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Bergamo’s

year of advancedMontessori courses

2010-2011

Embracing the past, enriching the present, envisioning the future...

“It is very interactive and goes beyondwhat we present to the children.”

“Develops subject areas you neverthought you would touch on.”

“The content of the course is denseand intense and keeps you on your toes.”

“The cultural side of living in Italy is fantastic.The small villages, art, paintings, the bells tellingthe time, beautiful and inspirational.”

FondazioneCentro InternazionaleStudi Montessoriani

For more information:

International Centrefor MontessoriStudies Foundation

A non-profit educational institution(D.P.R. 27-9-1980, n. 931)

Via Pignolo, 73 - 24121 Bergamo - ItalyFax & phone +39 035 [email protected]

AssociationMontessoriInternationale

161, Koninginneweg1075 CN Amsterdam - HollandPhone: + 31 20 6798932Fax: + 31 20 [email protected]

A NAMTA Conference CelebratingBergamo’s


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The Montessori Lineage from

Cosmic Education to Erdkinder27-29 April, 2011

Bergamo, Italy

Bergamo’s


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1961-2011

Click here to register!

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Registration deadline is April 14, 2011

A NAMTA Conference Celebrating Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year of Advanced Montessori Courses

1961-2011

Bergamo’s Fiftieth Year of Advanced Montessori Courses


My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding on that certification from the secondary school to the university, but of individu-als passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity, through their own effort of will, which constitutes the inner evolu-tion of the individual.

—Maria Montessori

The Montessori Lineage from Cosmic Education to Erdkinder

April 27-29, 2011


Wednesday, 27 April, 2011

5:00–7:00 p.m. • Welcome registration and informal reception Bergamo Centre

Thursday, 28 April, 20119:00–9:45 a.m.Bergamo: The Montessori Lineage from the Advanced Montessori Method to Cosmic Education to ErdkinderBaiba Krumins GrazziniFifty years ago and more, Camillo Grazzini and Eleonora Honegger began collaborating with Mario Montessori in the process that had already led from the Advanced Montessori Method of the early 20th century to the Cosmic Education approach of later years. Later still, the same pioneering spirit led to Bergamo’s involvement with the Erdkinder project in America.

10:00–10:45 a.m.Adolescence as a Second BirthRaniero Regni“Within the secret adolescent self, there hides the intimate vocation of the human being.” The adolescent needs to give birth to him/herself, to educate him/herself through work. The secret of adolescence holds one of the greatest challenges to contemporary education.

10:45–11:15 a.m. • Coffee Break



11:15 a.m.–NoonPractical Life at San Lorenzo: Implications for ErdkinderPaola TrabalziniProfessor Trabalzini provides historical documentation, in photographic and written form, about the self-care and practical life activities first ex-perienced by the San Lorenzo children in 1907, activities which find their parallel in the kind of real-life practical work performed by adolescents in a farm context.

Noon–1:30 p.m. • Luncheon 1:30–2:15 p.m.Montessori Math: Precision Linked with Vision (from Childhood to Adolescence), A Tribute to Camillo GrazziniJohn McNamaraOne of the outstanding Montessori teach-ers for math, technology, and science in the United States at both the elementary and adolescent levels, John McNamara traces his clarity of Montessori vision back to the structure and precision of the Montessori philosophy, materials, and methodology he learned in Bergamo.

2:30–3:15 p.m.Bergamo and the Renewal of the Montessori Adolescent Land ExperimentDavid KahnBergamo was the guiding force for the revival of the Erdkinder as the Montessori “experiment for the experiment”, as derived from Montessori texts and brought into realization through Mr Kahn’s 32-year relationship with Camillo Grazzini.

3:15–3:45 p.m. • Coffee break


April 27-29, 2011

3:45–4:30 p.m.A Swedish Farm School: Lessons in IndependenceJenny HöglundJenny Höglund describes optimal indepen-dence as practiced at her school from the elementary years, during which students re-ally commit to daily-life activities and main-tenance of a school (as well as the usual aca-demic pursuits), to the “Erdkinder-inspired” adolescent farm community, for which the

students prepared their own housing facilities, including painting, renova-tion, and planning their spaces and activities.

