https://collaborative-montessori.com Collaborative Montessori Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:38:53 +0000 https://collaborative-montessori.com en https://collaborative-montessori.com/Header-Text Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:37:55 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/Header-Text <img width="1686" height="1569" width_o="1686" height_o="1569" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/358bfc60943740d2589c6f898f2e3baf7a6ba7b7d221174f099301b40040e94a/Untitled-1.png" data-mid="123393656" border="0" data-scale="23" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/358bfc60943740d2589c6f898f2e3baf7a6ba7b7d221174f099301b40040e94a/Untitled-1.png" /> For the community, with the community. https://collaborative-montessori.com/Mission Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:37:55 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/Mission Our Mission Inspire and grow an early years education community to meet the needs of individual children while supporting and encouraging families, teachers, students and schools. Working cooperatively to bring quality Montessori experiences to everyone through consulting, training, collaboration and mentoring. Our Vision Transforming the world by connecting, cultivating and collaborating, through humility, patience, tolerance and love. For more information about our services please contact us at:&nbsp; info@collaborative-montessori.com ︎ Collaborative Montessori ︎ collaborativemontessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/What-We-Do Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:37:55 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/What-We-Do What We Do <img width="3509" height="2481" width_o="3509" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3571b406616841291ff4a94cc34f7a466aed86a2bd2b127d6a8ac70c10b4ab07/Collaborative_Consultancy.jpg" data-mid="123395953" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3571b406616841291ff4a94cc34f7a466aed86a2bd2b127d6a8ac70c10b4ab07/Collaborative_Consultancy.jpg" /> <img width="3509" height="2481" width_o="3509" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92d23c81ee8e4cb30eba20badff367eb2e98f089fefcdf8f2a107e53d9b91255/Accred.jpg" data-mid="128398075" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92d23c81ee8e4cb30eba20badff367eb2e98f089fefcdf8f2a107e53d9b91255/Accred.jpg" /> <img width="3509" height="2481" width_o="3509" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c62573ea64638b6e3cbbe3f80bf56369e79ccee02796ca52159e3bb9e7bd2a52/Collaborative_Training.jpg" data-mid="123395960" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c62573ea64638b6e3cbbe3f80bf56369e79ccee02796ca52159e3bb9e7bd2a52/Collaborative_Training.jpg" /> https://collaborative-montessori.com/Collaborative-Consultancy Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:14:03 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/Collaborative-Consultancy Collaborative ConsultancyCollaboration is at the foundation of everything we do. We value working in partnership for a compelling cause, establishing mutual goals and encouraging innovation. We see the importance of placing the child at the centre of practice and decisions. We believe we can do this by sharing our expertise through consultancy, the Montessori way. We listen, observe, ask questions, guide, and co-construct solutions which will work for your unique community or needs. Combined, our team has many decades of experience in early years education, not only in Montessori teacher training,&nbsp; but also in school leadership, mentorship, course design and social impact projects.&nbsp; Each member of our team has a specialism, and a unique contribution to our collaborative, and if we don’t have the specific expertise you need, we know someone who does! Consultancy requires listening and problem solving, as well as new unique approaches to benefit schools, training, and ultimately the children in our care. Collaborative Consultancy can help with course development, starting a new nursery, improving practice in your setting, or helping develop new ideas and projects with a Montessori focus. We value and encourage community. A community that cares about each other, care about the world and its future, and work towards this through collaborative work and inclusion. Our community is where all members feel a sense of belonging, share passion for social justice, peace, education and actively contribute to positive changes. Part of our consultancy is our commitment to social impact work, to help ensure accessible Montessori that is culturally responsive and rooted in using education as a tool for peace. Collaborative Consultancy is here and ready to contribute to your positive change. For more information on our services, or to consult with our team please email us at info@collaborative-montessori.com https://collaborative-montessori.com/Collaborative-Accreditation Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:14:03 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/Collaborative-Accreditation Collaborative Accreditation&nbsp; Our Collaborative Accreditation Programme offers settings the opportunity for a meaningful review of their existing Montessori practice, using a scheme that encourages self-evaluation and reflection; settings are supported by experts in the field of Montessori education who commit to provide appropriate bespoke guidance and