians, gathered to discuss ABAR (anti-bias, antiracist) practices and how they can best be reflected in the Montessori environment.
This group went through many variations of size, participation, and purpose, and finally decided to start by creating an ebook outlining some considerations for the beginning of the school year, which is the book that will soon be in your (virtual) hands.
Every single day, the world continues to show us that Black and Brown students, disabled and LGBTQIA learners, and any other children sitting on the margins are not worthy and valued. Every single day, we get to choose to uphold this unconscionable lie or disrupt it. We are the keepers of our learners’ educational journey. Our commitment to ABAR Montessori education is what binds our collective work together and we should not take our cosmic task lightly. As racism and bias continue to live in our society, this will keep us grounded, and focused on our vision for a better world for our children.
Conversations like ours are going on in many different Montessori spaces, and we are happy to be one part of those conversations, along with you.
