A Celebration of 30 years of Adolescent Work & Revisiting the United Nations Rights of the Child with the Needs and Characteristics of Adolescents in Mind

In October of 1996, the First Adolescent Colloquium met in Cleveland, Ohio to discuss the development of Montessori education for the Third Plane with fidelity to Montessori principles and under the guidance of the writings of Dr. Maria Montesori.  The meeting was attended by Montessori luminaries, including Renilde Montessori, Margaret Stephenson, Camillo Grazzini, and Kay Baker. It included AMI trainers and Adolescent Program pioneers such as David Kahn, Larry and Pat Schafer, Pat Ludick, Linda Davis, Jenny Hoglund, John McNamara, and others. The gathering initiated a focused and intentional set of experiments in theory and practice in the work with adolescents under the wing of AMI. Today 30 years later, we have an official AMI 12-18 Diploma Course, a redesigned Orientation Course, and an expansion and evolution of Montessori Adolescent Communities around the world who are continuing the work and the analysis of theory into practice.