We are pleased to report that AMI/USA officially released their Position Statement on Inclusion and Educational Equity on February 16, 2025, at the national conference in Oklahoma City! We are so proud of Catherine Massie of MMPI, member of the HRSJ Advisory Council and chair of the Position Statement on Educational Equity Ad-Hoc Committee. Massie who, along with fellow committee members (including our own Erin Lopez-Brooks) and Ayize Sabater, Ed. D., AMI/USA Executive Director, Dr. KaLinda Bass-Barlow, Chair, AMI/USA Board of Directors, Sheri Bishop, M.Ed., AMI/USA Human Rights and Social Justice Advisor, and Jacqui Miller, Chair, AMI/USA HRSJ Board Committee worked for 3 years to craft the final statement which you can read HERE.

“The school constitutes an immense field for research; it is a “pedagogical clinic,” which, in view of its importance, can be compared to no other gathering of subjects for study. Thanks to the system of compulsory education, it gathers to itself every living human being of both sexes and of every social caste, normal and abnormal; and it retains them there, throughout a most important period of growth. This is the field, therefore, in which the culture of the human race can really and practically be undertaken; and a joint labour of physician and teacher will sow the seed of a future human hygiene, adapted to achieve perfection in man, both as a species and as a social unit.”

[Dr. Maria Montessori, Pedagogical Anthropology, July 1913]