Extend the experience beyond the classroom with interactive programs for faculty, families and the wider school community.
Go deeper with a multi-day cultural residency, giving students more time to explore traditions, instruments, stories and global connections across the curriculum.
Transform an entire school day into a journey around the world, with experiences tailored to different ages, grade levels and learning goals.
Bring the world directly to your students through an immersive exploration of cultures, rare instruments, artifacts, stories and traditions from around the globe.
FULL-DAY EXPERIENCES
SCHOOL VISITS
Real instruments, cultural artifacts and firsthand stories turn your Montessori school into an in-school journey around the world. Students observe, ask questions, make connections and take part. Led by a Montessori-trained educator, experiences connect concrete discovery with geography, history, language, art and culture. Choose a format for your ages, schedule and current studies.
BRING THE WORLD TO YOUR SCHOOL
STUDENT INQUIRY
Begin with objects students can see, hear and examine. Follow their questions into the people, places and traditions behind each object, making connections across your current studies.
Locate objects on a map, compare materials and sounds, and follow stories into history, language and art. Faculty workshops offer practical ways to continue cultural exploration in the classroom.
Hands-on cultural exploration through real instruments, artifacts, stories and active participation. Led by a Montessori-trained educator, each experience encourages curiosity, independence and meaningful connections across the curriculum.
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS
Concrete encounters. Connected learning.
Real objects invite close observation and purposeful questions. Peace Culture Music brings instruments, cultural artifacts and firsthand stories into your Montessori community, connecting what children can see and hear with the people, places and traditions behind it.
Led by Montessori-trained educator Daniel Scruggs, each visit is planned around your learners’ ages and current studies. Guided exploration and participation provide starting points for further work in geography, language, history, art and music.
From observation to wider understanding
Early childhood: noticing and naming
Children encounter differences in sound, texture, shape and movement. Simple vocabulary, careful listening and guided participation support a concrete introduction to instruments and the people who make and use them.
Elementary: connecting people, places and human creativity
An instrument opens questions about materials, environments, craftsmanship and cultural expression. Students locate places, compare examples and consider how people meet needs and communicate ideas through what they create. These encounters offer entry points into interconnected cultural studies.
Adolescents: examining context and responsibility
Older students can investigate cultural exchange, migration, identity and the responsibilities of collecting and interpretation. Questions encourage them to consider how knowledge is shared and how communities represent their own traditions.
An experience that can lead to further work
Teachers can extend a visit through map work, instrument sketches, material comparisons, vocabulary study or student-led research. A child’s question about one object may become an investigation into a place, a craft tradition or a relationship among cultures.
Faculty workshops offer opportunities to practice ways of guiding these connections and selecting appropriate instruments for the classroom.
Stories, traditions, instruments and artifacts open doors to geography, history and cultures from around the world — helping students make connections far beyond the classroom.
Students encounter an extraordinary traveling collection of 200+ instruments and cultural artifacts from around the world — discovering the people, places, histories and traditions behind them.
“His work aligns beautifully with Montessori values, offering children a meaningful, hands-on way to experience the richness and diversity of our global community.”
— ERIN PALMER DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS, KEYSTONE MONTESSORI SCHOOL
"Thank you so much for coming to our Montessori School! I loved the steel drum and the didgeridoo. I expected the steel drum to sound like wood hitting metal, but I loved how it actually sounded! It was so cool how you made the animal sound with the didgeridoo! Sadly, I can't come back next year because I'll be in 7th grade. I hope we meet again somewhere else though."
— Note from Lacee, an attendee of a PCM educational experience
"You are the nicest guy. Some day I want to be like you. [You] really inspired me. when I grow up I want to travel the world. Where where you born? Where are you going next? Were you in Africa yesterday? You are so passionate about yourself. I am glad that a you [chose] to come and show these beautiful instruments. You really taught us a lesson. It will always be an inspiration to me."
— Note from Julia, an attendee of a PCM educational experience
Drawings from Daanish, an attendee of a PCM educational experience