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Montessori in Action Podcast
Montessori in Action is a podcast that opens conversations with practitioners from the field who are working to forward the Montessori revolution.
Episodes
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Black Montessori Teachers, Collective Memory-Work, and Educational Sovereignty
Our episode this month is a conversation with Diedra Carlson about her recent presentation at the Montessori Research Collective Symposium where she shared a…
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Montessori Math Outcomes
This fall, French researcher, Sarah Le Diagon, joined us to talk about the results of a 5-year longitudinal randomized controlled trial looking at the impact…
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From Pyramids to Pink Towers: Montessori Education and the African Connection
We launch this new school year with a conversation around a new book: From Pyramids to Pink Towers: Montessori Education and the African Connection. This book…
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Montessori Children Having Montessori Children
This next episode of Montessori in Action is focusing on Montessori children who have grown up and now have their own Montessori children. Genevieve D’Cruz and…
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Role of Montessori Education Globally
Our first episode for Season Seven is a conversation with Jayadev Calamur. Jayadev reached out to me about a book he is writing and wanted to engage in a…
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2026 SUMMER READS
We are closing out the sixth season with our annual Summer Reads episode where we introduce books for you to check out over your summer. This summer, we have…
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Montessori Data Lab
Our conversation for May is with Isabella Cai, the founder and CEO of Y Montessori, where she leads the Montessori Data Lens program to spark meaningful…
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Micro Activism and Montessori
Omkari Williams is the author of Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World (Without a Bullhorn) and she joins us for our next episode of…
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Montessori, Autism and Good Practice: What the Principles Look Like in Real Life
This episode of Montessori in Action is a conversation with Sue Atkins, the new President of AMI UK and longtime early childhood educator. She shared some…
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The Impact of Public Montessori Preschool Research
It’s time to hear more about the latest research released this past fall! Dr. Angeline Lillard joins Montessori in Action Podcast to unpack A national…
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A Principal Perspective
Last month we heard from Dr. Jaime Aquino, the Superintendent of San Antonio Public Schools. Our episode to start out the new year is a conversation with the…
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Public Montessori Research
Our guest this month is Dr. Ian Parker, a career educator and researcher, who joins us to talk about Re-envisioning School: Lessons on School Reform from…
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Public Montessori School Programs
This month, our podcast focuses on public Montessori programs. Superintendent Dr. Jaime Aquino joins us to talk about his experience supporting public…
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Finding Ground: Building Strong Elementary Practice authors' interview
This month we have a special guest who joins PMAI Executive Director, Elizabeth Slade, to celebrate the launch of a book they co-wrote, titled, Finding Ground…
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New Montessori Decodable Books
Our guest this month has created a new set of Montessori decodable readers. Hannah Richardson is the founder of Montessori Makers and after years in the…
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2025 Summer Reads Bonus Episode
Welcome back to the next episode of Montessori in Action Podcast. Our first conversation of season 6 was our Summer Reads episode where we celebrate authors as…
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Summer Reads
Welcome back to another year with Montessori in Action Podcast! Our first conversation of season 6 is our Summer Reads episode where we celebrate authors as…
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Rewilding Montessori
Our final episode of the season is a conversation about rewilding Montessori. Montessori in Action Podcast is joined by two deep thinkers- Lucy Recio and Frank…
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Black Montessori Conference
Coming up in June is a unique conference opportunity- the first ever Black Montessori Conference will take place June 20th-22nd at Howard University in…
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Starting a Public Montessori School
Have you ever wished you had superpowers? In this next episode, meet four people with superpowers who are starting two public Montessori schools- one in…
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Supporting Bilingual Programs
This episode is a conversation with Dr. Kathy Escamilla, who shares her extraordinary contribution to Bilingual education in the United States. She takes us…
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Equity Impact Circles
Join guest-host Maati Wafford with Dr. Juanita Imelda Johnson, a long time teacher at Dater Montessori School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kristen…
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Montessori and Current Neuroscience
Our episode this month looks at how current neuroscience supports the work we do in Montessori classrooms. Our guest, Veronica Burbano, an experienced…
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Reflections on a Montessori Education
This episode is a conversation with some adults who attended Montessori schools as children. They came together to talk about their experiences in their…
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Season 5, Ep.5: Supporting Key Children
Season 5, episode 5 is a conversation with Dr. LaNail R. Plummer, the founder of Onyx Therapy Group a Black, Woman, and Veteran-owned business, dedicated to…
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Season 5, Ep. 4 Narrative & Movement Building with Lucy Recio
For more than 15 years, Lucy Recio has worked at the intersection of communications, strategy, and organizing. She builds campaigns, programs, and systems in…
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Season 5, Ep 3: Street Data
Street Data: A Next Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and Social Transformation invites readers to rethink this era of high stakes testing and engage in…
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Season 5, Ep. 2 Black Montessori Education Fund- A Conversation with Executive Director, Meisha Perrin
Our conversation this month is with Meisha Perrin, the new Executive Director of the Black Montessori Education Fund, a non-profit project founded to increase…
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Season 5, Ep.1: Summer Reads, A Peek Into the Montessori Archives
We launch Season Five with our Summer Reads episode, where we offer you ideas of something to read this summer. This year, rather than an author, we have a…
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Season 4, Ep. 9: Learning by Heart or with Heart
"Are you more curious to know or to understand concepts?” This is the question that opens the research done by A group of 5 researchers including Montessorian…
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Season 4, Ep. 8: District Coaching
Episode eight of this season is a conversation with Antria Goss. Antria is the first Montessori Coach to serve in the Cincinnati Public School District. Antria…
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Season 4, Ep. 7: Montessori Assistants
Our next episode of Montessori in Action features Guest Host, Genevieve D’Cruz. In this conversation, Genevieve speaks with two Montessorians- Elena Gonzalez…
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Season 4, Ep. 6: Social Justice Conversation
This episode brings together three Montessorians from three different Montessori organizations for a conversation about social justice. Maati Wafford, the…
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Season 4, Ep. 5: The Montessori Child
Our first episode for this calendar year is with two authors who are coming out with a new book. Junnifa Uzodike and Simone Davies are co-authors of the book…
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Season 3, Ep.4: Are we woke?
