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A Blueprint for a Montessori Program
The ideas that define us as a school
The following key elements of educational practice have served for many years as the core values of the Barrie School; one of the largest and most highly regarded Montessori Schools in North America.
They were developed with the intention of being shared with Montessori schools around the world. Please feel free to adapt them to fit your school if you find them to be of interest. We only ask that you mention somewhere in your philosophy statement that they were adapted from Barrie's.
Barrie welcomes visitors from around the world. For further information, contact them at 301-871-6200 The Barrie School and its Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies is located at 13500 Layhill Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20906.
Tim Seldin, President of The Montessori Foundation, Headmaster Emeritus of The Barrie School. You may contact me if you wish at 4157 Mountain Road, Pasadena, Maryland 21122 410-360-9674