by Elyse Postlewaite | Administrative Team, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
How can I support my students to become more self-directed? This two-part series on the topic of self-directed learning skills will include an overview of key research takeaways and a practical discussion of how to implement and support self-directed learning in the classroom. Part 1 will define self-directed learning and discuss what we already know about how self-directed learning skills develop across childhood and adolescence. Practical discussions around implementation in a Montessori setting will be interspersed throughout the session. Part 2 will review findings from a dissertation study that includes students’ own voices on the development of self-directed learning skills in a Montessori school during a global pandemic. Part 2 will also include practical discussions on how findings from the study can inform strategies to support students’ development of self-directed learning skills in a Montessori setting.
by Elyse Postlewaite | Administrative Team, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
How can I support my students to become more self-directed? This two-part series on the topic of self-directed learning skills will include an overview of key research takeaways and a practical discussion of how to implement and support self-directed learning in the classroom. Part 1 will define self-directed learning and discuss what we already know about how self-directed learning skills develop across childhood and adolescence. Practical discussions around implementation in a Montessori setting will be interspersed throughout the session. Part 2 will review findings from a dissertation study that includes students’ own voices on the development of self-directed learning skills in a Montessori school during a global pandemic. Part 2 will also include practical discussions on how findings from the study can inform strategies to support students’ development of self-directed learning skills in a Montessori setting.
by Sara Suchman | Administrative Team, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Charter Schools, Montessori Education, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
The National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS) launched with a mandate to understand and respond to the needs of public Montessori schools. In this Leadership Forum, Sara Suchman, Executive Director of NCMPS, will share what the organization has learned, the state of public schools now, and priorities as we look around the corner. Bring your questions and thoughts about what Montessori looks like in public schools and what a robust ecosystem of public and independent schools might look like.
by Cassi Mackey | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
As educators, we know that our daily tasks, goals, and overall performance are shaped and evaluated in collaborative communities through peer and supervisory feedback. Feedback can be a powerful tool for growth, so why is it so hard to give feedback and even harder to hear it? People have different ways of making sense of their work and relationships and the feedback they receive. To matter, feedback has to acknowledge that a people on both the giving and the receiving ends will have very different lenses through which they make sense of the world and different capacities to hear and grow. People have different ways of making sense of their work and relationships and the feedback they receive. To matter, feedback has to acknowledge that people on both the giving and the receiving ends will have very different lenses through which they are making sense of the world and different capacities to hear and grow.
by Renee DuChainey Farkes | Administrative Team, Child's Work, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Join us to talk about The Child Study Model which is grounded in observation and centered on supporting each child’s needs through observing the child engaging with the learning environment. We’ll talk about how schools can utilize this model to help each child reach their potential. Join us and see how it supports Maria Montessori’s vision of working with the child and her premise of the inherent goodness of each child and the necessary need to look at the whole child development.
See how it also provides an opportunity to further build faculty collaboration and a professional learning community at your school.
by Christine Lowry | Administrative Team, Children with Exceptionalities, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, Research, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Building on our conversation about Myths of Inclusion, this week we will explore the barriers to full inclusion in Montessori classrooms and how we as a community can begin to “break barriers” as we serve an increasingly diverse group of learners at every level.
Join us in reflection as we explore the myths of inclusion with Montessori special educator and inclusion facilitator Christine Lowry.
by Christine Lowry | Administrative Team, Children with Exceptionalities, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, Research, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
This 2 part leadership forum will give us the opportunity to discuss common myths and beliefs about inclusive education. Is it right for Montessori? What is inclusion really all about? What are the benefits and the negatives?
Join us in reflection as we explore the myths of inclusion with Montessori special educator and inclusion facilitator Christine Lowry.
by Jody Malterre | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Join Parent Teacher Coach and Positive Discipline Trainer, Jody Malterre, for a lively discussion about parent education. We’ll explore all the ways we use our touchpoints with parents to educate them on our approach and ways they can support at home. Let’s think beyond Montessori Philosophy parent talks to discover how use initial phone inquiries, tours, parenting classes, parent/teacher/student conferences, and more to elevate parent’s understanding, buy in, and engagement.
by Andrew Kutt | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
What are the key ingredients in the recipe for belonging and thriving in our Montessori classrooms and schools? In this session, Andrew Kutt will share some of what he has learned during his 35 years as a Montessori school founder and head. Andrew will also touch upon some of the more impactful recent books and research about human belonging and flourishing. Andrew will likely share one of his original songs or poems along the way.
by Christine Lowry | Administrative Team, Children with Exceptionalities, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, Research, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Using the positive framing approach, shared by Charlie Biggs, we’ll explore how inclusive education is an equity approach rooted in social justice. Diversity, equity, and inclusion- we believe in the concepts. But what does diversity actually mean to us? As leaders of schools, teacher ed. programs, and classrooms, how do we understand what it means to respect and accept the full range of human diversity? What might we need to implement equity in our programs? What knowledge, what strategies, what skills would we need to gain? How do our schools, our classrooms, and our Montessori community work toward social justice?
by Charlie Biggs | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
This interactive webinar will explore three powerful tools – tuning in, positive framing, and leading with (positive) questions – that Montessori leaders can use to help create a culture of mutual respect, support, and learning among adults as well as children at their schools. We will briefly explore each of these tools and then devote the majority of the webinar to discussing concrete ways that participants can use them in their work.
by Charlie Biggs | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
This interactive webinar will explore three powerful tools – tuning in, positive framing, and leading with (positive) questions – that Montessori leaders can use to help create a culture of mutual respect, support, and learning among adults as well as children at their schools. We will briefly explore each of these tools and then devote the majority of the webinar to discussing concrete ways that participants can use them in their work.
by Andrew Kutt | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
What are the key ingredients in the recipe for belonging and thriving in our Montessori classrooms and schools? In this session, Andrew Kutt will share some of what he has learned during his 35 years as a Montessori school founder and head. Andrew will also touch upon some of the more impactful recent books and research about human belonging and flourishing. Andrew will likely share one of his original songs or poems along the way.
by Christine Lowry | Administrative Team, Communication, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Language, Language & Reading, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Join us as we explore and reflect on our assumptions of ableism and how these assumptions impact our beliefs, our behaviors, and our ways of being in our schools, our classrooms, and for our Montessori community. We invite you to contribute to what will be a lively discussion with your Montessori colleagues.
by Kitty Bravo | Administrative Team, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, IMC Teacher Education, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
When to send teachers for training, considerations for sponsorship, supporting successful partnerships with supervising Teachers, And Supporting the Self-Directed Intern?
by Cindy Acker | Administrative Team, Black History, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, Social Justice, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
We have discovered how much we have not known and still do not know about Black individuals and the history that has shaped our world.
by Hillary Drinkell | Administrative Team, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, Research, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Using a biopsychosocial-spiritual model aligning to the preparation of the Montessori adult so that we can step into our roles as Montessori guides and administrators while maintaining our sanity and empowering ourselves.
by Kathy Leitch | Administrative Team, Educational Program Coordination, Montessori Administrators, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC
Learn the basic ideas behind complexity theory and help to reveal the relationship it has with Montessori pedagogy. Your experiences and insights will be needed and appreciated! This could become a dissertation topic for research.
