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Ice Storm 2024 Student Drone Racing
By Monica Van Aken, Ed.D. 08 May, 2024
The pulse-pounding excitement of our student Ice Storm Drone Racing Competition at the Pettit Center last weekend was an electrifying spectacle to behold!
Junior high students engaging in parliamentary debate at MMS
By Monica Van Aken Ed.D and Ben Riggs author of Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons 07 May, 2024
Empowering Early Voices: How MMS Junior High Students Master Debate by Seventh Grade
AI Lessons: Environmental Impact of Large Language Models
By Greg Sukowaty 18 Apr, 2024
Learn about the environmental effects of large language models like GPT and how AI development can minimize carbon footprint.
What We're Reading
By Monica Van Aken, Ed.D. 17 Apr, 2024
Discover our recommended books for parents and students at Milwaukee Montessori School (MMS). Explore topics in education, child development, and more!
Social Interaction in Montessori Classrooms
By Lizz Loder 21 Feb, 2024
Montessori classrooms: A community fostering independence and cooperative learning. Empowering children through social interaction in a nurturing environment.
The Qualified Casa Educator
By Lizz Loder 17 Jan, 2024
"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." - Maria Montessori
Drone Teams and Quad Lab
By Monica Van Aken, Ed.D. 07 Nov, 2023
Contrary to what people may imagine, the MMS Drone Team and Quad Lab are not clubs where students take a drone out of a box and try to fly it.
Copy of Repetition in School
By Monica Van Aken, Ed.D. 11 Oct, 2023
Sometimes parents ask me why their child knows how to read a full page in a book one week, but seems dumbstruck when reading pages from the book the following week.
Milwaukee Montessori School student in Lower Elementary classroom
By Monica Van Aken, Ed.D. 03 Oct, 2023
Explore Anika's Harrowing Journey at MMS. When MMS was founded in 1961, we were preparing children for a different world. In the decades since then, communication and computing technology have allowed us to know and see what people are doing in real-time, anytime, in almost any place on this earth!
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