Webcast Tim Seldin Reflecting on his life in Montessori
Tim Seldin has a long history in the Montessori movement. Today he discussed some of his memories of his early years as a student at the Barrie School and how he got involved with Montessori.
Webcast: How to Use Your Website to Increase Enrollment and Reduce Administrative Workload
Jono Landon of Hubbli presented this webinar focusing on the best way to organize information on a website to increase school tours and open house attendance. We also discussed how a website can be used to improve parent engagement and reduce administrative workload.
Webcast: Virgin Islands Montessori School; Preparing and Recovering from a Natural Disaster
Join Michael Bornn, Head of School, native Virgin Islander with over 25 years in operational leadership, financial management and construction oversight. Hear his story of preparation and recovery from two major hurricanes less than one year ago. There are lessons for all of us in preparing for the inevitable as well as the unexpected!
Webcast: How to Emancipate Yourself From the Drudgery of School Management Busy-Work
In this webinar, Jono Landon from Hubbli, focused on strategic ways of using school management technology to substantially reduce office paperwork and free up hours from the drudgery of the daily, remedial, school office busy-work. He also talked about a manageable, and incremental approach for transitioning a school from old-school management processes to the most current best-practices that are being employed by efficiently run organizations around the world. This information will be based on data, and we will also show case-studies from real-life success stories.
Webcast: The Montessori Difference
Michael Dorer discusses the characteristics that define Montessori programs.
How to Simplify and Improve Parent Engagement
Join Jono Landon as he shares his passion for simplifying parent engagement. Here’s what we’ll cover in this webcast:
1. How to use each communication tool the right way so that parents read your messages and are informed.
2. How to centralize all of the communication tools into one simple system so that you don’t have to learn and manage contacts and tasks in multiple locations.
3. How to Reduce the time and money that goes into using paper in the office.
This webcast is for YOU if you want to create an efficient communication system that reduces your workload, saves time, and gives parents the communication experience which they are expecting from you.
Webcast: Join The IMC DERS & MEFS Consortium
The International Montessori Council (IMC) is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to our member schools. We are developing a consortium of schools in partnership with the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS). The consortium is open to ALL IMC member schools, including private, independent, public, and charter. We will be accepting 50 schools to participate, so it is imperative to get your questions answered and register your school! IMC Member Schools who agree to participate in this research-based project will benefit in a variety of ways. First and foremost, this project will fuel your school’s efforts in continuous improvement. These assessment tools will provide information to schools and teachers that can be used to coach and mentor faculty, inform practice, and utilize support and resources to improve student outcomes. Many of you have heard of the Developmental Environmental Rating Scale (DERS) and Minnesota Executive Function Scale (MEFS). This week’s webcast will provide the details and reasons why your school should participate in this very important research project!
Webcast: Co-teaching: You Can Make it Work!
Discover Co–Teaching! Is it a possibility in your school or classroom? Michael Dorer discusses what co–teaching is and what it is not. Generally applied in elementary classrooms and above, co–teaching can bring a new energy and approach to your program. Its emphasis on collaboration and equality can be models of a completely cooperative and collaborative classroom and whole school community. Can co–teaching work in your school? Listen to this prerecorded webcast and find out!
Webcast: Record-Keeping Made Easy
Put the clipboards away and record your daily classroom activity from ANY web-enabled device! MC’s incredibly easy-to-use record–keeping interface works beautifully on an up-to-date iPad, iPhone, Android tablet/phone, Mac, or PC. Plan your lessons in advance or record spontaneous lessons in real-time. You can take attendance, share photos, record observations, keep track of daily routines, concerns, or needs, and communicate just what you want to share with parents! This is the perfect solution for any Montessori Educator seeking a record–keeping solution that just works! All record keeping data is automatically saved and tagged to designated student profiles. Real-time reports on classroom progress can be generated instantly. Use our Montessori Scope and Sequence or add your own. Montessori Educators from all over the globe agree… this is the Online Montessori RecordKeeping system you have been searching for.
Webcast: Do You Wish You Could Have a Parenting Instructor at Your School?
This week Lorna McGrath, Coordinator of the Montessori Family Alliance, talked with us about the importance of ongoing parenting education courses (separate and in addition to any Montessori workshops you run for parents). “If you help parents learn how to create a peaceful home, they will be eternally grateful to you and your school.”
Are you wishing that you not only had a parenting instructor at your school but that the instructor actually understood Montessori? Do your parents come to you for parenting advice but can’t get away during the day or in the evenings to join a live group? If so, the Parenting Puzzle – The Basics might be just the ticket. Join us to find out how it works and how you can get started with the course you’ve been hoping for. In this webcast, there will also be a sneak preview of the next course in the Parenting Puzzle series – Right from the Start for prenatal through three years old. To learn more about the course itself as an individual family would see it, go to https://stage.montessori.org/mli-the-parenting-puzzle/ For an annual license to offer the Parenting Puzzle at your school, go to https://stage.montessori.org/product/the-parenting-puzzle-annual-license-for-school-use/
Creating a Holistic Approach to Staff Evaluation & Development (PART 2)
Join our panel as we continue this discussion. This week we’ll focus on the critical elements of evaluation as a supportive growth cycle. We’ll explore what it means to “manage by wandering around” and exactly what it is we’re looking for. Are you implementing a meaningful system of staff support, development, and evaluation? We will explore all of these ideas using Montessori-aligned principles to ensure our staff and faculty get the important feedback they deserve!
