Woodland Hill Montessori School

Today, as a member of the NYSAIS (New York State Association of Independent Schools) and WHMS Head of School,  I visited the offices of Roy McDonald and Ronald Canestrari to talk about Woodland Hill Montessori School.  It was nice to tell them about our great school and the benefits that Woodland Hill has in our surrounding [...]

This week is Montessori Education Week! Montessori education was established 105 years ago, and proves to continue to be the most natural, meaningful and effective way to educate children. Maria Montessori was a three-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize- in 1949, 1950, and 1951, and Italy’s first female medical doctor. By observing how children [...]

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Recently our waste free committee at school met to discuss ways to make our school more friendly to the environment. Here is an article about other school’s efforts to make lunches with less waste. This is part of making Woodland Hill the best! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/business/energy-environment/education-officials-and-retailers-push-for-environmentally-friendly-school-lunches.html

At the latest Heads of School conference, we were swept away by a wonderful leadership seminar entitled, The Music Paradigm. Maetro Roger Nierenberg, showed the effect of different styles of leadership in such an experiential and moving way. He took the string section of an orchestra, who were gathered together but had never played together [...]

Hello, I wanted to share information with you about the conference I went to on Wednesday and Thursday. I was appointed to the NYSAIS Board and spent the day on Wednesday in the Board meeting. We had some big issues to discuss, and it was interesting to see how the meeting was run and members [...]