# montessori (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover montessori. Page: Feed: --- ## [Neural Networks Zero to Hero concluded](https://breno.bearblog.dev/neural-networks-zero-to-hero-concluded/) _2026-08-21 · breno · Breno_ So, que especial. Concluí o curso do Karpathy. Já considerei um vídeo dele depois que ele discute sobre redes neurais. Foi o vídeo seguinte ao último vídeo do curso. Sobre a pesquisa, trabalhando com o contexto de mechanistic interpretability, para entender melhor com foco no paper do NeurIPS Workshop. Sobre code, PyTorch, para pesquisa, para engenharia. Truly important. Great. Really great… ## [0 and 1](https://breno.bearblog.dev/0-and-1/) _2026-08-20 · breno · Breno_ So, escrevo aqui sobre a importância de criação de livros para os filhos. Realizei a leitura das primeiras páginas com meu filho e funcionou. Like, I know him. There is no one better than me to write text that can ajudar a ele no seu aprendizado. There is no love with the most intention to educate him. Truly special. Focus. Really great learning. ## [How Many Cubes Are Hiding? — The Guessing Game Across Three Ages](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/how-many-cubes-are-hiding-the-guessing) _2026-08-20 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ The hidden-cubes game across three ages — from finding one hidden cube to counting the 27 in a solid block, including the one in the middle no one can see. ## [Writing books](https://breno.bearblog.dev/writing-books/) _2026-08-19 · breno · Breno_ So, penso que achei um jeito bom de estudar matemática e conciliar com o ensino para o meu filho. Composing books for my son. Really interesting. Percebi que para discutir com o Ilya, like, para realizar pesquisa em um nível de elite, precisaria mesmo ter uma grande mathematics foundation e, ao mesmo tempo, penso na educação do meu filho. Sometimes, fico horas buscando algum livro em uma livraria… ## [The Budget Already Told the Staff What the School Believes](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/the-budget-already-told-the-staff) _2026-08-19 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A board chair once asked me to help her school figure out why staff morale kept declining despite what she called, genuinely, their best year of fundraising. ## [Just what really importa para a vida](https://breno.bearblog.dev/just-what-really-importa-para-a-vida/) _2026-08-18 · breno · Breno_ So, considerei a pesquisa e o trabalho. Truly special para cuidar do meu filho. Mas pensei no que cuidar. Com meu filho, assisti Dragon Ball Super em vez de focar em concluir logo, com pressa, o curso do Karpathy. Com meu filho, busquei to write books for him and not to just complete goals established for myself only, like, to focus on finishing the Sterne book. Truly special. Step by step.… ## [Your Child Counts the Cubes She Can See. The Ones She Can't Are the Whole Point.](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/your-child-counts-the-cubes-she-can) _2026-08-17 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ Ask a child how many cubes are in a stack and she counts only the ones she can see. Teaching her to count the hidden ones is where spatial sense begins. ## [Research perspective considering Ilya advising](https://breno.bearblog.dev/research-perspective-considering-ilya-advising/) _2026-08-17 · breno · Breno_ So, great perspective when the research is considered with a great mind. Like, there is a path to consider for AI research and there are great researchers. And, even for engineering, it is about research too. AI has this nature, research and engineering. Skim paper is great, but to consider the reading for key papers. That is great. Besides reading, the writing. Working for the NeurIPS 2026… ## [Research with code engineering and discussion](https://breno.bearblog.dev/research-with-code-engineering-and-discussion/) _2026-08-16 · breno · Breno_ So, penso que consegui chegar em um modelo melhor de trabalho de pesquisa com os modelos atuais, com o paradigma atual. It consists in code engineering and discussion with AI models. Assim, the execution is not with him and the code is there, the progress is there. I run the cells and check the results and we discuss. The autonomy is just um passo atrás em relação à execution ser com os modelos.… ## [Pesquisa com compromisso e verdade](https://breno.bearblog.dev/pesquisa-com-compromisso-e-verdade/) _2026-08-15 · breno · Breno_ So, estava pesquisando sobre uma ideia que tive. Essa ideia, a motivação, actually, continua no sentido do interesse, mas o modo que o paper estava se compondo, não estava legal. It was not mine. Estou considerando uso de agentes para o engineering do paper, mas, estava além disso. Apenas discuti o processo de ideação e o desenho do paper começou a ser discutido pelo Fable 5. So, it did not work.… ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N54uOlTeNsYn) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [Two Kinds of Play — Why the Chain That Never Breaks Teaches More Than the Tower That Does](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/two-kinds-of-play-why-the-chain-that) _2026-08-15 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ Two kinds of play: combining parts into a whole, and transforming one unbroken whole into another. Why Fröbel thought the second goes deeper. ## [Leitura de Montessori](https://breno.bearblog.dev/leitura-de-montessori/) _2026-08-14 · breno · Breno_ Considerei a leitura de Montessori. Mas, deixe-me considerar o contexto. Publiquei a Bragat. E, pensei no app, no teste, quando me dei conta que estava lá e tem a Biblioteca. The take action ajudou nisso, percebi os ganhos. Consigo então, percebi, ler a tradução na Biblioteca da Bragat. Então, li pelo celular Antropologia Pedagógica. Really great. Sobre a pesquisa em IA, the judge focus. Consegui… ## [Strike the Match🧸🌈🦄](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/strike-the-match) _2026-08-14 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ Modelling play- the balance with child-led play, and why I never say "now you do it" ## [3 anos](https://breno.bearblog.dev/3-anos/) _2026-08-13 · breno · Breno_ Hoje o meu filhinho completa 3 anos de idade. 3 aninhos. Que alegria. Escrevo aqui para ele. Como um caminho instanciado da luta Para A Busca do Céu. Inteligência artificial e educação infantil. Inteligência artificial como uma tecnologia que pode ajudar a humanidade a Olhar Para As Coisas do Alto e perceber que a ficção social construída do Mundo não tem valor. Educação infantil para educar o meu… ## [The Snake That Folds Into a Cube — and Why Nine Won't](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/the-snake-that-folds-into-a-cube) _2026-08-13 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ The folding cube puzzle, across three ages — from making it bend to proving why 8 cubes fold into a cube but 9 can't. Real maths in a chain of blocks. ## [There is no shortcut for the research](https://breno.bearblog.dev/there-is-no-shortcut-for-the-research/) _2026-08-12 · breno · Breno_ So, pensei sobre essa frase em outro contexto, but, man, for the individual level is this. There is no shortcut for the research. Just work, and read. With the models, the automation can be considered for the R&D, but, even so, there is the need to the original thinking. That is great. So, focus em engineering, like, switching, exploring cursos, for the research, the same perspective and bringing… ## [The Guide Who Kept Asking Permission Was Not the Problem](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/the-guide-who-kept-asking-permission) _2026-08-12 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A head of school called me in her second year with a specific complaint about a guide in her upper elementary program. ## [Research failure](https://breno.bearblog.dev/research-failure/) _2026-08-11 · breno · Breno_ So, the path seemed great para o que se queria pesquisar e parece que não tem nada agora e que já se tem muitos trabalhos com mais clareza do que buscam. That is frustrating, but that is the way for learning. There is time to consider. Submission for NeurIPS paper is the goal. Like, is it about LLM judges? To consider, really to consider that. Pensando agora na leitura dos papers. Tem que ter a… ## [One Chain of Cubes, a Hundred Shapes — and the Idea Fröbel Got From Studying Crystals](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/one-chain-of-cubes-a-hundred-shapes) _2026-08-10 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ Make a folding cube puzzle from 8 blocks and tape — one chain, a hundred shapes. A 5-minute DIY that teaches real geometry, from Fröbel's crystal studies. ## [The engineering learning](https://breno.bearblog.dev/the-engineering-learning/) _2026-08-10 · breno · Breno_ So, great focus on research in terms of what research is. Like, lembro do que Montessori falou no livro Pedagogical Anthropology, sobre a pesquisa ser não para acumular conhecimento e sim para to produce something original, novel. E estou focando nisso. That is really great. Bragat Research for that. Special. E, isso, antes, já foi definida a Bragat, just simple product. A guidance, daily one. So,… ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AI9CNg97D4Yh) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [The research structure to investigate the models](https://breno.bearblog.dev/the-research-structure-to-investigate-the-models/) _2026-08-09 · breno · Breno_ So, pensando sobre the research to investigate the models in the literature instantiation. That is great. Reading the AI R&D Automation paper estou aprendendo sobre como seria the mode to consider that. They use the frontier closed models. And that is