Education Department Administrative, 1928 - 2017, bulk: 1960 - 2010

This collection concerns the Education Department, the earliest document being the announcement of a kindergarten certificate program being set up in 1928. Information directly related to the Education Department includes department meeting minutes, planning, self-studies, correspondence, handbooks, student-teaching paperwork, licensure programs, accreditation, course proposals, syllabi and course information, and other administrative files, as well as other tangentially related topics such as information from an elementary school teacher’s service in the Peace Corps. The meeting minutes are the best represented topic out of those listed above, with about two boxes worth. A limited number of folders contain information specifically about the master’s program. Other material is connected to the running of the Montessori School and Early Childhood Center, at one time under the Education Department, being both about the training of early childhood professionals by the Education Department and about the school itself. Included are files on space, correspondence with parents, discussion around the possible closing of the center, the Early Childhood Advisory Council, information on training early childhood teachers, accreditation of licensure programs, finances, summer session materials, advertising, and two boxes of lesson plans and activities for small children. Most of this material comes from when the childcare center was connected to the Education Department, however loosely, but some of it dates from after their split as well. The bulk of the collection is made up of reports concerning the planning, creation, and accreditation of various Montessori schools around the country.