Registration for this advisory program is closed.

 A guided collaboration on your "real time" concerns and challenges

Advisory Program for Montessori Administrators

Sue Pritzker, AMI Trainer of Administrators Course
5 sessions, September 26, 2024 - January 16, 2025
Thursdays 5:15 - 7:15 PM CEST
Online on Zoom

Start working towards improving your school in key areas to make it stable

creating policy that supports program

design observation, assessment and feedback systems

nurture responsive teaching and development of administration teams

This is a place for administrators to meet monthly, where they can learn new skills AND share and strategize about current issues and challenges. Join Sue Pritzker, AMI trainer for the Administrators Certificate course and retired Head of School, for the support you so often need.

Customize the implementation of new ideas, policies and procedures and understand better how to make do with the challenges and resources you have. Cultivate new ways to look at your problems through the eyes of others who do the same work as you every day. 

This program will provide you with:

  • Discuss your day-to-day problems with an experienced Montessori leader
  • Deep dive into topics developing your whole school, setting it up for a long-term sustainability and stability
  • Find space to discuss your work as a leader with fellow Montessori colleagues
  • Equip your toolbox with materials, handouts and templates that you can use in your own school and lessen the operational workload
  • Take away “action steps” to work on in between sessions, reflect on your progress (or found difficulties) and keep moving forward
  • Choose further topics that are most relevant to you as a group

Study alongside administrators (principals, board members, business managers) from around the world, engage in lively discussions and share in order to experience new perspectives. 

Sue will also discuss the foundational work that schools will need to embrace as AMI moves toward the adoption of a global accreditation system. 

Meet your advisor

Sue Pritzker

Sue Pritzker was the Head of School at Childpeace Montessori School in Portland, Oregon for 33 years. Sue is an AMI trainer with the AMI Administrator Certificate Course. Sue is also a trainer with Whole School Leadership. She is a primary level consultant with AMI-USA, a founding member of Montessori Administrators Association, Montessori Leaders Collaborative and Lead Montessori. Sue now works as a consultant, advisor, and lecturer for various Montessori organizations.

Sessions topics

  • Session 1: No one likes surprises
    Creating job descriptions, staff and parent handbooks, templates for policy
  • Session 2: Sell Montessori not a compromise
    Implementing authentic Montessori creates a cohesive communication plan
  • Session 3: Hire people, not resumes
    Hire like you are building for the future, because you are, even when the global workforce is changing
  • Session 4: Observation-assessment-feedback-evaluation
    These are all ONE WORD, or they should be in your vocabulary.
  • Session 5: Conversations for Growth
    Problems not discussed and resolved are like a hamster on a treadmill-designed to repeat. Brave conversations build a healthy work environment for all.

This Program is for:

school leaders

directors

founders

administrators

References:

"I would like to give a shout out to Sue, I felt she spoke from the depth of her experience, she made it available to us, she also shared the setbacks she went through. We need to feel that it is possible to reach the point we work towards, and I did feel that."
Participant at Sue's course in 2022
"I appreciated The practicality for admins in the school, the “shortcuts” we received from Sue that would otherwise take years of trial and error to figure out ourselves. Sue enabled us to work more systematically in our schools. "
Participant at Sue's course in 2022

Join a waiting list!

We will get in touch with you as soon as the next program for administrators opens.

Join us - we have 20 spots available!

REGISTRATION

437 EUR

per person

First online session:

September 26, 2024

 5:15- 7:15 PM CEST

✔ Access to the program (5 sessions) LIVE on Zoom

✔ Continuous support from Sue

✔ Certificate of attendance issued
by Montessori Institute Prague

MEETINGS ONLINE

LIVE ONLY! Classes will be held on Zoom in 5 sessions from September to January

CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

Issued by Montessori Institute Prague for 100% attendance

Frequently Asked Questions

Will I receive AMI accreditation after the program?

No, you will not receive AMI accreditation based on finishing this program. However, this program will equip your school with the necessary foundations and improvements needed for future AMI accreditation and continual growth.

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?

Feel free to contact us!