Roger and I visited MacDonald Montessori School in St. Paul, Minnesota last week.

It’s a great school. As we visited each classroom, every teacher wanted to meet us and share their work. There was such energy–you could feel it. Each child and adult and everyone together had purpose and ownership. The walls were filled with invitations to learn about their work, and it was difficult to pass by without engaging in each piece of documentation and display. They have the courage to be unique, to invest in intensive study of two approaches to being with children, and then to create their very own work. It was a truly wonderful day.

I would be interested to know what you think makes a school great . . .

Roger and Beth MacDonald

Beth with son Aaron

And speaking of pride…while in St. Paul, we had the honor and pleasure of meeting Nancy and John Rosenow’s son Matt and his wife Chris and new baby Sylvie.