
Thursday Pre-Conference Intensives
Our Thursday Intensives are a great opportunity to dig deep into specific areas, with some of the most relevant topics on Social Justice, Forgiveness and Special Ed & Inclusion. We are sure you and your faculty will benefit immensely from joining.

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Thursday, November 3, 2022
All times are given in Eastern Standard Time (USA)
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Fred Luskin & Jonathan Wolff


1A | Forgive for Good . . . It’s time to let go of the hurt, improve communication, and create better boundaries
(For All)
It’s virtually impossible to work as intensely and as intimately as we do with children and adults without suffering the slings and arrows of misunderstandings and miscommunication. Because we’re passionate about what we do, we tend to take judgment and criticism by others personally. We’re unsettled by conflict. We feel wounded. How then do we unburden ourselves of the baggage of resentment and antipathy? How do we mend broken relationships?
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We invite you to join Dr. Fred Luskin, founder of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, and Jonathan Wolff, for a full-day workshop on the art of letting go . . . and of speaking more assertively and effectively. . . . We will work with the difficult art of caring for ourselves while also working to care for others.
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Christine Lowry

Montessori Inclusion: A Model for Our Times
(For All)
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9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cindy Acker

Creating the prepared social justice classroom: Who are we and what goes on the shelves? Identifying opportunities while navigating the perils
(For School Leaders, Teacher Educators, Classroom Teachers)
So the first thing [one’s] education demands,” said Dr. Montessori, “is the provision of an environment in which [the child] can develop the powers given… it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.”
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Worldwide, the environmental experience has changed for the child and their family – requiring greater responsive attention to social justice in the classroom. In a concrete, Montessori environment, what does this look like, sound like, and feel like? This one-day social justice-oriented intensive, will center on the internal and concrete tools to transform the experience within the Montessori environment into one of deeper understanding, compassion, and empowerment for the world in which we find ourselves.
Connect with your inner work, our understanding of concepts like AAVE, THI and how we hold classrooms of honest social justice concepts in our schools.
The Montessori Foundation
19600 State Road 64 E
941-729-9565
Bradenton, FL 34212
info@montessori.org