With Montessori schools booming, Milwaukee holds demonstration

Erin Richards:

wenty years ago, Paula Ambos enrolled her daughter at MacDowell Montessori School after a friend raved about how well the style of education worked for her kid.

Ambos started helping in the classroom - common for Montessori parents because the "freedom with responsibility" philosophy of learning requires at least one classroom assistant - then pursued formal teacher training herself.

Today, she's the primary teacher of a 3-, 4- and 5-year-old kindergarten classroom at MacDowell, which incorporated a high school this year and became one of several new or revamped public Montessori options that Milwaukee Public Schools is championing to parents all over the city.

The public Montessori-school community in Milwaukee is now one of the largest in the country - growing to eight schools under the MPS umbrella, and a ninth that operates as a City of Milwaukee-authorized charter school.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 7, 2012 1:28 AM
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