[subjects include: Paul L. Diamond, Benjamin D. Boodman, Dr. Robert J. Doman, Elizabeth L. Carlson, Nancy McCormick Rambusch, Cleo Monson, Rambusch Marathon, unidentified photographs, CD of photographs of Nancy Rambusch, Joan Ruffing, Dennis Smith, Glora Dei, children in Montessori schools, Charles V. Bush, James R. McGhee, Maria Montessori, Montessori Teacher Training in Los Angeles 1915, Casa Bambibi, Happy Montessori School, Covent of the Visitation, Greene to the School, Suburban Montessori School, Oklahoma, Sea Pines Montessori School, Fitchburg Montessori School, Mary Lisa Ventura, Trabajamos Community Head Start, chart prepared by Ann Udell, Diablo Valley Montessori School, 1975 American Montessori Society Seminar, Granby, Lucya Prince, Howard Bruner, Georgie Grosde, Jim Hennes, J. McVicker Hunt, John Bremer, negatives]
Includes correspondence with and about E.M. Standing, copies of correspondence with Maria Montessori, "Dr. Maria Montessori and the Montessori Movement: A General Bibliography of Materials in the English Language, 1909-1961."
A diploma, signed by Maria Montessori, from the Internationale Montessori Courso, 1914 and a photograph of the Montessori class in Rome, June 1914. Included in the photograph is Maria Montessori and Packard's friend Charlotte Wiggen. Photograph shows 88 women, one man, and eight children.
Items related to the experiences of Mary Storrs Packard of Maine in her education as a Montessori teacher: Two volumes of a journal by M.S. Packard: a) Rome, March 1914, Via Gregoriana. 36. Packard's extensive class notes, including observances of children playing and learning, and description of day's occurrences. Pasted on second page is a photograph of Maria Montessori and two unidentified women. b) Rome, June 1914, 36 Via Gregoriana. Continues Packard's daily notes. Pasted in the journal is a letter, January 19, 1914, from Signorina Anna Fedeli, telling Packard that Dr. Montessori has accepted her application to take the course. Loose in the album is a photograph of Maria Montessori.
Papers of individuals who took the AMS Teacher Training Course, were trained by Montessori, or were otherwise associated with AMS but did not serve on the Board of Directors. Includes notes and notebooks from AMS Teacher Training Courses, diplomas, and journals documenting the experience of Montessori training.
A publication for AMS prepared by the Cleveland Montessori Association that includes essays written on the Montessori method of education by Nancy McCormick Rambusch and others.
"Before AMS: Nancy Rambusch's Roots," Public School Montessorian, Fall 1995; "Johnny Can Read - When He's Taught," Sunday News, October 30, 1960; "Mae Gadpaille's $3,000 Dream," Boston Sunday Globe, November 16, 1969 (pg. 30-44); "The Montessori Education Plan," Boston-Roxbury City News, October 1, 1964; "Thw Wizard of Web Retailing" (Jeff Bezoz), Business Week, December 20, 2004; "Montessori Learning," Chicago Parent, March 2005 (pg. 24); "Measuring Test Success," Sharon Damore, Chicago Parent, March 2005 (pg. 24); "The Joy of Learning," Time, May 12, 1961; "The Montessori Method," Jubilee, April 1958 (pg. 36-41), "Montessori Reappraised," Nancy Rambusch, Jubilee, April 1960 (pg. 42-46); Eulogy for Nancy Rambusch by John J. McDermott, Montessori Life, Winter 1995; "Indigenous American Montessori Models," Nancy McCormick Rambusch, Montessori Life, Winter 1994; "Public School States Its Future on the Montessori Way," The New York Times, February 2, 2005; "An American Montessori Diffusion Philosophy," Nancy McCormick Rambusch - Occasional Paper from Princeton Center for Teacher Education.
Correspondence and publications associated with Marquita Dubach Green, one of the first graduates of a course directed by Nancy Rambusch (credentialed in 1964), as well as Green's notebook from the Teacher Training Course.
Subjects include Carousel Nursery School, unidentified photographs, scenes from Montessori schools, Academy of the Visitation, Yellow Springs, Montessori School of Westchester, C Wise Memorial Day Care Center, Whitby, Nancy McCormick Rambusch, Melitta Larko, Effi Weinberg, Phyllis Appelbaum, Peggy Loeffler, Cleo Monson, Hal Bolan, Lee Salk, Jane Mack, Kathleen Bowser, Leon Sipes, David Weinberg, Franklin D. Toups, Anne McCarrick, Eileen Mills, Richard D. Kanakanui, Little People's Montessori School, Theodore E. Calleton, John B. Blessington, Robert H. Johnson Jr., Goldstein, Guiliani, Shahbaz K. Mallick, James F. Chambliss, Sal Messineo, Leon Kunstenaar, school in Hong Kong, Blessed Trinity Montessori, Sylvia A. Richardson, Charles L. Shedd, Albert H. Gieseke, Samuel Bottosto, slides
Large plaque: "The Montessori Teachers Association of Pennsylvania honors fellow Montessorian Nancy McCormick Rambusch for ther outstanding contribution to the field of Early Childhood Education. Presented the First Day of October 1994, Valerie Loughran, MTA-PA President."
Includes papers that seek to explain the functions and the purpose of the American Montessori Society, as well as answer frequently asked questions about AMS and the Montessori method.
Lana Ford, "Brain Dominance"; Urban H. Fleege, "A Study of the Comparatice Effectiveness of Montessori Pre-School Education"; David Elkind, "Piaget Research and Montessori," "Piaget and Montessori"; Urban Fleege, Michael Black, and John Rackauskas, "Montessori Pre-School Education."
Includes AMS publications and materials written about the Montessori method of education collected by Mary Verschuur (Black). Some of these materials were written by Nancy McCormick Rambusch. Also includes telegrams from Nancy McCormick Rambusch to Mary L. Black.
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