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Project Peace Table

A nonpartisan nonprofit board pushing the boundaries of Montessori education toward an international liberal arts 13-year school — currently seated as a piloting committee.

Project Peace Table began with the Montessori peace table: a quiet, designated space where children calm big emotions, reflect, and talk a disagreement through instead of being sent away from it. The board extends that practice into a full 13-year international liberal arts model — cradle through graduation — where conflict resolution, grace and courtesy, and self-regulation are taught with the same seriousness as reading and mathematics.

The piloting committee is nonpartisan by charter. It seats educators, parents, clinicians, and neighbors from both sides of the Detroit River, tests curriculum and governance in real classrooms, and publishes what fails alongside what works.

  • Peace practiceA designated table, a talking object, and a protocol children can run themselves.
  • 13-year arcOne continuous liberal arts sequence from early childhood through graduation.
  • International frameComparative Montessori, Detroit, and Windsor-Essex practice under one review.
  • Nonpartisan governanceNo candidate, party, or ballot outcome is advanced by the committee's work.

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