Teaching: Daoust Sees 4 'Clusters' of Montessori Teaching Daoust's research raised some striking issues about the wide range of practices that go by the name "Montessori." How much ought teachers adapt the approach while still calling it Montessori? We asked her to explain her findings.

Normalization: Time for Cultural Sensitivity Check? Pamela Autry Maria Montessori's choices of words to describe the phenomena she observed in children were products of a particular place and time. As we experience the paradigm shift into the information age and our technologies of communication change, so will our vocabulary change.

COLUMNS When Peace Failed: The AMI-AMS Split of 1963 Lakshmi A. Kripalani Tensions between Association Montessori Internationale and its U.S affiliate, the American Montessori Society, had been building through the 1962-63 school year, with communication between Mario Montessori of AMI and Nancy McCormick Rambusch and other leaders of AMS growing increasingly pointed. In the first of this series of columns Lakshmi Kripalani recounted her preparation to leave India in 1962. In the second she described her first year as a Montessori teacher in Iowa. The recollections continue. Tools for Violence Prevention, Part II Rebecca Janke In the last issue of the Public School Montessorian we looked at 5 of the 11 programs featured in The Blueprints for Violence Prevention Initiative that have been scientifically demonstrated to reduce violence. This column looks at the remaining six which, unfortunately, are all too timely due to recent school shooting at Red Lake High School in Minnesota.

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