Workshops
Join a year-long, small, facilitated community-of-practice designed to address changing conditions and current needs.
Professional Learning
Classroom Practice
Visual Thinking Strategies and Language Development
August 3–21 • $225 • Registration open through August 7
Three-week course with three live sessions
An introduction to the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) protocol for student-driven conversations about art, which foster vocabulary, fluency and the critical thinking that drives both
Safe Learning Cultures
and Emotional Support for Children
September 1–October 15 • $195
Six-week course with three live sessions
In these times of stress and uncertainty, children may be facing emotional challenges. Educators need to be prepared. This course provides practical strategies and research-based interventions to help children feel safe and ready to learn in online, in-person, or blended formats.
Culturally Responsive Environments II
Decolonizing Instruction, Liberating Lessons
October 26–December 2 • $195
Six-week course with three live sessions
A course for teacher educators committed to taking the next steps towards anti-bias, anti-racist policies and procedures to deepen awareness and accountability.
The Montessori Surround
Courses to deepen your practice
September 2020–May 2021 • $1,350
A year-long arc of online professional learning
This series of courses in neurobiology and development, engaging diverse families, and literacy acquisition, offered in partnership with Whitworth University, deepens understanding of key concepts needed for successful implementation of Montessori in the public sector.
Assistants Training
School-based preparation for support
Open enrollment year-round • $195
12-hour online course with school-based support
This course introduces new Montessori primary and elementary assistants to the prepared environment and their role within it. Enrollment requires a school-based facilitator to support aspects of the course.
Assistants can take the course individually, or a whole school can subscribe at a group rate.
Montessori Coaching and Child Study
Coaches Training: Supporting Montessori Teachers
September 29–November 3 • $295
Six-week online course with six live sessions
This course prepares coaches to support effective, equitable Montessori practice, and to work with leadership teams to strengthen developmentally supportive practices throughout the program. This fall’s sessions will address coaching under distance learning conditions.
Coaches Workshop: A Community of Practice
September 2020–May 2021 • $850
Sixteen online sessions throughout the school year
This Workshop brings participants from previous Coaches Trainings together to refine and deepen their work, ask questions, share, reflect, problem-solve, and implement Coaching tools during this unusual year. Participants in this fall’s Training will be able to join a Workshop later this year.
Workshop I is available for Coaches new to the community of practice. Workshop II is for Coaches returning from a previous Workshop.
Child Study Training: Serving All the Children
September 22–November 10 • $245
Eight-week online course with five live sessions
Child Study is a Montessori-based approach to meeting the needs of all children, resolving difficulties early, and using a wide range of data to support student development. This training prepares educators to implement the Child Study Protocol whether students are at home or at school.
Child Study Workshop: A Community of Practice
September 2020–May 2021 • $695
Twelve online sessions throughout the school year
This Workshop brings participants from previous Child Study Trainings together in small, facilitated groups to refine and deepen their work, and supports them as they implement Child Study through this unusual year.
School Leadership
Leaders Workshop
A Community of Practice
September 2020–May 2021 • $695
Twelve online sessions throughout the school year
Public Montessori school leaders face unique challenges. This Workshop connects leaders across schools and time zones in small-group facilitated sessions, offering community, support, and real solutions tailored to each school’s specific needs and responsive to this unusual year.
Workshop I is available for leaders new to the community of practice. Workshop II is for leaders returning from a previous Workshop.
The Prepared Environment for Equity
Pedagogy, Programs, and Practice
October 5–November 11 • $195
Six-week course with three live sessions
A course for school leaders and leadership teams ready to take their next steps in reimagining and sustaining anti-bias, anti-racist Montessori schools.
Assessment
DERS – Developmental Environment Rating Scale
Orientation
Open enrollment year-round • $85
A three-hour online orientation to the DERS
This course introduces leaders and teachers to the Developmental Environment Rating Scale and how it can be used for coaching, support, and classroom assessment.
DERS – Developmental Environment Rating Scale
Training and Certification
Open enrollment year-round • $380
A six-hour online training and certification
The DERS, used for coaching, support, and assessment, measures classroom quality according to developmental outcomes such as executive functions, linguistic and cultural fluency, and social-emotional flexibility. This course provides training and a one-year subscription.
Orientation to Montessori Assessment
September 3–24 • $225
Four-week online course with four live sessions
Montessori education calls for a different approach to assessment. This course is an introduction to the Montessori Assessment Playbook, a strategy manual and collection of tools for an assessment model grounded in Montessori and supporting human flourishing.
Participants are eligible to join either or both Assessment Playbook Workshops to deepen and personalize their work with the tools.
Assessment Playbook Workshops
October–May • $400
Seven online sessions throughout the school year
These online communities of practice, for participants oriented to the Assessment Playbook, guide and refine implementation of the tools in real time.
Child-Level Assessment:
Tools include Observation Guidelines, Work Engagement Tools, Normalization and Adjustment Checks, and Skills Inventories.
Adult Assessment and Appraisal:
Tools include Teacher, Assistant, and Executive Appraisal Instruments, Reflective Practice Inventories, and the School Climate Survey.
For Teacher Educators
Leadership for Liberation
Ensuring Equity in Teacher Education
September 14–October 21 • $195
Six-week course with three live sessions
A course for teacher educators committed to liberatory models for anti-bias, anti-racist teacher development.
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