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Friday Note: Being the village
Happy Friday, everyone. Our sacred mission at Higher Ground is to help children realize their immense potential as human beings. As an important aspect…
Apr 20
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Ray Girn
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Content is king
Happy Friday everyone, Have you ever heard the idea that we don’t need to learn “facts” anymore, because we can just google them any time? Or that we…
Apr 12
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Ray Girn
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Before you start your Montessori training
There are six key things you should know before you start your Montessori certification training. It isn’t an ordinary experience, and, to be honest…
Apr 5
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Joel Mendes
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March 2024
Good morning
Happy Friday, everyone. Consider three simple vignettes: three mornings of three students in three Guidepost classrooms. 1. Alex is 10 months old. He…
Mar 29
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Matt Bateman
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Good morning
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Repetition without repetition
Happy Friday, everyone. In Montessori classrooms, children repeat exercises with the materials. Sometimes dozens of times in one sitting and hundreds of…
Mar 22
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Matt Bateman
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Of Dishes and Dreams
I’m happy to have the chance to be the one to write you some weekly thoughts this Friday! I thought I would share on a topic that is close to my heart…
Mar 15
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Rebecca Girn
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Does Montessori rush child development?
Happy Friday, everyone. A common critique of the Montessori approach is that it pushes kids to grow up too fast. People see infants drinking from open…
Mar 9
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Samantha Blaisdell
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Celebrating 8 years of Higher Ground
Hi everyone, Higher Ground Education will mark its eighth anniversary tomorrow, on March 2nd, 2024. Yesterday, I attended a Celebration of Knowledge…
Mar 2
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Ray Girn
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February 2024
Four lanterns to guide us
Happy Friday, everyone. Montessori held that, fundamentally, education is “an aid to life.” “Education”, she wrote, “is the help we must give to life so…
Feb 24
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Matt Bateman
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Devotion to excellence, part 2
Happy Friday, everyone. In last week’s note, we talked about the idea of excellence as a necessity. “Just surviving”, or any form of settling for less…
Feb 16
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Ray Girn
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Devotion to excellence, part 1
Hi all, The following is a (lightly modified) excerpt of a talk I gave a few years ago to school leaders on excellence. Next week I’ll send along…
Feb 10
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Ray Girn
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Our "our policy" policy
Hi all, In our approach to children, our emphasis is on understanding the particulars that make an individual child unique. This doesn’t mean we just…
Feb 3
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Ray Girn
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