Professional Learning
Classroom Practice
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
October 8–November 12 • $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.
School Leadership
Leaders Workshop
A Community of Practice
October 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.
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