AMI Seeks Support for Montessori Centenary Declaration

Michael Dorer

EL BOLETIN

News From The Regions: Mexico, Central America, and South America

Districts Weighing Future of Montessori Programs

A proposal to the South Bend (IN) Community School Corporation to open a Montessori program was put on hold in April.

Mary Ann Bounds' Heroes List

Mary Ann Bounds

A partial list of the Montessorians who helped with the recovery

Mammolina Creator Promoting Chinese Magazine

The founder of the Mammolina website has asked for support from Montessori publications in creating a new magazine for the burgeoning Chinese Montessori community. .

Ocean Springs: After the Flood

Children's House Montessori School of Ocean Springs, MS, is thriving.

Mary Ann Bounds, director of the school, may have doubted she would ever again hear that sentence.

Reviving This Social Movement

Maria Montessori's undying commitment to a social movement built around the child has brought about the single largest pedagogy in the world. Today more than 8,000 schools operate on six continents.

Field Notes

SPECIAL SECTION: Exit Strategies

Corporations Eye Independent Schools

Mark Anderson

here's a new, growing market for Montessori schools that could make an important contribution to a retirement - or a final career move - for many owners who lovingly built and tended their schools over the last few decades, but forgot to plan their own exit strategy.

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Victoria Matthews Knew It Was Time

In January 2004 I heard myself announce at a meeting of the staff of the Montessori School of Ojai (MSO) that I planned to retire.

Thirty-two years after founding the school, after years of teaching and directing the school in Ojai, CA, I would retire in June 2005.

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Amelia McTamaney's Careful Planning

In 2002 Amelia McTamaney commissioned a study on the school she had built and led for nearly 30 years.

"It concluded the school was too dependent on me," she said.

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BUYER: Bright Horizons

Opportunity

Boston-based Bright Horizons has acquired six Montessori preschools during the last three years, and it's eager to increase that number through startups and acquisitions, says Tobin Kelly, a vice president with Bright Horizons' acquisition team.

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SELLER: Smaller Scholars

Stability
Mark Anderson

Dot Ahuja has led the Smaller Scholars Montessori Preschool and Elementary in Houston, Texas for more than 20 years, from its startup as a 10-child preschool to a three-school campus with an enrollment of 369 children.

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