Books

These books are available in most libraries and bookstores. This is not a comprehensive list but rather a suggested reference list of books we have found valuable to our understanding of the growth and development of children and the Montessori Method.

Books About Montessori Education and Child Development

• Montessori Today, A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood, Paula Polk Lillard
• Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius,  Angelene Stoll Lillard
  
• Montessori Madness!, Trevor Eissler
• A Parent’s Guide to the Montessori Classroom, Aline D. Wolf
• To Educate the Human Potential, Maria Montessori
• The Absorbent Mind, Maria Montessori
• The Montessori Potential by Paula Lillard Preschlack
• The Montessori Toddler by Simone Davies
• Montessori for Every Family by Tim Seldin and Lorna McGrath
• Maria Montessori Speaks to Parents by Maria Montessori
• The Tao of Montessori by Catherine McTameny

Books About Parenting, Positive Discipline, and Education

• Montessori From the Start, Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen
• Living Simply with Children, Marie Sherlock
• Endangered Minds, Jane Healy
• Punished by Rewards, Alfie Kohn
• Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
• Siblings Without Rivalry, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
• Between Parent and Child, Dr. Haim G. Ginott, Alice Ginott, and H.Goddard
• Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen, Ed. D.
• Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy
• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.
• Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful Parenting by Janet Lansbury
• Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide by Britt Hawthorne
• Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race by Jessica Ralli, Megan Pamela Ruth Madison, Isabel Roxas
• Yes! No!: A First Conversation About Consent by Jessica Ralli, Megan Pamela Ruth Madison, Isabel Roxas
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
  

Podcasts

• Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy
• Shelf Help: Montessori & Parenting
• Good Inside with Dr. Becky
• Raising Good Humans with Dr. Aliza
• Unruffled with Janet Lansbury
  

Videos

Trevor Eissler, Montessori parent, offers a parent-to-parent argument for Montessori education.

The TED Conference hears from Google’s co-founders about how Montessori helped create their mammoth success.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

An animated version of Ken Robinson's follow-on talk about Changing Education Paradigms.

Parents tell you, in their own words, what makes Montessori education special. Go "beyond 2+2" and see the difference that Montessori can make in your child's life.

Tips from a Montessori Guide on understanding toddlerhood in order to have calmer lives and more moments of connection versus correction.

Through careful observation of how children work and interact, Maria Montessori developed the Montessori Method more than 100 years ago.

Montessori Infant & Toddler programs lay the foundation for lifelong learning by nurturing your child’s curiosity, self-confidence, and intrinsic desire to learn from birth.

This is a new high definition DVD based on the original AMS video of the same name.

Learn why the Montessori kindergarten year—the third and final year of the Montessori Early Childhood cycle—is a foundation for life.

Montessori education has been around for over 100 years...but what is it? And why don't all students have access to it?

Articles

How do Innovators Think?

A recent article in Harvard Business Review discusses innovative entrepreneurs vs. average executives.
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How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century

A Time Magazine report. 
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The Montessori Mafia

From the Wall Street Journal.
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Evaluating Montessori Education

Groundbreaking study by Angeline Lillard, published in Science Magazine.
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Websites

Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) is the original organization to promote the ideas and principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, both training teachers and accrediting schools. Association Montessori Internationale / USA is AMI's branch office in the United States.
amiusa.org

The American Montessori Society (AMS) leads, empowers, and serves the global community of Montessori educators as the foremost advocate for research and policy, ongoing teacher education, and standards of accreditation through opportunities for mentored individual growth, collaboration, and member engagement.

amshq.org

Aid to Life offers clear, simple, straightforward parenting advice that is easy to understand and most importantly easy to apply.
aidtolife.org