resources to aid progressive development. Our mentors and assessors will enter into a respectful relationship with each setting where their unique circumstances and characteristics are taken into consideration and celebrated at each stage of the process. Whilst maintaining an open view on current practice, our programme provides clear criteria that define high quality Montessori practice, from which settings can learn, evaluate themselves and plan for further development. Our accreditation programme is created around the principles of the dynamic triangle where the child is always at the centre of this interrelated and multifaceted relationship and where the environment remains the important tool through which natural development unfolds; it recognises the role of the adult as shared amongst all significant people in the life of the child and that this role extends to the wider community too. Our Accreditation programme is a reflective approach to quality assurance, one which: - Identifies and celebrates Montessori best practice, whilst acknowledging that each setting is unique in its outlook and circumstances. - Promotes quality enhancement, collaboration and a developmental outlook. - Enables authentic Montessori settings to be recognised, for their work to be celebrated and to enable them to be promoted and acknowledged as offering high quality Montessori practice. At Collaborative Montessori we believe that reflective practice is an essential process in ensuring the best outcomes for the children we care for and their families; developmental goals and aspirations are better achieved when we collaborate and grow together. Click here to learn more https://collaborative-montessori.com/Collaborative-Training Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:22:37 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/Collaborative-Training Collaborative Training Collaborative Training is firmly based on our commitment to work and learn together, and for this to continue to create opportunities for teachers, parents and adults in the community who are dedicated to and care about all children now, and about the world they will inhabit and contribute to, in the future. We are dedicated in promoting&nbsp;lifelong learning and we share the responsibility all Montessorians to continue to challenge, understand and evolve to best serve the child. We share the responsibility to encourage and develop dispositions, attitudes, knowledge and abilities for reflective practice. At Collaborative Montessori, we design and provide opportunities, tools, resources, and mentoring support to develop and share expertise, knowledge and skills and cultivate continued professional and personal development- cornerstones of effective, compassionate, and inspirational education. We organise regular workshops centred on specific aspects of Montessori philosophy and pedagogy that underpin and are applied in teachers’ and parents’ daily interactions with children. Our workshops are created to respond to and meet the interests and the needs expressed by colleagues in the community; they are hosted by colleagues for colleagues and are also open to parents or anyone interested.&nbsp; With many Montessorian colleagues ready and willing to support the whole community, each workshop is run in a different Montessori setting, with representative members of the team welcoming participants and opening their prepared environment. All workshops provide resources and guided discussion to nurture mutual support and sustained shared learning. We design and deliver bespoke workshops for Early Years Montessori Settings, for continued professional development. These Collaborative Montessori workshops are created in full partnership with schools: together we identify your needs, we analyse and agree on the theme or focus of content. We look together at the time and mode of participation and delivery (online, in person, blended synchronous sessions). Workshops can be sessional, for your inset day CPD, or can be designed as a cycle of workshops.&nbsp; What we offer is therefore unique and tailored to your setting and team. We are developing our Training Courses. It is still early days, since we formed Collaborative Montessori, and we hope to share with you the launch of the first course in the near future.&nbsp; For more information on our services, or to consult with our team please email us at info@collaborative-montessori.com To learn more about our upcoming workshops, please click here. https://collaborative-montessori.com/Who-We-Are-1 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:38:53 +0000 Collaborative Montessori https://collaborative-montessori.com/Who-We-Are-1 Who We Are Our Values To IncludeTo Champion the Child To Promote Lifelong Learning To Cultivate Reflective Practitioners To Encourage Community To Cultivate Citizens of the World We are committed to fostering and nurturing a culture of inclusion that respects and celebrates each person’s unique characteristics. We believe that embracing and valuing individual perspectives brings better understanding and appreciation of difference and allows us to effect positive change in collaboration with our diverse communities, for the benefit of all. We believe in the limitless potential of every child. We understand each child’s need for time and space to develop and grow at their own pace. We are committed to understanding and championing each child’s needs, desires, and