great. Precisamos, first, compreender o que seria entender, to verify in some sense. Also, this question is important. Does it needs to verify? The… ## [The principal task](https://breno.bearblog.dev/the-principal-task/) _2026-08-08 · breno · Breno_ So, sure, the principal task is to raise my boy, but talking about the work, the focus, like, to really learn a skill and really focus on work and contribute, I think, with really good heart, that que seria sobre pesquisa em IA. To really understand the learning, and to contribute to the frontier. That is special. Para A Busca do Céu. That is special. So, the most important and, actually,… ## [Fröbel Used One Word for Folding Paper and Raising a Child](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/frobel-used-one-word-for-folding) _2026-08-08 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ Fröbel used one word — unfolding — for folded paper AND for a child growing up. The motion between flat and solid is his whole philosophy. The framework. ## [The agents do not demonstrate yet criticism in thinking](https://breno.bearblog.dev/the-agents-do-not-demonstrate-yet-criticism-in-thinking/) _2026-08-07 · breno · Breno_ So, reading the paper that the authors investigated about the agents conduct AI R&D. Interessante observar the failures. Eles, os agentes, não conseguem focar. Basically that. Eles elaboram hipóteses, pensam em se dedicar nas hipóteses, montam um plano, e, com poucas horas em uma hipótese, já decidem que seguirão essa e ignoram as outras. The writing is ruim. They can not write good prose. That is… ## [The theorem regarding large models](https://breno.bearblog.dev/the-theorem-regarding-large-models/) _2026-08-06 · breno · Breno_ So, interesting that studying the curso Self-Improving AI Agents, the discussion was about a theorem that states that models can produce something with more opportunity to try. Great to learn. Really great learning. ## [Your toddler isn't throwing things to wind you up🫨](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/your-toddler-isnt-throwing-things) _2026-08-06 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ What's actually happening when everything ends up on the floor, and why "stop throwing" never works ## [The Shape That Won't Undress — Predicting Nets Across Three Ages](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/the-shape-that-wont-undress-predicting) _2026-08-06 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ The wrapping game from Tuesday, built across three ages — from "which shape rolls?" to an 11-year-old proving why the sphere can't wrap flat. ## [Organizations Fail When the Environment is Not Designed](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/organizations-fail-when-the-environment) _2026-08-05 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ I have spent years inside schools and mission-driven organizations. ## [🚫Why I don't rotate toys🚫](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-rotate-toys) _2026-08-04 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ The most repeated piece of playroom advice there is, why it quietly works against open-ended play, and the system I use instead ## [You Can Dress a Cube in Paper. Try It With a Ball and Something Goes Wrong.](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/you-can-dress-a-cube-in-paper-try) _2026-08-03 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ A paper-wrapping shape activity for kids that teaches 2D and 3D — and why a ball won't wrap flat, the same reason every world map is wrong. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vO5xalbcA8kP) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [From Point to Line — The Colour Balls Learn to Draw](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/from-point-to-line-the-colour-balls-4e9) _2026-08-01 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ Tie a string between the coloured balls and a sorting game becomes geometry — Fröbel's path from solid to point, built across three ages. For members. ## [What does your playroom score out of 50?](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/the-playroom-audit) _2026-07-31 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ A free scorecard: 25 questions, 50 points, 15 minutes, and you'll know exactly what your play space needs, no new toys required ## [Example Leader's Calendar](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/example-leaders-calendar) _2026-07-29 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ re: The Head of School's Calendar as Infrastructure ## [The Head of School's Calendar as Infrastructure](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/the-head-of-schools-calendar-as-infrastructure) _2026-07-29 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A head of school I have been coaching for two years sent me her calendar this