Blog Posts

Corner of Hope Update September 2016

1 Sep 2016

The school at New Canaan, Nakuru continues maintaining student numbers at around 100. The teachers are working on adding on more art activities like music, clay, and painting for the children.... Read more

Corner of Hope Update March 2016

1 Apr 2016

The school at New Canaan, Nakuru has been maintaining steady student numbers at around 100. The classrooms have been named after fruits and have all been fitted with new doors. A snack corner has... Read more

2015 Educateurs sans Frontières Assembly

12 Oct 2015

The Educateurs sans Frontières that gathered in Thailand this summer, came from 26 different countries. We spent two weeks getting inspiration from one another’s projects, and brainstorming on how... Read more

Reunion: The First AMI Training Course in Thailand

9 Aug 2015

It is a great pleasure for us to meet up again after almost ten years and to spend two weeks together exploring the future of Montessori in Thailand and around the world. 

In 2006 the... Read more

2015 World Education Forum

9 Aug 2015

In May 2015, world leaders met for two days in Incheon, Korea at the 2015 World Education Forum at the invitation of UNESCO and six co-conveners: UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, UN Women) and the... Read more

Royal Support for Montessori

8 Aug 2015

It was very surprising when, during her talk to us here at the EsF Assembly, Dr. Priyanut Dharmapiya said that the king of Thailand had been a Montessori student!  So I talked to her and some... Read more

Corner of Hope May 2015

1 Apr 2015

The number of children at the school in New Canaan continues to grow with 34 new children starting in 2015. There are now just over 100 children with two teachers per classroom. Two of these... Read more

Corner of Hope August 2014

1 Aug 2014

The school is doing well. Maintenance issues such as the fence that needs a permanent solution, black roofs that needed to be painted white, shelving for the kitchen, and a broken water tap... Read more

Haiti August 2014

1 Aug 2014

Volunteer Sylvie-Anne Whiting braved the hot Haitian summer and donated one week of her time to help Haitian teachers make materials and plan activities for their schools. The week was part of a... Read more

Haiti April 2014

1 Apr 2014

Educateur Patricia Gwin is currently in Haiti where she is conducting a seminar over the course of three weekends, to introduce Montessori preschool teachers to the math materials used at the... Read more

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Authors

(15), Victoria Barrès (1), Hillary Korir (1), Sandrine Mallet (1), Pam Staton (1), Susan Mayclin Stephenson (2), Mini Ravi (9), AMI EsF (9), Helen Mohan Elias (2), Fay Hendriksen (1), Dipika Lakhani (8), Susan Shea (8), Maryse Postlewaite (1), Marcellina Alum Otii (2)