Suggested Reading List

Entire School

  • "The Montessori Way", Tim Seldin & Paul Epstein Ph. D.
  • "Spirit Whisperers", Chick Moorman
  • "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Stephen R. Covey
  • "Character First", Joseph W. Gauld
  • "The Biggest Job We’ll Ever Have", Laura and Malcolm Gauld
  • "Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius", Angeline Stoll Lillard

Infant and Toddler

  • "At Home with Montessori", Patricia Ortiti
  • "Montessori and Your Child – A Primer for Parents", Terry Malloy
  • "Understanding the Human Being – The Importance of the First Three Years of Life", Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro, M. D.
  • "A Child’s Home Environment", North American Montessori Teachers’ Association (Video)
  • "Essential Montessori – An Introduction to Montessori Philosophy and Education", The Michael Olaf Company (Catalogue)
  • "People Who Have Helped the World – Maria Montessori", Michael Pollard
  • "Natural Childhood", John Thomson

Primary

  • "The Child in the Family", Maria Montessori
  • "The Normalized Child", Kathleen H. Futrell

Lower Elementary

  • "Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant", Louise Bates Ames, Ph. D.
  • "Your Seven-Year-Old: Life in a Minor Key", Louise Bates Ames, Ph. D.
  • "Your Eight-Year-Old: Lively and Outgoing", Louise Bates Ames, Ph. D.
  • "Your Nine-Year-Old: Thoughtful and Mysterious", Louise Bates Ames, Ph. D.
  • "Joyful Scholars: Montessori for the Elementary Years", The Montessori Foundation (Video)
  • "Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood", Paula Polk Lillard

Upper Elementary

  • "7 Rules for Parents", Time Magazine, May 10,2004 (Article)
  • "The Montessori Adolescent: Analysis and Retrospective", North American Montessori Teachers’ Association Journal, Vol. 26, Number 3, Summer 2001 (Article)34
  • "The Absorbent Mind", Maria Montessori
  • "To Educate the Human Potential", Maria Montessori

Middle School

  • "To Educate the Human Potential", Maria Montessori
  • "The Absorbent Mind", Maria Montessori
  • "From Childhood to Adolescence", Maria Montessori
  • "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls", Mary Pipher
  • "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls", Rachel Simmons
  • "The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids", Barbara Strauch
  • "Adolescent Boys and Dealing with Sex", Ryan Orr
  • "Boys into Men", Mark Goldsteen
Toddler and Primary Elementary and Middle School