Creating a Holistic Approach to Staff Evaluation & Development part 1
Join our panel as we discuss this essential element of effective leadership. How do we create a meaningful system of staff support, development, and evaluation? We will explore using Montessori aligned principles to ensure our staff and faculty get the important feedback they deserve!
Webcast IMC Leadership Networks
IMC Executive Director, Kathy Leitch, discusses the IMC’s new Leadership Network. This is an additional way that leaders of member schools can engage in ongoing support and professional development. We know that Heads can feel isolated with many competing priorities and decisions. Hear about what we have in mind and let us know your needs and thoughts about a professional cohort group.
Webcast Re enrollment, Retention, and the Role of our Faculty
On January 24, 2018, Tanya Ryskind led our discussion regarding our teachers’ role as families make critical decisions during the re-enrollment season. We know that families choose schools for a variety of reasons, let’s look at why they stay and why they leave. We considered some proactive strategies that our faculty members can use to increase our retention rate. We cannot afford to lose a Montessori student!
Webcast; Setting Intentions for the New Year
Dr. Montessori paved the way for eternal optimism and reminds us why we engage in the purposeful work of serving children, families, teachers, schools, and organizations.
This week, Tim Seldin, Kathy Leitch and Jonathan Wolf will facilitate a discussion on setting intentions for the new year. As we look forward to 2018 in the Montessori world-wide community we are juggling priorities and setting intentions. Join us as we discuss our goals, resolutions, and intentions for an engaging 2018 with the Montessori Foundation and the International Montessori Council (IMC).
We’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions for our future vision of the Montessori community around the world.
Webcast: Caring for the Head of School…A Fresh Start for the New Year!
On December 20, 2017, Kathy Leitch led a conversation on the topic of “Caring for the Head of School…Fresh Start for the New Year!”
Well, we were definitely in full holiday swing! Our question is, as always, how are we keeping yourself centered and sane? We engaged in a discussion about caring for ourselves in the midst of meeting so many needs. Kathy will present several strategies that will provide the opportunity for reflection and renewal while being available and open to the season’s demands. Come prepared to share what works for you and where you find solace. We’ll prepare our personal environments for a fresh start in the New Year!
Webcast: Parent Ambassador Programs that Build Stronger School Communities
On December 13th, 2017, Tim Seldin led a conversation on the topic of one aspect of creating deeper parent engagement through a Parent Ambassador program.
A Parent Ambassador is any parent who gives his or her time and talent to support the efforts of the school in welcoming new parents, providing a current parent‘s perspective on what it is like to have a child in the school, and to support the classrooms and enhance communication and encourage participation throughout the school year.
Parent Ambassador programs can offer committed parents a number of different levels to be active in ways that seem right for them in any given year:
1. Parent Ambassadors who are willing to accept phone calls, emails, or other communication from potential families. This group of parents provides a parent-to-parent line of introduction to your school community for prospective parents. The goal is not to “sell” anyone on the school, but to help them determine if ours might be the right fit for their family by sharing their own experience as current or past parents.
2. Room Parents who volunteer their time to support a particular classroom through communicating ongoing information, encouragingparent engagement with the school through the class-level or broader project level, to remind parents of upcoming events, and to help coordinate activities that support the class and children working in partnership with the teachers.
3. Parent Ambassadors to New Families who volunteer to help new parents become part of the school community through their first year at the school. This includes the normal roles of serving as one more special point of contact, inviting new parents to contact them if they are not sure about something, reminding them of upcoming events, welcoming them as standing members of the community into the fold, and helping them to see how and why they can and should become involved.
Do you run a Parent Ambassador Program? We have for years at the Montessori Foundation’s La School, but never really fleshed the process out into an easily followed ParentAmbassador handbook. The idea is to prepare a sample written handbook that gives Parent Ambassadors relevant information, answers frequently asked questions, and includes any other resources that may be helpful, such as a sample calendar, lists of suggested things to do, and sample emails or simple scripts for phone calls.
If you have something to share, please send it totimseldin@montessori.org and we will make it available for the attendees as part of our shared resources.
How to Address Challenging Behaviors Part 2
A Case Study of Task Avoidance, Verbal Aggression, and Physical Aggression
On November 8, 2017 our guest was Behavior Analyst, Brynn Rangel, MBA, BCBA. She will speak about Addressing Challenging Behaviors Part 2: A Case Study of Task Avoidance, Verbal Aggression, and Physical Aggression
What happens when a child struggles to normalize? What do we do when challenging behaviors disrupt the learning environment?
In this week’s webinar, we will examine a case study of a student exhibiting avoidant and aggressive behaviors. The discussion will focus on positive behavior support strategies that best support the student through environmental modifications, teaching new skills and supporting appropriate behavior. We will discuss in detail what to include in a behavior intervention plan so that teachers, administrators and support staff members are able to implement with consistency and fidelity.
Participants were invited to share their thoughts on applying these strategies to their own environments.
In this webinar, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Brynn Rangel guided a discussion about assisting students struggling to adapt to the Montessori environment by using positive behavior support strategies. The discussion will explain the process of identifying functions of behavior, utilizing data collection systems, linking social and emotional learning goals to the Dimensions of Observable Growth, and implementing positive feedback systems within the classroom.
The webinar aimed to reconcile contradicting principles of Montessori pedagogy and data-driven behavioral analysis while shedding some light on the sympatric nature of the two practices. Participants are invited to share their thoughts on applying these strategies to their own environments and have an open dialogue about the science behind the practice.
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