Parenting at Home
Separation anxiety at drop-off: easier goodbyes start at home
Tears at the classroom door? What helps with separation anxiety at drop-off, from short goodbyes at home to telling your child when you'll be back.
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How children grow, life in a Montessori classroom, ideas for home, choosing a school, and our own school news.
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Choosing & Enrolling
Does Montessori work? What the research says, and what it doesn't
Does Montessori work? What the strongest studies found, including the kindergarten year, and what to ask any school you are considering.
Community & Events
Understanding the Four Stages of Development
The Santa Barbara Independent on Montessori's four planes of development and sensitive periods, and how our guides and parents meet each stage.
Community & Events
Choosing the Right Path: South Coast Montessori’s Approach to Holistic Child Development
Our Head of School answers Noozhawk's 2024 school guide: how children choose their work, class sizes, teacher training, and how admissions work.
Classroom Life
The benefits of multi-age grouping, from the youngest to the oldest
Worried a mixed-age classroom will overwhelm your youngest or hold back your oldest? Here is what multi-age grouping gives a child at every age.
Child Development
The planes of development: what your child needs at each age
Montessori's planes of development explain why your child changes every few years, and what helps at each age, from infancy to twelve.
Montessori Method
The role of the Montessori teacher: what a guide does all day
Nobody stands at the front of a Montessori classroom. Here is what the Montessori teacher, or guide, does all day, and what it means for your child.
Community & Events
Young Montessori Students Create Recipe for Community Service
Noozhawk on our Primary students, who made hot chocolate jars and oat bars and gave more than $700 to the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County.
Community & Events
Going Out Field Trips Help South Coast Montessori Students Go Above and Beyond in Learning
Noozhawk on Going Out at South Coast Montessori: Elementary students plan their own field trips, catch sand crabs, and learn from the sea.
Community & Events
The Pillars of Leadership, Grace, and Courtesy
The Santa Barbara Independent on how our mixed-age Elementary classrooms teach leadership, kindness, and resolving conflict, with Melinda Creman.
Community & Events
South Coast Montessori School Is Dedicated to Meeting the Physical, Emotional, Social and Intellectual Needs of Each Child
In Noozhawk's 2023-24 school guide, South Coast Montessori explains lesson journals, one-to-one goal meetings, ratios, and how parents take part.
Community & Events
Local Alumni Come Full Circle to Work at Their Former Schools
Noozhawk on teachers who returned to their old schools: Brian Cogswell and Leah both went to school on our campus, and came back to work here.
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Montessori Method
What the method is, why it works the way it does, and what the words you hear on a tour mean.
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Child Development
What is changing in your child from birth to twelve, and what each stage is ready for.
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Parenting at Home
Small, practical ways to bring what works in the classroom into your own home.
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Classroom Life
What children do all day in a Montessori classroom, from the morning work period to lunch.
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Choosing & Enrolling
Help with the decision in front of you: what to look for in a school, and what to ask.
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Community & Events
School news, the events that shape our year, and what the local press has written about us.
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