EarthTIES - Creating Learning Communities by Gaian Design

	The Presenters


		Eva-Maria Ahlquist Sweden	"Cosmic education", the Cornerstone of Montessori education Eva-Maria is a graduate of the AMI 6-12 course at Bergamo, Italy. She directs courses in Montessori pedagogy at the Stockholm Institute of Education and is working toward her Ph.D. on the Montessori prepared environment.



		Steven Arnold Australia	Learning to Love – The Work of Adolescence Steven Arnold is currently Principal of Brisbane Montessori School in Australia. Prior to this he was Director and Founder of New Zealand's first Montessori secondary school: Athena Montessori College. Steven has taught in a variety of settings including in Southeast Asia, Europe and Australasia. He has worked with learners of all ages, including University lecturer, elementary and secondary teacher and as an adult mentor. Steven received his AMI training at Bergamo in 1993 and holds an MEd in Montessori Integrative Learning from The Institute for Educational Studies (TIES) at Endicott College in the United States.



		Nicola Chisnall New Zealand	The transformation of the Montessori adult Nicola Chisnall is a Lecturer at AUT University in New Zealand. She holds an AMI 3-6 credential, a Masters Degree and is currently working on an EdD. She has been engaged in Montessori education since 1984 and in 1988 established Wa Ora Montessori School (3-12 year olds) with a group of seven other parents. Wa Ora was the first integrated Montessori school in New Zealand and Nicky was appointed its first teacher. Her current interest is in the transformation of the teacher and re-conceptualizing Montessori education.



		Fiona Graham New Zealand	How is Montessori education relevant to the 21st century adolescent? Within a year of her son starting at the only Montessori high school in New Zealand Fiona Graham found herself leaving the corporate world and returning to teaching with a renewed passion. With both her children in Montessori schools Fiona too began her Montessori study, completing her 6-12 training through The Institute for Montessori Education and her M.Ed in Montessori Integrative Learning from The Institute for Educational Studies at Endicott College. Fiona is now a Trustee of Athena Montessori College and is currently acting Associate Director, drawing on her experience in adult education, sports coaching and love of learning.



		Jan Gaffney New Zealand	Leading a Montessori School: Community and Authenticity Jan Gaffney received her M.Ed. in Montessori Integrative Learning from The Institute for Educational Studies at Endicott College. She has trained in both Montessori and State Early childhood and primary (elementary) education, and worked with children from 3 to 13 years of age over the past 17 years, She is currently the Principal of Wa Ora Montessori School, a community owned Preschool and public primary (elementary) school. She is also the president of the Montessori Association of New Zealand and is currently enrolled in the Hilary Leadership Programme through the University of Auckland.



		Maria Elizabeth Gastal Fassa Brazil	The Montessori Contribution to a New Psychology of the Child Maria Elizabeth Fassa received her M.Ed. in Montessori Integrative Learning from The Institute for Educational Studies at Endicott College. She also holds a Bachelor of Law (1968) and Bachelor of Psychology (1980) as well as a graduate degree in Therapeutic Pedagogy from Centro de Estudos Médicos e Psicopedagógicos. She is a Montessori consultant and a clinical psychologist.



		John Fowler USA	Cosmic Standards, Public Education John Fowler holds a Ph.D. in Integral Studies. He has been a Montessori director, administrator, and consultant since 1981. He also holds the AMI 6-12 credential from Bergamo (1980). He is currently directing a Montessori upper elementary class at the Denison Montessori School, a magnet program in Denver, Colorado. John is the creator of the Time Line of Light Cosmological Curriculum for children and adults.



		Philip Snow Gang New Zealand	In what ways is Montessori education contributing to the foundation and evolution of a new humanity? Philip is Academic Dean for the Master of Education (M.Ed.) program, author of Rethinking Education and Conscious Education: The Bridge To Freedom. He created the ecological game (Sixth Great Lesson), Our Planet, Our Home, and he appears in the anthology, Towards a New World View: Conversations at the Leading Edge. Phil and Marsha are the developers of the CD An Introduction to Montessori's Radical Education. After a ten-year career in engineering and business, Gang became a Montessori teacher. He has been a Montessori school head, consultant and educator of teachers. In 1978 he helped initiate the National Erdkinder Consortium - a group dedicated to founding Montessori secondary schools. In the early 90's Gang was on the faculty of California Institute of Integral Studies as a professor-mentor to students engaged in doctoral studies in the School of Transformative Learning. This was the first collaborative on-line distance learning program. Today, Gang's major interest is exploring eco-cosmological patterns and their implications for the human journey.



