Blueblocks Blog

When parents and educators ask what teenagers can really do, the honest answer requires looking at adolescents who have been given work that can actually…

This blog draws on two publicly archived sources: the verbatim presentation transcript of three Blue Blocks adolescents at the 30th International Montessori Congress in Mexico,…

When we approached Ronak Samantray — CEO and founder of TakeMe2Space, an Indian satellite company that builds and launches real spacecraft — about collaborating with…

We wrote earlier about how to raise a curious child — the small, daily, slightly resistant questions a three-year-old asks about bedtime, shoes, and the…

In the final session of a four-week palaeontology program I ran for the Erdkinder cohort at our school, one of the students asked me if…

Twelve adolescents at our school joined the first session of a four-week palaeontology program this April. Eight returned for Session 2. Four returned for Session…

Three adolescents from Blue Blocks Montessori School in Hyderabad stood on the main stage of the 30th International Montessori Congress in Mexico, in front of…

A five-year-old stood at his stall at our annual school event and explained his project to visitors he had never met before. He had no…