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Staff Planning for Next Year – Comings, Goings, and Growth.

Staff Planning for Next Year – Comings, Goings, and Growth.

by | Administrative Team, Communication, Covid, Faculty, Montessori Administrators, Recruitment & Admissions, School Identity, School Leadership, School Resources, Start of School Year, The International Montessori Council, Video, Webcasts / IMC

This is the time of year when school leaders ask themselves the following questions. Who is staying and who is leaving, who needs to move on, and who needs to grow in their teaching practice or professionalism? Our discussion will focus on how we make staffing...
World-Class Montessori Schools Commitment to Excellence

World-Class Montessori Schools Commitment to Excellence

by | Administrative Team, Educational Program Coordination, Faculty, ML Feb 2022, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Leadership Magazine, School Identity, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council

Over the past decades, a constantly growing number of schools have approached the Montessori Foundation ready, willing, and anxious to begin the journey from being simply good Montessori schools to becoming great ones. We have called this process Building a...

Why You Need a Blueprint of Your School’s Core Values and How to Prepare It As a Community

by | Boards, Educational Program Coordination, MFA, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Education, Parent Education, School Identity, School Leadership, School Resources, The International Montessori Council

The Montessori School Blueprint Model Introduction Montessori schools are different – profoundly different – from the familiar traditional classrooms that most of us attended in our childhood years. Those of us who have spent years around Montessori...
Refining your Marketing Message: Points to Ponder

Refining your Marketing Message: Points to Ponder

by | Administrative Team, Educational Program Coordination, Effective Boards, Montessori Administrators, Parent Education, Re-enrollment, Recruitment & Admissions, School Identity, School Leadership, The International Montessori Council

Refining your Marketing Message: Points to Ponder was published in the June 2006 issue of Montessori Leadership By Jake Mortensen Marketing your school can seem like an immense undertaking, but it does not have to be. Even a little marketing can go a long way if you approach it correctly, with a good strategy being […]

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The Blueprint Process Condensed

The Blueprint Process Condensed

by | Montessori Administrators, School Identity, The International Montessori Council, Uncategorized

The Montessori Foundation encourages schools to clearly set down their core philosophy and beliefs into a very specific formal written document, The Blueprint, and thereafter to use it as a road map in making decisions, setting new policy, and evaluating the educational program. This document explains the process of initially developing the Blueprint for the […]

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Sample Blueprint of a Montessori School’s Core Values

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The Sample Montessori School A Blueprint of Our Fundamental Values and Beliefs Our Vision  Our broadest vision is of a world that lives in peace, a world community based on interdependence and respect for all life and all people. Our vision for our school is a...