This book shows the importance of Montessori education as a developmental, individualized, and learner-centered model that supports student learning from birth through adolescence.

Chapters offer profiles of Montessori classrooms with insight into how the materials in the learning environment, the adult educators, and the curriculum help learners flourish by building character, physical skills, and intellectual capacity.

Readers can use this book:

• In teacher education programs with undergraduate and graduate students to show connections to human development and research-based instructional practices.

• With students enrolled in Montessori training programs to support their understanding of the Montessori curriculum as being both comprehensive and integrated across the learning continuum (infants, early childhood, elementary, secondary classrooms).

• As a useful tool to support families enrolled in Montessori schools to better understand their child’s development and the benefits of this educational model throughout the learning continuum.

• To inform state and local policymakers of Montessori education as an empirical solution and proven option for families to meet the needs of all children.