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Involving mothers in education, Harrison and Putnam founded the Chicago Kindergarten Club in 1883, influenced by the book Mothers at Play by Friedrich Fröbel. [5] In 1886, Harrison founded a training school for kindergarten teachers in Chicago. Intrigued by the ideas used by a German woman working at her school, Harrison decided to find out more.
Founder of the first kindergarten in the United States Margarethe Meyer-Schurz (born Margarethe Meyer; also called Margaretha Meyer-Schurz or just Margarethe Schurz; 27 August 1833 – 15 March 1876) was a German-American woman who opened the first German-language kindergarten in the United States at Watertown, Wisconsin .
Lucy Wheelock (February 1, 1857 – October 1, 1946) was an American early childhood education pioneer within the American kindergarten movement. [1] She began her career by teaching the kindergarten program at Chauncy-Hall School (1879–89).
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (May 16, 1804 – January 3, 1894) was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
In 1898, she founded, and became a teacher at the first free kindergarten in Alabama. [3] Lindsay was also an author and poet. She published over 18 children books. The first was Mrs. Speckelty Hen. [2] She was the third president of the Alabama Writers Conclave, and involved in several other clubs. Lindsay died on May 30, 1941. [2]
Pollock did open the first kindergarten in West Newton, Massachusetts, in 1863 or 1864, [2] [4] other schools were modeled after her later National Kindergarten and Normal School in Washington, D.C., and she wrote and translated articles, song books, and education manuals about kindergartens which were important to the advancement of the ...
International Kindergarten Union (I.K.U.) (successor, Childhood Education International) was an American organization established at Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1892, in the interests of concerted action among the supporters of the kindergarten cause. [1] in 1924, the organization was reorganized as Childhood Education International.
Susan Elizabeth Blow (June 7, 1843 – March 27, 1916) was an American educator who opened the first successful public kindergarten in the United States. She was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten." Sketch of Susan E. Blow by Marguerite Martyn, 1909