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Samantha Gleisten

Samantha Gleisten

Award-winning Montessori educator and co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer of AI Educators/HeyBodhi, teaching at Rogers Park Montessori School in Chicago.

Sep 7, 2026

6:35
So can you talk a little bit about that and your thoughts behind that?
6:38
Yeah, I mean, the thing that I am thinking about a lot lately, so I've done a deep dive into the UNESCO AI framework, which are some fantastic suggestions and things for educators to be thinking about in relation to AI.
6:51
And I think we can use that and as Montessorians.
6:57
What I find is so many schools are going from tools inward.
7:01
They're starting with tools and then going to thinking about deeper inquiry and then thinking about how to be a good citizen, right? We as Montessorians, because of cosmic education, because of that approach, we start with how are we supporting the holistic citizenship of the child, right? So many of our practices actually support being a good citizen in the age of AI or being someone who's able to interact with others in the age of AI.
7:32
And so I really think that Montessori at this moment can lead the way because of that framework that we have.
7:39
We have this schema of knowledge that kids can hang their understanding on that supports being a good person and using this technology to extend our capability to have relational intelligence to do really great things in the world.
10:31
Was there a specific problem that you were trying to solve that kind of led you towards Hey Bodhi?

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