About the Author

Daniel Bachhuber has been teaching at J.J. Hill Montessori since 1991. For the last seventeen years, he’s been with the upper elementary, grades four through six. J.J. Hill is a magnet school within the St. Paul Public Schools.

• Trained in Bergamo, Italy 1984-1985. A.M.I. certified for ages 6-12
• Published poet. More than forty individual poems in periodicals such as The Iowa Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and The Southern Poetry Review.
• New Rivers Press published Mozart’s Carriage, his book of poems, in 2003.
• Seventeen published essays and reviews in NAMTA Quarterly, Public School Montessorian, Hungry Mind Review, and others.
• Regular contributor to The Public School Montessorian
• Article, “Cosmic Education and Literature-based Language Teaching” appeared in NAMTA Journal Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 1995 provides background reading for the material sold on this site.
  

Acknowledgements:

The Timeline material was made in collaboration with Virginia McBride and Tara Kellenberger.

• Virginia is a gifted artist, whose drawings make the card material and the timeline come to life. Virginia researched each literary form, and considered multiple possibilities before choosing the image she would draw.
• Tara has a talent for design and for technology. From the beaded pattern around the card material to the “teacher pages” that match drawings with definitions, Tara’s aesthetic complements the whole.
• Finally, thanks to John Tuttle, a web designer and J.J. Hill parent, who not only put together this website, but patiently showed me how to use it.