Season four continues with a conversation with Sheri Bishop. Sheri will be giving a talk in January entitled: Are Montessori Educators Barely Awake, Woke, or…
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Season 4, Ep. 3: School Start Up - Sankofa Team
Sankofa Montessori is a new charter public school in Georgia that just opened its doors this school year. Our episode this month features two of their…
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Season 4, Ep. 2: Montessori Research
Recently a systematic review of Montessori research was released that found that relative to traditional education, Montessori education has a positive effect…
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Season 4, Ep. 1: Dual Language and Montessori
To launch Season 4 of the Montessori in Action Podcast, our topic is dual language and Montessori. We have two guests who have recently written articles about…
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Season 3, Ep. 12: Summer Reads - The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education
For the final episode of Season Three we will be featuring a summer read. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education is a brand new accessible resource…
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Season 3, Ep. 11: Organizing Impactful Montessori Professional Development
Veronica Sias is the Montessori District Coordinator in Dallas for the Dallas Independent School District. In her first year in the position, she developed a…
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Season 3, Ep. 10: Leading with Dignity
Dr. Montessori writes in Citizen of the World “What is most wanted is no patronizing charity for humanity, but a reverent consciousness of its dignity and…
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Season 3, Ep. 9: The Black Wildflowers Fund
In this episode we learn about the Black Wildflowers Fund, a new entity and sister organization of Wildflower Schools that will be co-led by our guests Maia…
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Season 3, Ep. 8: International Montessori Training
This episode features two Montessori trainers who talked with us about the experience of serving their communities. Isabel Arce Garcia works at the Instituto…
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Season 3, Ep. 7: The Tensions Implementing Montessori
Our next episode is a conversation with Victoria Johnson, who shares the results of her research, Education Anywhere: A Constructivist Grounded Theory study of…
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Season 3, Ep. 6: Montessori Training Transformation: How new graduates emerge prepared
As times change, the preparation of Montessori educators must also. In this conversation, primary trainer, Uma Ramani shares ways in which she has shifted both…
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Season 3, Ep. 5: A Conversation with Siobhan Brown
This month is a conversation with Vonnie Brown, the new Chief Operating Officer at Association Montessori International- USA. Her Montessori connection began…
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Season 3, Ep. 4: Public Montessori in Ukraine
Our next episode features the emergence of public Montessori in Ukraine. Anna Volokhova and Viktoriia Shcherbyna and talk about their Montessori journeys, the…
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Season 3, Ep. 3: A New Era of Indigenous Representation in Montessori Materials
Our next episode is a conversation with Trisha Moquino and Marcus Trujillo, the creators of new Montessori material coming out through Montessori Services…
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Season 3, Ep. 2: Montessori on Wheels
Rungano Montessori on Wheels is a mobile learning incubator whose mission is to create Montessori-based learning environments within Black, Indigenous and…
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Season 3, Ep. 1: Summer Read: The Future of Smart
Welcome to Season Three! Last season we launched with an episode about summer reads- Montessori-related books to explore. Our premier episode for this season…
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Season 2, Ep. 12: Special Education in Montessori
Our final episode for this season is a conversation with two passionate Montessorians exploring the intersection of high quality Montessori implementation and…
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Season 2, Ep. 11: Renewing the Montessori Curriculum
Our next episode is a conversation with two Montessori educators who are working on a project called ‘Renewing the Montessori Curriculum’. This is a group of…
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Season 2, Ep. 10: A Conversation with Sarah Harvey
Our next episode is a conversation with Sarah Harvey, the founder of Sankofa Montessori, a proposed culturally responsive, child and family-centered…
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Season 2, Ep. 9: A Conversation with Dr. Amira Mogaji
Amira Mogaji, EdD, is the president of the AMS Board of Directors and a founding board member of Montessori for Social Justice. Her special interests lie in…
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Season 2, Ep. 8: MACTE Conversation
Our guests for this episode are from The Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education ( MACTE) which is an organization that accredits Montessori…
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Season 2, Ep. 7: Elementary Reentry Conversation
Season Two, Episode 7 of Montessori in Action Podcast hosts a conversation with two Montessori educators working in Elementary classrooms in public Montessori…
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Season 2, Ep. 6: Early Child Reentry Conversation
Season Two, Episode 6 of Montessori in Action Podcast hosts a conversation with three Montessori educators working in 3-6 classrooms in public Montessori…
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Season 2, Ep. 5: A Conversation with the DC Wildflower Public Charter School Leadership Team
Wildflower is an ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and families. They aspire to give all children and…
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Season 2 Ep. 4: A Conversation with Two AMS Leaders
Episode Four is a conversation with American Montessori Society Executive Director, Munir Shivji and Director of Equity and Engagement, Maati Wafford. These…
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Season 2 Ep. 3: A Conversation with Ayize Sabater
This episode is a conversation with Ayize Sabater as he shares his journey to become the Executive Director of AMI USA, and his vision for the work ahead in…