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Montessori Makers Institute Residency

Montessori Makers Residency · Required Reading

What you’ll read.

The full required reading list by track. Title, author, and publication year so you can find each book at your library, your favorite indie, or anywhere else you prefer to buy books.

Before You Buy

Check your local library first.Most of these titles are widely available through public library systems, including ebook and audiobook loans through Libby and Hoopla — ask a librarian about inter-library loan for anything they don’t stock locally. You can also post in Montessori social media groups (Facebook, WhatsApp, Substack) to borrow or swap copies with other residents and educators in your network. Both moves can substantially reduce out-of-pocket cost for the program.

13 titles for the Primary track.

  • Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves

    Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

    Zaretta Hammond

  • Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

    Angeline Lillard

  • Other People's Children

    Lisa Delpit

  • Sensory Processing 101

    Dayna Abraham et al.

  • Teaching to Transgress

    bell hooks

  • The Absorbent Mind

    Maria Montessori

  • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

    Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz

  • The Discovery of the Child

    Maria Montessori

  • The Explosive Child

    Ross Greene

  • The Secret of Childhood

    Maria Montessori

  • The Whole-Brain Child

    Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

  • We Want to Do More Than Survive

    Bettina Love

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