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We’re mapping the real state of Montessori compensation — and your anonymous data helps fuel justice, advocacy, and educator wellbeing.
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We’re creating an anonymous space for Montessori guides, assistants, leaders, and staff to share the real experiences of working — and training — in Montessori today. Your stories help reveal patterns, support healing, and move our movement toward dignity, belonging, and justice.
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The Idea of Peace Rebellion
The Peace Rebellion: Montessori in Motion
The Peace Rebellion was born from a simple Montessori truth: when we invest in children through education that meets their needs and honors their humanity, we lay the foundation for a more peaceful world. Yet today, peace feels fragile. We live in a time marked by division, isolation, and hesitation to fully embrace one another. The Peace Rebellion is our commitment to imagine something better.
We exist to bring Montessori into the public consciousness as a practical path toward meaningful change — an education that equips children to meet their own needs while also honoring the dignity of others. By cultivating empathy, collaboration, and problem-solving, we prepare young people to create partnerships everywhere they go.
And we believe Montessori doesn’t live only inside the classroom. Montessori lives in the periphery — the edges where decisions are made, cultures are shaped, and harm is either interrupted or allowed to continue. It lives in the way we welcome families, or gatekeep them. In the way we respond to behavior with support instead of punishment. In the way we treat educators as human beings, not replaceable labor. In the way we talk about “fit,” and who is allowed to belong. In the policies, the tone, the leadership, the language, the silence.
Because Montessori is justice. Montessori is kindness. Montessori is dignity. Montessori is the daily practice of choosing what is ethical and helpful for greater humanity — especially when it’s inconvenient.
This is our rebellion: choosing peace intentionally, practicing it daily, and nurturing it in the face of all that challenges it. Not only to protect Montessori as a method, but to protect it as a moral stance — a commitment to children’s liberation, to adult responsibility, and to building environments worthy of the people inside them.
Peace isn’t a poster on the wall. Peace is what we do on the edges.
Our Approach
The Peace Rebellion: Montessori as Movement is a community dedicated to advancing justice, equity, and peace through Montessori education. We work to create learning environments that nurture belonging, uplift underrepresented voices, and ensure every child has access to an education that transforms their future.
