Finding Balance: Connection and Boundaries in Montessori Communities

1.5 CPD, Runtime: 58:54

The beginning of the school year has an incredible impact on the success of the rest of the year. However, we may find that as another new school year approaches, we go through the motions of Back to School Nights and Transition Visits without considering our intended goals or understanding how we can use these events to cultivate trust and form connections. Or perhaps we may start the year with lofty expectations, believing that this is the year we can "do it all." In this instance, we may need to come to terms with the fact that while our intentions may be boundless, our energy and time are finite.

"In Finding Balance: Connection and Boundaries in Montessori Communities", teachers and administrators will learn how to form meaningful connections with families in equal measure to communicating and practicing healthy boundaries. The sooner students and families feel a sense of connection as well as an understanding of the reasonable limits of what their school community can offer them, the sooner they can begin to thrive in their new environment!

Participants will come away with several supporting documents: Getting to Know You Form, Observation Form for Transition Visits as well as a simple Boundary Setting Guide.

Christine Carrig, M.S.Ed,  the founding director of Carrig Montessori School in Brooklyn, NY for this webinar. She has been in Montessori education for the past 19 years as both a teacher and administrator. She is also the Writer in Residence for the Khora: Maternal and Reproductive Psychology Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University where she focuses on the intersection between maternal development and child development. She lives in Queens, New York with her husband and four young children. AMS credentialed Primary/AMS credential 6-12 expected 2025.