The Observer
In a new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, researchers found that there is an association between Montessori education and wellbeing in adulthood. The study found “that attending Montessori for at least two childhood years was associated with significantly higher adult wellbeing on all four factors.”
Last October, as part of a larger unit on responsible land use, a group of students in our Adolescent Program (AP, grades 7-9) studied chickens—their anatomy, behavior, physiology, intelligence, needs, environmental impacts etc. It was the beginning of a journey that led to them starting to sell eggs this September as part of their class business, Sunny Orchard.
One of our newest employees here at Hollis Montessori isn’t actually that new. John Schulte, the new HMS Facilities Manager, has been helping out around the school both as a volunteer and as a contractor for several years now. Now that John is an official employee, we have 3 generations of his family at the school. John’s daughter, Sarah Gilleeny, is the lead guide in the Lower Elementary II classroom, and her three children are students at Hollis Montessori.