Friday, 29 April, 20119:00–9:45 a.m.The Adolescent on the Farm: What They Showed UsLaurie Ewert-KrockerNow in her 12th year of working strictly from the framework of Montes-sori’s educational syllabus for the young adolescent (ages 12 to 15), Laurie Ewert-Krocker presents a portrayal of implementing Montessori theory into practice. Her sustained work with the farm model centers on the psychological characteristics of the adolescent as universal and the farm as the optimal prepared environment for the Montessori “school of experience in the elements of social life”.

10:00–10:45 a.m.The Montessori High School in AmericaMichael WaskiRecently trained in Bergamo, Mr Waski shares how Montessori has informed his 10 years of high school teaching experience, with a special focus on mathematics from the perspective of a psychodiscipline.

10:45–11:15 a.m. • Coffee break



11:15 a.m.–NoonThe Montessori College Oost: Architectural Designs for a Montessori Secondary School in The NetherlandsHerman HertzbergerDistinguished Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger, himself a former Montessori pupil, articulates his adventure in space in designing the first building in Europe planned and built as a Montessori secondary school, the Montessori College Oost. This junior-senior high school in Amsterdam serves 1600 pupils between 12 and 18 years. Its inter-nal layout is modeled on a small “town” consisting of flights of stairs, ramps, “streets”, and squares”. Hertzberger has also designed a number of exemplary Montessori elementary schools in the Netherlands.

Noon–2:00 p.m. • Bergamo’s Birthday Luncheon with Tributes

2:15–3:00 p.m. The Association Montessori Internationale: Completing the Planes of Education—The Global ChallengeLynne LawrenceAs a result of her world travels, Lynne Lawrence is able to view the big picture about the role of the developmental continuum in different cul-tures, emphasizing the universal application of Montessori principles in the context of international growth.

3:15–4:00 p.m.Concluding RemarksBaiba Krumins Grazzini, Jenny Höglund, David Kahn

Mario Montessori Camillo Grazzini Baiba Krumins Grazzini

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April 27-29, 2011

Conference SpeakersBaiba Krumins Grazzini is Director of Training in Bergamo, Italy, at the ‘In-ternational Centre for Montessori Studies’ Foundation (Fondazione ‘Centro Internazionale Studi Montessoriani’). She has been involved with Bergamo’s AMI elementary training course since 1975; became an AMI elementary trainer in 1986; and joined Camillo Grazzini as Director of Training in 1992. Baiba Krumins Grazzini holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) as well as the AMI 3-6 Diploma (London) and the AMI 6-12 Diploma (Bergamo). As the late Camillo Grazzini’s closest collaborator, Baiba Krumins Grazzini co-researched, and sometimes co-authored, papers and projects with respect to many aspects of Montessori elementary work; she has continued to publish in her own name. She has been a member of the AMI Scientific Pedagogy Group since 2004.

* * * * * Laurie Ewert-Krocker is head teacher at the Hershey Montessori School Adolescent Community (Huntsburg, OH). She holds AMI Diplomas at both the Primary and Elementary levels, a BA in English from John Carroll Uni-versity (OH), and an MA in English from the University of Washington. Ms. Ewert-Krocker was the founding head teacher of the Hershey farm program and is a longtime faculty member of NAMTA’s Montessori Orientation to Adolescent Studies.

Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect, completed his studies at the Techni-cal University of Delft in 1958, where he was a professor from 1970 to 1999. Mr Hertzberger can be considered, along with Aldo van Eyck, as the influence behind the Dutch structuralist movement of the 1960s. He believes that the architect’s role is not to provide a complete solution but to provide a spatial framework to be eventually filled in by the users. Mr Hertzberger has been a guest teacher at universities/architectural institutes in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is also an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects.

Jenny Höglund is an Auxiliary Trainer in the AMI Training of Trainers Pro-gramme at the Elementary level. She earned her AMI Elementary Diploma at the Ohio Montessori Training Institute and her AMI Primary Diploma at the Washington (DC) Montessori Institute. She served at the Bergamo centre from 2004 to 2006 as part of her training of trainers course. Since 2006 she has been a lecturer for the Bergamo centre. She has worked with Montes-sori adolescents in Sweden from ages 12 to 15. She intends to specialize in adolescent teacher preparation as she prepares to be a fully vested AMI Elementary Trainer.



