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Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, Italy. Photo credits: Montessori150.org
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Maria Montessori became one of the first women to obtain a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Rome Photo credits: Montessori150.org
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Audits courses in pedagogy at the University of Rome; reads all major works in educational philosophy over the past 200 years. Photo credits: Montessori150.org
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Montessori was appointed as Director of the Orthophrenic School from 1899 to 1901 (E.M. Standing, Montessori: Her Life and Works)
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Dr. Montessori was made a Professor at the University of
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Inaugurated at 53 Via dei Marsi in the San Lorenzo district of Rome
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About 100 students attended at Città di Castello. Wrote her first book, Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica applicato all’educazione infantile nelle Case dei Bambini. The English edition is titled The Montessori Method (1912).
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Ran the First International Training Course in her apartment in Rome. Montessori Educational Association founded in the United States. Its membership includes Alexander Graham Bell, his wife, Mabel Bell, S.S. McClure, and President Wilson’s daughter, Margaret Woodrow Wilson. First trip to the United States.
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Second trip to the United States, accompanied by her son, Mario. and ran the Third International Course. At the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, showcased the Montessori Glass Classroom
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Conducted training programs for teachers worldwide, following her exile to India. Published books and ran International Montessori Congresses with her son by her side.
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Maria Montessori dies in the Netherlands.
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Nancy McCormick Rambusch attended the AMI Congress in Paris where she met Mario Montessori who encouraged her to take the training and bring Montessori (back) to America.
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Rambusch started conducted Montessori classes for her own children and others in NYC
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Rambusch and her family moved to Greenwich, Connecticut
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Whitby School opens on Cliffdale Road in a stable of the Terrien family with an enrollment of 17 (3-to-7-year-olds) and Nancy Rambusch as Headmistress (http://learn.whitbyschool.org/whitby-school-history#1950s) Photo Credits: Whitby School
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Mario Montessori appointed Rambusch to serve as the US representative for AMI
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Six months after being appointed by Mario Montessori, Rambusch, along with the support of the parent-advocates founded the American Montessori Society Photo credits: AMS
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Mario Montessori and his wife visited the US in NY
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TIME Magazine featured Rambusch, Whitby School, and the AMS in an article entitled The Joy of Learning. This opened the floodgates. Interest in the Montessori training programs increased. The Montessori Movement (re)gained prominence in the US. http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,869907,00.html
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AMI recognized Rambusch’s book as her contribution to the Montessori Movement. AMI requested multiple copies to be sent to the Netherlands. Photo Credits: Montessori Services
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Jan 11, 1963, AMI withdrew its recognition of AMS; Rambusch drummed up support among educators and parents for Montessori; AMS in the brink of disintegration. AMS hired Cleo Monson in Jan 1963 as Executive Secretary to reorganize AMS; AMS moved from CT to NY. Photo Credits: AMS
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Cleo Monson became the first National Director of AMS. Under her tutelage, the AMS survived its impending demise following its challenges in the first few years. She worked tirelessly (re)organize AMS. She served for 5 years and retired in 1978. Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, v22 n3 p18-25 Fall 2010
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Held across the United States, AMS organized meetings, seminars, regional conferences, and annual conferences. For 2021, it will be a virtual gathering because of the pandemic. For 2022, it is scheduled to be in Nashville, TN.
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AMS organized its First International Symposium in Athens, Greece from Aug 13 to 15,1979, Bretta Weiss became the National Director when Cleo Monson retired in 1978.
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Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (MACTE), founded in 1995, is dedicated to improving academic degree and certificate programs for Montessori professional educators who teach and lead in schools at the Infant and Toddler through Secondary II levels and to assure the public of their quality. https://www.macte.org/about-macte/
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AMS launched the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector
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The Montessori Public Policy Initiative (MPPI) was officially announced during the 2013 AMS Conference in Orlando, FL, AMI/USA and AMS formed MPPI in 2013 to be the unified voice in advocacy and a platform for coordination of public policy efforts. https://montessoriadvocacy.org/about/#story Photo credits: MPPI
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Maria Montessori's legacy continues as AMS launches the Instructor Academy with Elementary (Oct 5, 2020), Primary and Infant/Toddler (Jan 25, 2021).
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The first virtual AMS conference amidst the COVID19 pandemic on March 5 and 6, 2021. Photo credits: AMS
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Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Nashville, TN
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Marriott Copley Place/Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
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Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, FL
