Advance your professional learning
Professional development for every Montessori educator—public or private.
PMAI offers year-round courses, workshops, and forums designed to support all Montessori classroom adults. Led by experienced Montessori practitioners, our programs integrate the latest research, best practices, and real-world insights to deepen your practice and strengthen your impact.
Seeking to grow your newly acquired skills with a collegial support community? Join a forum.
School leaders: are you interested in providing professional development tailored specifically for your staff and school needs? Let us know. We would love to work with you to customize your school’s professional development curriculum. To get started, download PMAI’s Full List of Professional Development offerings.
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2025 Fall Montessori Coaching Course
October 3, 10 and 17, 2025
11:00am - 5:00pm ETThe course is tailored for Montessori coaches, offering a roadmap to effectively coach school-based adults in supporting whole-school Montessori implementation, driving transformation for educators and children alike.
Continually updated with the latest insights from neuroscience, social psychology, and coaching, this course offers a comprehensive foundation ready for immediate use in schools, facilitating the seamless implementation of Montessori principles across diverse program types.
$475
CEUs: 1.8: purchase CEU through Loyola University Baltimore, MD
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Nautilus Approach for the Whole School Training
Friday, January 9, 2026
11:00am - 5:00pm ETThe Nautilus Approach replaces the traditional “discipline/behavior policy” that Montessori schools in the public sector often use in line with their school district or for lack of better alternatives. Like the Montessori method, it is a constructivist approach, focuses on the whole-human (rather than other discipline policies or systems which use a behaviorist approach), and aims to reconnect the child to their environment.
$175
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Montessori Orientation Course
Asynchronous
5 hours
Geared toward all members of the community, this new asynchronous course is a useful tool for the classroom, operations, custodial staff, volunteers, substitutes, and others. Everyone in a Montessori school plays an important role in the success of the school. Working as a team is invaluable to the entire learning community.
Participants will receive an introduction to Montessori and learn the basic Montessori concepts and terms. The video also includes the planes of development and key elements of Montessori environments, and prepares adults, new and seasoned, for working in Montessori schools.
Delivery Format: self-paced online
$75 individual, $750 school
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Montessori Assistant Course
Asynchronous
10 hours
This course was designed to fit within the school schedule. Intentionally short, it allows schools to orient assistants to their role efficiently and effectively. Fiercely pragmatic, this course provides both a framework of the Montessori approach and guidance on the practical aspects of the role. As participants progress through the course, they will be given valuable resources and tools that can be used immediately in their work in the classroom.
Delivery Format: self-paced online
$150 individual/$1500 school
PMAI Forums
Forums are an intentional community of practice, formed to provide support for on-going professional development across the school year. They provide time with other practitioners who are focused on the same work, share the same goals, and bring a variety of perspectives creating dynamism within the work to bring back to the schools being served.