Podcast & Blog

  • Personal letters to the community
    by Mirka
  • Podcast series
    listen to interviews with inspiring people
  • News from Montessori Institute Prague

Podcast & Blog

  • Personal letters to the community
    by Mirka
  • Podcast series
    listen to interviews with inspiring people
  • News from Montessori Institute Prague
26.4. 2023

🎙️Podcast: “Where Is Emina?” The story of a unique borderless partnership to support underprivileged children

Emina Šakovic is a psychologist and the Founder of Montessori Educational Center Jedinstvena Generacija. She lives and works in Sarajevo in Bosnia.  Nina Rotello is the Founder of Montessori Origins. She lives and works in the United States. She is originally from Bosnia.  Emina and Nina share a mission. They believe that all children of the world have...

18.4. 2023

🎙️Podcast: The story of Carla Foster and Kyla Morenz and their passion for Montessori and love of humor

Carla Foster has been the AMI Director of Diploma Course at the University College, Høgskolen i Vestfold og Buskerud, in Norway. Kyla Morenz is an AMI Elementary Trainer from Toronto, Canada. They both currently train in Montessori Institute Prague and you can see them at an AMI 6-12 Diploma Course (starting in April, 2024) or AMI...

11.4. 2023

✉️Newsletter: Today we celebrate life and hope!

Dear Montessori colleagues around the world, hello! Did you see our new yellow and blue wizard image? Plamena and I think it is hilarious, the two of us with grant writing wizard hats 😂.. And I sincerely hope you laughed when you saw it. We are feeling like having a bit of fun in our Montessori Institute Prague life....

6.4. 2023

🎙️Podcast: The story of Lilian Bryan, a single mother of 5 children, who became an AMI Trainer

In 1968 Lilian Bryan was commissioned by Mario Montessori, son of Maria Montessori, to establish the Montessori Institute Atlanta, an AMI teacher training center. There Lilian directed AMI Primary(3-6)  teacher training courses for 43 years. The training center under her leadership became internationally acclaimed and very successful. Lilian Bryan’s many years of Montessori work have...

29.3. 2023

Fearless Culture in Montessori Organizations

There is an elephant in the room but nobody wants to talk about it. Do you know the feeling? There are two types of cultures in our Montessori organizations: fearful and fearless. Which one is yours? Research shows that fear is one of the most pervasive feelings at work. And I have seen that our Montessori organizations...

17.3. 2023

✉️Newsletter: Planning for the future, grant writing sprints and AMI Administrators Course!

Dear friends and colleagues around the world, hello from Prague! I will share something really funny about me. I am a big picture thinker. I am also a dreamer. I am a large-scale visionary. My mind often wanders in the future, planning, plotting and creating. When July is on the horizon, like it is today on March 17, I ask my husband...

17.3. 2023

🎙️Podcast: The Story of a Lifelong Montessori Service to Others with Sue Pritzker

Sue is an AMI 3-6 trained guide who early in her carrier became a school leader. She has served for more than 30 years to the community of Childpeace Montessori School in Portland Oregon as well as to the global Montessori community. She is an AMI trainer for school administrators, a trainer for the WSLI, she speaks,...

3.3. 2023

✉️Newsletter: It is OK to talk about money in Montessori.

Dear Montessori colleagues and friends around the world, hello! Today, I want to talk to you about money and Montessori. It has been a theme for me since the start of the war in Ukraine. As the sole owner of Montessori Institute Prague, when we are not doing well financially, I worry a lot. I worry about MIP not being...

1.3. 2023

🎙️Podcast: The Story of Jenny Hoglund and her work with adolescents and adolescent workers

Jenny Hoglund is an AMI 12-18 and 6-12 Trainer. When she does not travel all over the world directing AMI courses, she lives in Sweden. Jenny founded Varberg Montessori School which serves children from 15 months to 15 years of age. And she founded and runs The Montessori Centre for Work and Study Lara for...

17.2. 2023

✉️Newsletter: What do you think about my “52 books this year” challenge?

Message to the community from Mirka: Dear Montessori colleagues and friends around the world, hello! Has it ever happened to you that you wanted to do something for a long time, but you never got around to doing it? And then one day you made a decision, and suddenly things started happening like little miracles, confirming to you that your decision...