		Barbara Gordon USA	Communicating with Parents: Trusting and supporting the work of the child Barbara Gordon, is recognized around the world as a master in Montessori education. She is a well respected leader in the field of Montessori, has been involved with Montessori since 1964, and continues to lead her school and others across the country via seminars, workshops, and consultations. Barbara is also the founder and executive director of AMITOT (Association Montessori International Teachers of Texas), and was president of the Montessori Administrators Council/USA for ten years.



		P. Krishna India	Montessori and Krishnamurti: Education and the Significance of Life Prof. P. Krishna is currently a visiting professor at the Dept of Physics at Devi Ahilya University, Indore. Formerly, he was the Rector of the Rajghat Education Center of the Krishnamurti Foundation India in Varanasi, India from 1986 to 2002. He is a trustee of the Foundation and continues to be involved with its activities. He has written articles and books on various issues relating to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti. He has also delivered lectures on Education, Science and Society to varied audiences.



		Cindee Karns USA	Research like Jazz: Reflective Inquiry and Renewal for Montessori Teachers Cindee Karns is on the graduate faculty of the Endicott-TIES collaborative, where she teaches research in the Integrative Learning and Montessori Integrative Learning options. She has worked as a pre-service teaching mentor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a long time member of the Alaska Teacher Research Network. Since the main focus in her classroom has been teacher research, she has come to realize many of the same conclusions about teaching and learning as did Maria Montessori. She has published "Turning over the Wheel: Discovering the Strength in Diversity" as a chapter in Living and Teaching in an Unjust World, as well as "Learning: A New Model for a Healthy Community" in Alaska Teacher Researchers', The Far Vision: The Close Look. Her current interest outside of the classroom is initiating structured conversation with people of diverse ideologies using The World Café format (http://theworldcafe.com/) to promote dialog, understanding, and change. Cindee is a graduate of the Endicott-TIES program, holding an M.Ed. in Integrative Learning with an emphasis in Experiential Learning.



		Mary Ellen Maunz USA	Montessori: External Support for the Soul in Process of its Evolution Mary Ellen has been a Montessorian since 1972 and has received AMI training at the 3-6 and 6-12 levels. For more than 20 years she was mentored by Elizabeth Caspari. She gained her M.AEd. in Montessori Integrative Education from the TIES program at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. Lead author of Learning to Read is Child’s Play and co-founder of The Early Reading Company, Mary Ellen travels and teaches Montessori in the United States, South America, Asia and Europe. She was a member of the Board of Directors for ten years and the Commission for Accreditation for eight years of the Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE) and served as Vice-President of the International Association of Montessori Educators for three years.



		Marsha Snow Morgan New Zealand	In what ways is Montessori education contributing to the foundation and evolution of a new humanity? Marsha has worked as a Montessori teacher, school director, educator of Montessori teachers, consultant, and workshop leader. These initiatives have taken her through Europe, South America, North America and the Pacific Rim. In New Zealand she is Founder of Ripple Education Community and has been active in the Kids Edible Garden Project - a program to place permaculture gardens in government schools. The main focus of her work is perceiving systemic patterns in the design and creation of learning communities. She explains, "We are storytellers, mythmakers and symbol designers. Addressing the present planetary crises through Montessori education may provide new possibilities for Gaian renewal." Her graduate thesis was titled: "An Ecogenesis for Education: A Context for Learning." Marsha Snow Morgan received her Masters degree in 1998 and holds the AMI 6-12 diploma from Bergamo (1970).



