Lifting All Children: Montessori as Social Justice Education

My talk will provide an overview of theories on social justice education and their overlap with Montessori methods and philosophy. I will also discuss empirical evidence on Montessori as a way to reduce the academic achievement gap for low-income students of color and discipline disproportionality between White and Black students. Finally, I will discuss challenges and important considerations for Montessori in the public sector.

Lee LeBoeuf

I am a second year graduate student at the University of Virginia studying developmental psychology with Dr. Angeline Lillard. Before starting graduate school, I worked as a first grade and then fifth grade math and science teacher at a public charter school in East Cleveland, Ohio. My experience as a teacher informs much of my research interests which focuses on Montessori education, particularly in low-income and minority neighborhoods.

Additional Resources:
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Measuring equity in Montessori communities: Can we use classroom data to reveal and resist implicit bias?
BY Genevieve D'Cruz 

​The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedegogy in Educating Other People's Children, by Lisa D.Delpit