The Academy of Thought and Industry

We are excited to share that ATI Hollywood Beach is moving to a newly renovated space for the 23/24 school year! We are one of the first Montessori schools in Florida to provide a complete Montessori learning program from 16 months to 18 years.

Parents of NYC: I'm hosting 4 amazing, unique, and FREE (with childcare!) events at our school on the UES 🥰 We're gathering New York's bright, young minds to share their talent and wisdom with you and your kids, starting THIS SATURDAY Let's inspire the next generation 🔥

This week, school leaders met for a very important live gathering of professional growth, learning, and connection. The event, which we call "Thrive," focused on skill-building and how to create a culture of excellence in our schools. #growth #leadership #thriveleadership #ati

🚀 At ATI, we believe that assessment is and should be primarily for the purpose of helping students learn. Gain mastery, not just grades 👉 tinyurl.com/2frxurv9

Today we mark 152 years since the birth of Maria Montessori! She was one of the first women to attend medical school in Italy; was nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize; tirelessly advocated for the rights of children and women: ow.ly/lvMw50KwWQ7

The Academy of Thought and Industry is on a mission to rethink education from the ground up. Our one goal is to help each student become their very best self! #BackToSchool youtu.be/z2LQ3UdEIlM

What is Montessori education and how does it benefit not only preschool students, but those in elementary, middle, and even high school? How does it affect college admissions and professional success? ow.ly/CV0M50Kf65c

This week ATI school leaders and Guides ventured out to California to complete the in-residency portion of Prepared Montessorian's Adolescent Montessori Teacher Certification. #thoughtandindustry

In early childhood Montessori education, we talk a lot about the value of work. Beginning almost at birth, there’s an emphasis on supporting and enabling a child to do the work of self-creation. So what changes in adolescence? tinyurl.com/3vwdrurx #montessorieducation

"Adolescents and young people almost right up to maturity are treated like babies in the elementary schools. At 14 or 16 they are still subjected to the petty threat of 'bad marks'… The work is 'measured' like inanimate matter, not 'judged' as a product of life." Montessori

Our Adolescent Program Manager & Coach, Carrie-Ann Biondi spent over 25 years teaching in universities before leaving academia and joining us at Higher Ground. 1/3

My history of education class starts in a week! preparedmontessorian.com/programs/the-h… Topics: * From tutelage to education * Sparta: totalitarian pedagogy * Plato's intellectualization of education * The liberal arts (trivium, quadrivium) * Comenius: pansophism, Orbis Pictus (ctd.)

“The education of today is humiliating. It produces an inferiority complex and artificially lowers the powers of man. Its very organization sets a limit to knowledge well below the natural level. It supplies men with crutches when they could run on swift feet.” Montessori

Today is the first day of school for the school I run and I’m so tired and also so happy 🥲 And feeling so so proud of the teaching team & community of parents and students we’ve brought together. feeling very in my element and at home ✨💛

Montessori envisioned that middle schools students would board at a sort of farm school. People hear this and envision teens gardening. I think what she had in mind is closer to teens tractor tilling.

High school the way it should be! "My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will." - Maria Montessori

Not coincidentally, the ultimate goal of the adolescent coaching program I’m helping develop for @AcademyIndustry is to “make itself obsolete” by empowering teens to be their own coaches henceforth.

.@to_higherground Q&A on Clubhouse in 45 mins. If there’s something you want to know but you can’t ask via Clubhouse for whatever reason, DM me or comment here.

Hosting a general Q&A about Higher Ground tonight with @raygirn. We are all at once: * the largest and fastest-growing Montessori school network * a teacher training institute * a think tank * a technology platform Ask us anything. clubhouse.com/event/P9KrkDBO

We’re hosting a 24 hour online education and parenting conference, starting in a few hours. Scorching banger of a speaker lineup. @aslillard, Simone Davies, @cvaldary, myself, @raygirn, and many many many more. discoveringthechild.com