Upcoming Events
Reading Roundtable: Mandate or Myth? Unraveling the 3-Hour Work Cycle
Join the Montessori Network of New Mexico for a thought-provoking virtual Reading Roundtable as we explore Jana Morgan Herman's groundbreaking article "Mandate or Myth? The Uninterrupted 3-Hour Work Cycle."
When & Where
Saturday, 5/18/24
Time
9 am - 10:30 am
Cost
Sliding scale $5 - $25
Past Events
REINVIGORATE YOUR MONTESSORI PRACTICE WITH SYNEVA BARRETT
Join us for our first in-person networking event with Syneva Barrett. This is an opportunity to implement self-care, heighten your observation skills, and connect with the educational community across New Mexico .
When & Where
Saturday, 10/14/23
Escuela del Sol Montessori
1114 7th St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
TIME
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM MST
Investment
$125
HOPES and FEARS: WORKING WITH TODAY’S PARENTS
For years now, school educators have been reporting that parents are more challenging to work with: more anxious about their children, more consumerist in their approach to school.
Drawing on his new book, co-written with Michael Thompson, Hopes and Fears: Working with Today’s School Parents, Dr. Rob Evans will outline the causes and consequences of these changes and offer practical ways teachers and administrators can hold their ground and strengthen their relationships with parents.
Anti-racist Practices in the School: Indigenizing the Classroom and Having Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Our fall workshop features Dr. Ayize Sabater, the Executive Director of AMI, Trisha Moquino, Founder and Director of Keres Children’s Learning Center
When
Saturday, 10/22/22
Time
9 AM - 12 PM
Investment
$100
When
Saturday, 11/13/21
Time
9 AM - 12 PM
Cost
$75
how to implement anti-bias and culturally-relevant practices into your CURRICULUM and classrooms with Dr. Kathy Powers, Dr. Nancy Lopez, and Dr. Finnie COleman
A continuation of our December workshop, this workshop revisits how educators can utilize their anti-bias training to enrich their classrooms and curriculum, creating environments and coursework that acknowledge and address inequities for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ children and families. Our workshop presenters give practical tools to utilize and implement, drawing upon the core tenets of Montessori education and social justice.
When
Saturday, 1/30/21
Time
9 AM - 12 PM
Cost
$50
Anti-Racism, Human Rights, and Montessori Education with KATHY POWERS, Dr. Nancy López, and Dr. finnie d. coleman.
Maria Montessori developed an educational approach focused on the intellectual, social, emotional, and moral development of the child. It is little known among those unfamiliar with Montessori core values that Dr. Montessori believed an educational approach grounded in respect for human rights could spark a movement among children that could contribute to global peace.
Our workshop focuses on examining racial bias in education, using an intersectional lens to understand the complexity of racial bias in an increasing multicultural world, and how an anti- racist approach to education married with the existing human rights underpinnings of Montessori education could help Montessori educators address anti-racism and discrimination in the classroom.
When
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Time
9 AM - 12 PM
Cost
$50
Change, Grief, and Transformation: How executive function and healing rituals can help process trauma, increase awareness, strengthen community, and develop skills for a whole new world with syneva Barrett & katie ibes
March 2020 interrupted life as we knew it. Like waking from a deep sleep, suddenly all that we depended on as normal was upended. The human psyche, and our children, need safety and security to establish a sense of health and well-being. How do we create a feeling of stability and predictability when the world is shifting and moving beneath our feet? How can we prepare to welcome a different future then we expected? This societal crisis has shown us that we are moving forward into an emerging future instead of the ‘planned future’ we imagined. For this emerging future, we will need to develop a new set of Executive Function skills. Katie will share key points about these new skills and techniques to cultivate them within ourselves, our Montessori environments, and beyond. Change and evolution are a natural part of life on Earth. As Montessorians, we know this, but as humans, we often resist change because it challenges our sense of control, order, and stability. When an entire community is experiencing change, it can lead to destabilization, heightened emotions and increased conflicts. Rituals are healing processes that allow space for us to explore our truth and process our experiences and feelings while being held in community. Syneva will lead you in three rituals to help you grieve for the past, center in the present, and set hope and intention for the emergent future. Leave with new presentations for your peace area for children to use when they are processing their own feelings and experiences.
When
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Time
9 AM - 4 PM (with lunch break)
Cost
$100
Developing critically conscious educators with Mario benabe & Aura Cely
In partnership with Mario Benabe, school leader, activist, and primary lead guide at the Gloria Alston Children’s Learning Center; and Aura Cely, school leader, activist, and primary lead guide at the Gloria Alston Children’s Learning Center.
Uncovering the ways we unconsciously or consciously engage in implicit and explicit bias and revoke our ties to them. This session will support educators in radically reimagining their roles in educational equity while developing their capacity to actively engage in social justice.
Participants were asked to bring an artifact that represented who they are and why they teach, and read Read James Baldwin’s, “My Dungeon Shook” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Letter to My Son prior to the workshop.
When
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Time
9 AM - 12 PM
Cost
Sliding scale $35-$55