		Mary Caroline Parker USA	The Joyous Observer: Empowering Parents as Participant-Observers Mary Caroline Parker graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in Latin American Studies, with distinction. She took the AMI Primary Training in Mexico City (1975), where she served as the course interpreter. She taught at Austin Montessori School and St. Alcuin Montessori School in Dallas, Texas before attending law school at American University in Washington, D.C., where she served as editor-in-chief of the American University Law Review and received a J.D., cum laude in 1984. Mary Caroline practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Texas for 17 years. In 2001 she returned to Montessori education as the Director of East Dallas Community School, a Montessori school serving an ethnically diverse group of primarily low-income families in inner city Dallas. She holds an M.Ed. in Montessori Integrative learning through The Institute for Educational Studies at Endicott College.



		Alice Renton USA	Multicultural Dimensions of Montessori Alice M. Renton (AMS-AMI) holds an M.A. in Latin American history. A native of Mexico, she has been a Montessori educator for 41 years in a variety of cultural settings, including migrant education, bilingual/multicultural programs, and teacher training in the United States and Latin America. She was a co-founder of the Consejo Interamericano Montessori (CIM), an inter-American education network. She is the author of In Other Words, a Spanish as a second language curriculum for Montessori programs.


	Podcasts


		Brian Swimme USA	Exploring the Cosmological Context of Montessori Education Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. (1978) from the University of Oregon specializing in gravitational dynamics, mathematical cosmology and singularity theory. He was a member of the faculty at the Institute for Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College in Oakland, California from 1983-1989. Brian's primary field of research is the nature of the evolutionary dynamics of the Universe. Swimme brings us a meaningful interpretation of the human as an emergent being within the Universe and Earth. His published work includes The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984), The Universe Story (Harper San Francisco, 1992) written with Thomas Berry, and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996). Swimme’s books have been translated into eight different languages.



		Fritjof Capra USA	Ecoliteracy Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966. He has done research on particle physics and systems theory, and has written popular books on the implications of science, notably The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, The Web of Life, Hidden Connections and is currently working on a book on the scientific contributions of Leonardo DiVinci.



		Sanford Jones USA	Music and the Montessori Imperative Sanford Jones is known internationally as a Montessori educator, lecturer and composer. He has made significant contributions to the Montessori movement, including the founding and directing of four schools in the USA. He was the founding president of the North American Montessori Teachers’ Association and is a former Executive Director of the Association Montessori Internationale-USA. A piano and piano pedagogy student of Frances Clark, and a member of Westminster Choir under John Finley Williamson, he taught at Westminster and The New School for Music Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the composer of three widely-used songbooks for children and thirteen children’s operas.



		Angeline Lillard USA	The Pedagogical Contributions of Maria Montessori Angeline Lillard, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, has been studying Montessori's methods for more than two decades. In her book Montessori: The Science behind the Genius, articles, educational DVD and speaking engagements, Angeline presents Montessori’s theoretical principles, the science research that has followed them, and how they are implemented in a Montessori classroom.



		Jean K. Miller Australia, USA	Montessori, Past, Present and Future Jean K. Miller, Ph.D., Director of Training for the Elementary Course, brings a wealth of experience and expertise in Montessori pedagogy. She has worked for twelve years in public Montessori education and has extensive experience in the private Montessori sector as well. She has presented many lectures and seminars throughout the world for various Montessori communities. Jean holds both the AMI Primary and Elementary diplomas. She earned an MA and Ph.D. in Education from Case Western Reserve University. She served on the AMI Board of Directors for 21 years, and she is an AMI Consultant and Examiner.



		Mary Raudonis Loew USA	Education for a New World Mary Raudonis Loew, Director of Training for the Primary Course at the Montessori Institute of North Texas (http://www.montessori-mint.org), earned her BA in education, psychology, and creative writing. She is an AMI teacher trainer, lecturer, examiner, consultant, and workshop leader. She co-founded the Montessori Institute of Atlanta in 1968 and has also held positions as a Primary guide, Elementary guide, and Head of School. She has over 40 years of experience in Montessori education and was co-convenor for two AMI International Study Conferences: Adolescence and Exploration (1979) and Education and Peace (1985).





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