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Italian educator, innovator, "educational wonder-worker"

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First Montessori School - Casa dei Bambini apartment buildings.
Marie begins applying her research of early childhood education by taking in and educating the community's children as a sort of daycare while parents worked. The difference: her methodology was unique in that she took to the sidelines as the children carried out their own learning experiences in a learning-centered environment, instead of being instructed and taught by the teacher.

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The Montessori Method begins circulating in the US thanks to publications in McClure Magazine and an English translation of the method by Anne George (1912).

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Age of Educational Reform:

* Brown V Board - 1954-55
* "The Louisville Plan" to desegregate - 1956
* Gov. Bert T. Combs comes into office, begins major reforms to KY educational landscape - 1959
* More federal funding to improve education.
* One-room schools start to dissolve into district schools.

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First Montessori school opens in Lexington, Providence Montessori School, giving parents an alternative from the chaotic reform movements taking place in public schools.

Tony Guagliardo attends the school at three-years-old
-1965

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Tony Guagliardo marries Rene, both have interest in Montessori methodology.
Tony graduates from UK - 1986

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Tony and Rene Guagliardo travel to Perugia, Italy to begin their Montessori training program under the direction of Signorina Paolini, who worked alongside Maria Montessori - 1986

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Jacob's Creek School. Photo by Wolfgang Sauber

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Last one-room school in KY closes down, leaving parents with public schools as the only educational program to send their children outside of religious or private institutions. - 1987

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Tony and Rene complete their Association Montessori International program, gaining their AMI diplomas.
They return to US and open the school, Montessori's House of the Children, to children ages three to six years - 1987

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(KERA) Photo by The Prichard Committee of Academic Excellence

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Kentucky passes The Kentucky Education Reform Act, overhauling the whole of the KY Education system, which the General Assembly labeled as "unconstitutional" - 1990

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Versailles Montessori School incorporates in KY, gaining tax exemption and expanding services to toddlers and elementary age children. Seen as a sign of relief to the small town of Versailles to any opposed to the public school system's disorganization - 1994

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Campus relocates to current location, adding space for larger classrooms and outdoor learning experiences - 1997