June, in advance of a call we had scheduled to look at what her year had actually been. ## [The £100 starter playroom](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/the-100-starter-playroom) _2026-07-29 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ Seven things, one charity shop trip, and 6p change. What I'd buy first if I were starting our playroom again from zero ## [The Playbook We Never Wrote](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/the-playbook-we-never-wrote) _2026-07-28 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ In this episode, I talk about the employee every school eventually has — the one who yells, who makes people uncomfortable, who makes the whole building brace before a meeting. ## [Fröbel Put Colour on His Very First Toy. He Wanted Your Child to Ignore It.](https://spielgabenlearningbyhand.substack.com/p/frobel-put-colour-on-his-very-first) _2026-07-28 · Jim Kim · Spielgaben — Learning by Hand_ Fröbel put colour on his first toy, then said to ignore it. Montessori did the opposite. A colour-mixing train to make this week — and the idea beneath it. ## [The complete schema guide](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/the-complete-schema-guide) _2026-07-27 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ All 9 schemas - what each one actually looks like in your house, why the brain demands it, and the toy that feeds it 👏 ## [Observation as Infrastructure](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/observation-as-infrastructure) _2026-07-22 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A guide I have worked with for years told me at the end of last school year that she had not been observed by her head of school in any meaningful way since the head's first month at the school four years ago. ## [Can a Montessori Home Environment Be Colorful?](https://theparentingguide.substack.com/p/can-a-montessori-home-environment) _2026-07-20 · Guidepost · The Parenting Guide_ Montessori at home doesn't restrict color; it reminds us not to restrict natural beauty. ## [The Play Clinic is open. Bring me your play problems🌈](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/the-play-clinic-is-open-bring-me) _2026-07-18 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ Monthly Q&A thread! ## [The toys aren't making her calmer](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/the-toys-arent-making-her-calmer) _2026-07-16 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ ... the control is. ## [Hiring as Infrastructure](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/hiring-as-infrastructure) _2026-07-15 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A board chair I work with called me last August about a hire that had just gone visibly wrong. ## [First, decide what the toys are for☝️](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/first-decide-what-the-toys-are-for) _2026-07-09 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ Nobody asks parents the only question that matters in a toy shop. So let's ask it properly: what's your goal? And once you've named it, here's what to actually consider. ## [Family Communication as Infrastructure](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/family-communication-as-infrastructure) _2026-07-08 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A head of school I work with sat across from a father in early May to deliver news about his son. ## [How to teach your toddler to play by themselves](https://victoriabshaw.substack.com/p/play-with-me) _2026-07-07 · Victoria Shaw 🌈🧸 · Become Play Fluent_ How to grow a child who can play on their own, for the parent whose toddler can't be left for 30 seconds ## [Money as infrastructure: building Montessori finance around how Montessori schools actually fund themselves](https://montessorimakers.substack.com/p/money-as-infrastructure-building) _2026-07-01 · Hannah Richardson · Montessori Makers Group Substack_ A financial aid committee at a school I work with met one evening in February to decide on the year’s tuition assistance awards. ## [The Critical Flaw in AI Learning for Young Children](https://theparentingguide.substack.com/p/the-critical-flaw-in-ai-learning) _2026-06-01 · Karolina · The Parenting Guide_ The science behind why the first six years demand human presence, real materials, and an educator who actually knows your child ## [What is the Montessori Pink Tower?](https://theparentingguide.substack.com/p/what-is-the-montessori-pink-tower) _2026-05-19 · Karolina · The Parenting Guide_ 6 Brilliant Reasons The Montessori Pink Tower Is One of the Most Brilliant Learning Materials Ever Made ## [Teacher Appreciation Week 2026](https://theparentingguide.substack.com/p/teacher-appreciation-week-2026) _2026-05-13 · Guidepost · The Parenting Guide_ How Our School Communities Celebrated the Guides Who Make It All Possible