Workshops That Strengthen Your People, Systems & Culture
Montessori Makers workshops offer high-impact professional development designed to support whole schools, leadership teams, and faculty groups of any size. Whether your community is navigating a specific challenge or preparing for a new chapter of growth, these sessions bring clarity, alignment, and practical guidance directly to your team.
Every workshop translates Montessori principles into real-world practices that strengthen adult culture, deepen shared understanding, and support leaders in guiding their communities with confidence. Sessions can be tailored for full-staff PD, leadership-focused development, or team-specific training such as hiring committees, instructional leads, or emerging leaders.
Workshops are available in half-day, full-day, or multi-day formats, and each one can be customized to meet your school’s goals, schedule, and context. You choose the topic and timing — we bring the structure, expertise, and transformation.
What Makes Montessori Makers Workshops Unique
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Designed for Schools & Leadership Teams: Bring your entire community or focus on key roles.
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Practical & Actionable: Leave with tools and strategies you can implement immediately.
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Aligned to Montessori Values: Clear, equitable, and grounded in adult development.
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Fully Customizable: Tailored to your needs, challenges, and organizational rhythms.
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Focused on Culture & Systems: Not one-off PD — meaningful work that shifts practice.
Explore our workshop topics below or schedule a consultation, and we’ll design a professional development experience that meets your community exactly where it is.
What People Say
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Example Workshops
Equitable Interviewing & Hiring Practices
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Design a values-aligned hiring process that surfaces authentic alignment and reduces bias. Learn how to structure interviews, craft meaningful questions, and calibrate teams for clearer, more equitable decisions.
Great for: Leadership teams, hiring committees
Coaching Conversations That Support Growth
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Develop the mindsets and skills needed for supportive, dignity-centered coaching. Explore how to guide adults through reflection, feedback, and aligned next steps.
Great for: Instructional leaders, program directors, emerging leaders
People Policies That Reflect Your Values
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Redesign policies — from handbooks to communication protocols — so they are transparent, humane, and aligned with your mission.
Great for: School leaders, HR/operations, boards
Community Architecture: Rituals, Belonging & Collective Care
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Design the rhythms, rituals, and structures that help your school community feel connected and supported. Strengthen relationships across classrooms and roles.
Great for: Whole school PD, community coordinators, leadership teams
Designing Onboarding for Belonging
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Create an onboarding experience that builds trust, clarity, and connection from day one. Participants learn to design welcoming, sustainable systems that support new staff throughout their first 90 days.
Great for: School leaders, program directors, operations teams
Boundaries, Workflows & Sustainable Leadership
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Leadership requires clarity. This workshop helps leaders design sustainable workflows, decision-making habits, and healthy boundaries that support both effectiveness and well-being.
Great for: Heads of school, directors, administrative teams
Equity in Adult Culture: Practices That Shift the Day-to-Day
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Explore the structural and relational elements that influence fairness and belonging within your adult community. Leave with practices that make school culture more inclusive and equitable.
Great for: Whole staffs, leadership teams, equity committees
Storytelling & Identity: Communicating Who You Are
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Strengthen your school’s internal and external communication by anchoring it in identity, values, and clarity. Learn to communicate decisions, tell your story, and build shared language.
Great for: School leaders, communication/operations teams
Communication Rhythms That Build Trust
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Learn communication structures that reduce confusion, strengthen transparency, and help adults feel grounded. A practical dive into modeling, cadence, and clarity for healthier school culture.
Great for: Leadership teams, admin staff, faculty leads
Evaluating With Dignity: Foundations of the MMG Appraisal Cycle
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
A high-level introduction to growth-centered evaluation. Learn how to design an appraisal system rooted in clarity, justice, and Montessori philosophy.
Great for: Leadership teams, evaluators, program directors
Conflict Resolution & Difficult Conversations for Montessori Teams
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Build confidence navigating tension and disagreement with clarity and compassion. Learn frameworks for addressing challenges without sacrificing relationships or alignment.
Great for: Leadership teams, mixed-role groups, faculty
Strategic Visioning: Turning Montessori Values Into Action
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
A practical introduction to long-horizon planning. Explore how to articulate aim, identify priorities, and align people and systems toward a coherent vision for your school.
Great for: Boards, leadership teams, strategic planning committees
Equity in Daily Practice: Bringing Montessori Values to Life
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Explore how equity lives in the day-to-day interactions, structures, and language of a Montessori environment. This workshop helps staff reflect on biases, build shared commitments, and create more just and inclusive classrooms and workspaces.
Great for: Whole faculty, mixed-role teams
The Prepared Adult: Mindset, Modeling & Presence
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Just as children rely on a prepared environment, adults rely on a prepared mindset. This interactive workshop helps faculty deepen observational skills, emotional regulation, and daily habits that support the child and the community.
Great for: Guides, assistants, full faculty
Montessori 101: Foundations of the Philosophy
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
A welcoming introduction to Montessori education for new staff or those seeking a refresher. This workshop covers the core principles — independence, observation, environment, development, and the role of the adult — and connects them to everyday practice. Participants gain clarity, alignment, and a deeper understanding of the Montessori approach.
Great for: All faculty, assistants, new-to-Montessori staff
Belonging in Montessori Communities
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
A warm, reflective workshop that helps staff build a shared understanding of belonging — what it looks like, feels like, and requires. Learn community practices and classroom rituals that cultivate connection for children and adults alike.
Great for: Whole faculty, assistants, extended-day teams
Child, Family & School: Building a Unified Community
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
A community-wide workshop on strengthening the triad of child–family–school. Explore communication strategies, partnership practices, and ways to support consistent messaging and expectations across environments.
Great for: Faculty, support staff, family-facing teams
Montessori 201: Deepening Montessori Practice
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Build on foundational knowledge with a deeper exploration of key Montessori concepts including normalization, the absorbent mind, sensitive periods, cosmic education, and the prepared adult. Participants learn how Montessori’s developmental insights translate into classroom routines, environment design, and daily interactions that support independence and emotional intelligence.
Great for: Guides, assistants, returning staff, mixed teams
Montessori Adult Culture: How We Show Up for Each Other
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
This session invites the whole staff to explore the principles of Montessori adult development. Together, we examine communication, collaboration, dignity, and collective responsibility to create a thriving, aligned culture.
Great for: Entire staff, culture committees, teaching teams
The Mosaic of Community: Building Interconnected Teams
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
Explore what healthy adult communities need to thrive through the lens of Terry Cross’s nonhierarchical model and Montessori principles. This workshop teaches practical structures that foster safety, creativity, open communication, and mutual respect.
Great for: Whole staff, leadership teams, culture committees
Montessori 301: Advanced Montessori Through the Lens of Attachment & Development
Half-day • Full-day • Customizable
This advanced session focuses on attachment, developmental needs by plane, and the educator mindsets that shape a child’s growth. Through case studies and reflective practice, participants explore how to support resilience, emotional development, and secure relationships in Montessori environments.
Great for: Experienced guides, assistants, specialists, leadership teams