dreams, and we aim to place these at the heart of all that we do. Lifelong learning is a responsibility for all Montessorians, to continue to challenge, understand and evolve to best serve the child of today. We design and provide opportunities, tools, resources, and mentoring support to develop and share expertise, knowledge and skills and cultivate continue professional and personal development- cornerstones of effective, compassionate and inspirational education. A community of adults and children that care about each other, care about the world and its future, and work towards this through collaborative work and inclusion. Our community is where all members feel a sense of belonging, share passion for social justice, peace, education and actively contribute to positive changes. Embracing similarities and the celebration of differences between all people; the breaking of societal, class, geographical and racial barriers and developing a sense/feeling of belonging to one race, the human race. 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After having her own children, she left the City to pursue a more joyful career working with children. Hannah has set up and run local toddler groups and drop-ins for children and families which inspired her to become a Montessori teacher. She trained as a teaching assistant (AMI) and then received her international Diploma in Montessori Pedagogy (MCI). Hannah moved to teacher training and at MCI was a lecturer, and group tutor for the Foundation Degree in Montessori Early Childhood Practice and the Early Years Educator course. More recently, she has written CPD courses for practitioners and developed resources to use in settings to support inclusive practice. Hannah is passionate about the outdoor environment and works part time at Unity Montessori School where she can often be found in the school garden playing with the children. Hannah is really looking forward to serving and supporting children, families, students, practitioners and the wider community as part of Collaborative Montessori. Sarah@collaborative-montessori.com Sarah Olley was lucky enough to have a Montessori education from 2 to 9 years of age. She studied at London Montessori Centre (now Montessori Centre International, MCI) after travelling and working in Africa. The dream was to return and work with families in rural communities. Instead in 1988, Sarah started to work in an East London school and in the evenings working at MCI. Sarah moved to a full time position at MCI and her roles have covered being a group tutor for the Foundation Degree courses and Montessori Diploma courses, lecturing all curriculum areas, supporting student wellbeing and study skills, mentoring, quality assurance, school accreditation, as well as providing bespoke CPD. She was part of the team that developed the Montessori Early Years Educator programme. She has owned her own small Nido and Children’s House. She placed highly commended in the Nursery World’s Trainer of the Year in 2015. Sarah led MCI’s outreach work at the Museum of Childhood with special focus play sessions for the under 3’s. Sarah’s heart and soul is in working with others in continuing to improve experiences for children. Hannahjoy@collaborative-montessori.com Hannah Baynham is a teacher educator who is passionate about issues of social justice, sustainability and the spiritual preparation of the guide. Having worked in schools around the world, she has a unique view of the importance of Cosmic Education in our early years environments. She is the founder of Montessori Movement Unites Facebook group, and was the Early Years Educator course leader, lecturer and group tutor at Montessori Centre International. She has had the privilege of speaking at several conferences including Montessori Europe Congress, and the American Montessori Event as well as being a regular speaker at Montessori Musings, and Montessori Everywhere Events. Hannah is inspired by the Montessori community and her love for the transformative nature of Montessori education which she sees as a gift to children everywhere. Antonella@collaborative-montessori.com Antonella Cirillo has a background in Psychology and has been part of the Montessori community for more than twenty years. She was the Foundation Degree in Montessori Early Childhood Practice Course leader, academic lecturer, and tutor at Montessori Centre International. Antonella is passionate about Cosmic Education, at the core of which are love, respect of and trust in every and each child of today, adult of tomorrow. She strongly believes in the continue professional, emotional, and spiritual preparation of educators, and in the transformational powers of communities. Michela@collaborative-montessori.com Michela Castellarin is an Italian professional and expert in the Montessori approach to early years education who has been working with the Montessori community as lecturer, academic tutor and school support and accreditation officer for the last 20 years, both in the Uk and internationally. She has also been involved in a project to transform a Montessori school in rural Malawi.From the start, all her work has always been driven by the belief that the Montessori method and her philosophy on Cosmic Education are the means through which children can realise their full potential, are truly valued for their uniqueness and will be able to change the future for the better and the common good.