Where have all the pianos gone? No one has time for them anymore

Latest News November 4, 2023

by Inna Faliks The students have too many activities and academic deadlines, the Montessori school principal informed me. This is not a good time for piano recitals, and the piano wasn’t needed either. “Please feel free to take the piano and donate it” elsewhere, the email ...

Want creative, happy kids? Put them on ‘kairos time’

Latest News August 7, 2021

by Kerry L. Malawista On the way to kindergarten, various accounts hold, Orville Wright passed a neighbor’s barn where he found an old, broken-down sewing machine.  For the next month, rather than attend school, he and a friend hid in the barn and reassembled the machine. When ...