{"id":31711,"date":"2016-02-23T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=31711"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:17:56","slug":"magnolia-montessori-school-in-oxford-gears-up-for-mississippi-montessori-education-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/magnolia-montessori-school-in-oxford-gears-up-for-mississippi-montessori-education-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia Montessori School in Oxford gears up for Mississippi Montessori Education Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Students and staff at <strong>Magnolia Montessori School<\/strong> (MMS) in Oxford, Mississippi, are planning for the observance of <strong>Mississippi Montessori Education Week<\/strong>, designated February 28\u2013March 5 by Governor <strong>Phil Bryant<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The Montessori approach may be one of the best-kept secrets in education,&#8221; says school director <strong>Stacey Sanford<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;We believe all parents should know about this option, and visiting our school is a great way to learn more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31720\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Body-text.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31720\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31720 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Body-text.jpg?resize=640%2C426\" alt=\"Body text\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Body-text.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Body-text.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Magnolia Montessori School&#8217;s students is ready to let this well-kept educational secret out of the bag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Professionals affirm that the Montessori approach is on the cutting edge of modern education methods.\u00a0 Multi-age groupings, a rich and extensive curriculum with hands-on materials, cross-discipline learning, and care of the global environment are just a few of the characteristics.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOne thing many of our parents and students appreciate is that Montessori classrooms maintain academic excellence without any grades, tests, or homework,&#8221; says Sanford. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The school welcomes members of the community to take a firsthand look at the child-centered, individualized approach developed almost 100 years ago by <strong>Dr. Maria Montessori<\/strong>, the first female physician in Italy. To schedule a visit, contact Stacey Stanford at the school office, at 662.234.0344 or visit the website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnoliamontessorischool.com\">www.magnoliamontessorischool.com<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and staff at Magnolia Montessori School (MMS) in Oxford, Mississippi, are planning for the observance of Mississippi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":31719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6539],"tags":[1147,6218,7912,7910,6882,7911],"class_list":["post-31711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events","tag-education","tag-magnolia-montessori-school","tag-mississippi-montessori-education-week","tag-montessori-schools","tag-phil-bryant","tag-stacey-stanford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Montessori_FEAT.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}