Cultivating Virtue Through Storytelling: The Montessori Way

In this session, we will consider age-old principles of character education with more contemporary research on social-emotional development, and apply these together through a literature-based, culturally-responsive, school-developed curriculum for a high-need public Montessori school in Memphis.

Bob Nardo

Bob Nardo is founding executive director of Libertas School of Memphis, the first Montessori neighborhood turnaround and charter school in Tennessee, and Arete Memphis Public Montessori Residency, one of nation’s first dual-licensure urban teacher residencies. Bob earned a BA from American University, MA from the University of Chicago, and a postgraduate diploma in character education from the University of Birmingham (UK). Bob, his wife Sara (a homeschool educator), and their six children live on a small homestead near Memphis.