Nee Intergenerational Montessori for Belonging and Learner-Centered Education - Launching NIMBLE: Youth
with Teng-Chien Yu, M.Ed.
Nee Intergenerational Montessori for Belonging and Learner-Centered Education - Launching NIMBLE: Youth
This research captures multi-generational data from multiple vantage points and methodological sources on the Nee Intergenerational Montessori for Belonging and Learner-Centered Education (NIMBLE) community-engaged efforts at the Center for Montessori Studies, University of Hartford. NIMBLE: Youth is a community-rooted collaboration in the Northeast neighborhood of Hartford to support adolescent counselor development in essential Montessori aid-to-life elements as they contribute to the neighborhood summer program serving children 5 to 12 years old.
Teng-Chien Yu, M.Ed.
Teng-Chien Yu, M.Ed. - AMI Primary Trainer, contractor for various AMI training centers. Teng-Chien started his professional career as a Community Social Worker for an orphanage in Taiwan. Upon discovering Montessori education placing the child in the center of the work, he embarked on his Montessori journey without hesitation. The community social work background influences his social ecological system thinking while working with children and family.