Our mission
Empowering families to bring Montessori into everyday life.
Kerry Howard created two separate products from more than 40 years of Montessori teaching experience. The Montessori Life Skills App is a complete, standalone primary curriculum for ages 2–6. The Montessori Life Skills Story Books® are standalone picture books that teach individual life skills through calm, relatable stories. Neither product requires the other.
A Living Montessori Legacy
From Maria Montessori to a new generation
For Kerry Howard, Montessori has never been simply an educational philosophy. It is a living tradition—learned from those who came before her, practiced with children, and carried forward through more than 40 years of Montessori education.
Dr. Maria Montessori
1870–1952Physician, educator and founder of the Montessori method
Maria Antonietta Paolini
Pupil, collaborator and assistant to Maria Montessori
Alba Fedele
Student of Paolini and pioneering Montessori educator in Naples
Kerry Howard
AMI-trained Montessori educator; collaborator and assistant to Alba Fedele in Naples
More Than a Method
This lineage represents more than names on a timeline. Montessori was passed from one educator to another through training, observation, precise presentations, prepared environments and, above all, years spent observing and understanding children. Kerry carried those lessons into her own classrooms and ultimately into decades of work with children and families.
Over 40 years, she has watched children develop independence through meaningful work, concentration through purposeful activity, confidence through mastery, and compassion through learning to care for themselves, others and their environment. Those experiences became the foundation for Montessori Life Skills Company LLC.
Honoring the Past. Carrying It Forward.
Kerry believes preserving Montessori does not mean allowing it to stand still. It means understanding its foundations deeply enough to carry them forward with integrity.
The world in which today's children are growing is very different from the world Maria Montessori knew. Yet the fundamental qualities Montessori recognized in children—the desire to explore, to work, to become independent and to participate meaningfully in their world—remain remarkably unchanged.
Montessori Life Skills Company LLC was created from that understanding: to preserve the depth and integrity of Montessori education while finding new, meaningful ways for its principles and practices to reach today's children, parents, caregivers and educators.
Rooted in Montessori. Shaped by 40 years of experience. Created for the children of today—and tomorrow.
About the author
Kerry Howard is an AMI-trained Montessori educator, author, and founder of MontessoriCares.org. With more than 40 years of experience working with children and families across South Africa, Italy, and the United States, she has dedicated her career to helping children develop independence, confidence, and a love of learning through authentic Montessori education.
Kerry helped establish Montessori schools in underserved communities in South Africa and later taught for five years and served as Assistant Director for two years at the historic Anglo Italian Montessori School in Naples, Italy, where she also worked as Assistant to Alba Fedele, a direct student of Maria Antonietta Paolini and a leading Montessori educator in Naples. After moving to the United States, she continued supporting children and families through Montessori home education programs and individualized learning environments.
In 2015, Kerry founded MontessoriCares.org, a nonprofit initiative that provided more than 4,000 sets of Montessori learning materials to refugee children living in camps in Greece and Italy.
Drawing on decades of classroom experience, Kerry created the Montessori Life Skills App, a complete Montessori primary curriculum for ages 2–6, and the Montessori Life Skills Story Books®, a series of books that combine authentic Montessori principles with engaging stories. The App and the books are separate products, each complete in its own way. Neither accompanies or requires the other. Families can choose the complete curriculum in the App or choose individual life-skill stories from the Story Books according to their needs.
The Montessori Life Skills App guides families through the same scope and sequence Kerry has used in classrooms for over 40 years, turning everyday home routines into meaningful Montessori lessons. The Story Books introduce the same principles through calm, relatable stories that children ask for again and again.
Through her books, educational resources, and advocacy, Kerry continues her mission of helping children become capable, confident, and compassionate individuals.
Calm stories. Real skills. Montessori-aligned learning.
For publishers & educators
The Montessori Life Skills Story Books® series is available for foreign rights, co-edition, regional licensing, and bulk classroom sales. With 14 titles, two award-winning books, and an AMI-trained author with 40 years of experience, the series is ready for partners who want to bring authentic Montessori literature to families and schools worldwide.