David Kahn has been Executive Director of the North American Montessori Teach-ers’ Association for more than 30 years. He has 17 years of Montessori teaching experience, 12 of them as teaching principal at Ruffing Montessori School (Cleve-land Heights, OH). Mr Kahn was Founding Director of the Hershey Montessori School Adolescent Community in Huntsburg, Ohio, an internationally acclaimed Montessori model for adolescent education. He now serves as founding director of Montessori High School at University Circle (Cleveland, OH). Mr Kahn holds a BA in fine arts and classics from the University of Notre Dame (IN) as well as the AMI Montessori Elementary Diploma from Bergamo.

Lynne Lawrence, Executive Director of the Association Montessori Internationale, has also served as AMI Primary (3-6) Director of Training at the Maria Montessori Institute (London, England, formerly Maria Montessori Training Organisation) since 1989. Since 1978, she has worked on Help the Children projects in Kenya and Tanzania. She holds a BA in humanities and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce, which was founded in 1754 to “remove bar-riers to social progress”. She is author of Montessori Read and Write: A Parent’s Guide to Literacy for Children (1998).

John McNamara is head of school and founding director of the middle school at Ruff-ing Montessori School West (Rocky River, OH). He received his BA from the University of Windsor, Ontario, his master’s in educational administration from the University of Toronto, Ontario, and the AMI Elementary Diploma from Bergamo.

Raniero Regni graduated in philosophy from the University of Perugia and earned his doctorate in pedagogical research at the University of Roma Tre. He was a teacher of history and philosophy at a secondary school (lyceum) and is at present an associate professor of social pedagogy and adult education in the faculty of educational sciences of Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta (LUMSA) in Rome. He also serves as a referee for the graduate course in educational and formative sciences of LUMSA in Gubbio. He has lectured at the University of Bilbao, the University of Stockholm, the University of Paris, and the University of Ramòn Llull of Barcelona (Fundaciò Pere Tarres).

Paola Trabalzini is a professor of the history of education in the education and training sciences degree course at Rome’s ‘La Sapienza’ University. She also lectures on the history of education for the teacher training courses of the Opera Nazionale Montessori (ONM, Rome). She is a member of the ONM’s Montessori Higher Institute for Research and Training, for which she supervised the critical edition of Il Metodo della Pedagogia scientifica [The Montessori Method]. She writes for Italian and international educational magazines. In 2005, she published the book Maria Montessori da Il Metodo a La scoperta del bambino [Maria Mon-tessori from ‘The Montessori Method’ to ‘The Discovery of the Child’].

Michael Waski is a math teacher at Montessori High School at University Circle in Cleveland, OH. He holds the AMI Montessori Elementary Diploma from the Bergamo centre. He completed NAMTA’s Orientation to Adolescent Studies in 2005.


April 27-29, 2011

Lodging

Transportation

Single and double rooms are available at Seminario Vescovile Giovanni XXIII, Via Arena, 11, Bergamo.

Plan to arrive Wednesday afternoon, 27 April and to depart Saturday, 30 April before 10 a.m.

Single room: $95 USD each night

Double room: $125 USD each night

Please select room choice and dates on the registration form on the following page.

Recommended transportation from Malpensa Airport to Bergamo: Take the airport shuttle bus to Milano Centrale train station and then the train directly to Bergamo Centrale station.

More information is available at the following websites:

Shuttle Bus: http://www.malpensashuttle.it/index.html

Train: http://www.trenitalia.com/

Transportation from Città Bassa to Città Alta Seminary:Take the 1A bus from Porta Nuova to Città Alta and get off at the last stop.

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Tuition: Tuition fees include Thursday and Friday luncheons.AMI or NAMTA member tuition fee: ❑ $300 USD (❑ $315 USD after April 14) Non-member tuition fee: ❑ $360 USD ( ❑ $375 USD after April 14)

Lodging: Double or Single Room at Seminario Vescovile Giovanni XXIII Lodging fees include breakfast each day

Double room (two single beds): ❑ $125 (1 night, 27 April) ❑ $250 (2 nights, 27-28 April) ❑ $375 (3 nights, 27-28-29 April)

Single room (one bed): ❑ $95 (1 night, 27 April) ❑ $190 (2 nights, 27-28 April) ❑ $285 (3 nights, 27-28-29 April)

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