Opening ceremony

9am Chiaravalle (CET) // 3am ET // 5pm Sydney

We have a wonderful line up for you to kick off this event. We’ll hear from Dr. Ayize Sabater from The Black Montessori Education Fund, enjoy some song, ceremony, and birthday wishes from around the world, and more…

Each session during the day will be opened by different performers, luminaries from our Montessori community, and a message from the Black Montessori Education Fund.

Challenge pavilion: Panel #1
The Environment

10am Chiaravalle (CET) // 4am ET // 6pm Sydney

This will be a powerful opening panel discussion. This panel is designed to challenge Montessorians to tap into their creativity and think of the environment in a way that includes more than the classroom and the materials, whether at home or at school.

Our four wonderful panelists for this discussion are:
Junnifa Echefu Uzodike (Nigeria)
Marvin Jose Reyes Moreno (Germany/Nicaragua)
Barbara Isaacs (UK/Czech Republic)
Jana Morgan Herman (US)

Connect pavilion:
Networking cafes

11am Chiaravalle (CET) // 5am ET // 7pm Sydney

Join a Zoom room and enjoy break out conversations with Montessori parents, educators, administrators, training organisations, entrepreneurs and more…

Select from one of our 8 online networking cafes:
1. Follow up to panel conversation – The Environment
2. Inclusion and diversity
3. Pandemic
4. 0-3 (infant/toddler)
5. 3-6 (casa/preschool)
6. 6-12 (elementary/primary)
7. 12-18 (adolescence)
8. Montessori entrepreneurs & social media

Celebrate pavilion:
Montessori Musical

12 noon Chiaravalle (CET) // 6am ET // 8pm Sydney

Join us to watch The Montessori Musical, by Mark Woodward – the story of Dr Maria Montessori as a musical performed by 8 to 14-year-olds, 3rd through 8th grade, of Montessori Academy.

Each session during the day will be opened by different performers, luminaries from our Montessori community, and a message from the Black Montessori Education Fund.

Challenge pavilion: Panel #2
The Adult

1pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 7am ET // 9pm Sydney

This panel is designed to challenge Montessorians to reconsider what we mean when we talk about “the prepared adult.”

We are honoured to have as panelists for this discussion:
Heidi Van Staden (South Africa)
Philip Gang (US/New Zealand)
Dr. Cindy Acker (US)
Hannah Joy Baynham (UK)

Connect pavilion:
Networking cafes

2pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 8am ET // 10pm Sydney

Join a Zoom room and enjoy break out conversations with Montessori parents, educators, administrators, training organisations, entrepreneurs and more…

Select from one of our 8 online networking cafes:
1. Follow up to panel conversation – The Environment
2. Inclusion and diversity
3. Pandemic
4. 0-3 (infant/toddler)
5. 3-6 (casa/preschool)
6. 6-12 (elementary/primary)
7. 12-18 (adolescence)
8. Montessori entrepreneurs & social media

Celebrate pavilion:
Make and take

3pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 9am ET // 11pm Sydney

Make and take is an hour of activities you can enjoy from your home. All ages welcome although some are for 6+ years.

Join us for:
Family Yoga with Createcalm.org
Origami making with Yuki Martin
Song of Peace from Montessori School of Tokyo
Making Guatemalan worry dolls with Carol Palmer
Make your own pin cushion with Aimee Fagan

What you’ll need for our Make and Take session

Challenge pavilion: Panel #3
The Community

4pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 10am ET // 12am Sydney

This panel is will keep challenging us to do better and think about peace education and social development. And how they are entwined with social justice and the individual development of the child as well as the adult.

We are excited to announce the four panelists in this conversation will be:
Sid Mohandas (UK/India)
Tatenda Blessing Muchiriri (US/Zimbabwe)
Koren Clark (US)
Regina Lulka (Canada/Mexico)

Connect pavilion: Networking cafes

5pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 11am ET // 1am Sydney

Join a Zoom room and enjoy break out conversations with Montessori parents, educators, administrators, training organisations, entrepreneurs and more…

Select from one of our 8 online networking cafes:
1. Follow up to panel conversation – The Environment
2. Inclusion and diversity
3. Pandemic
4. 0-3 (infant/toddler)
5. 3-6 (casa/preschool)
6. 6-12 (elementary/primary)
7. 12-18 (adolescence)
8. Montessori entrepreneurs & social media

Celebrate pavilion: Montessori around the world

6pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 12noon ET // 2am Sydney

We are blessed to be able to share with you Montessori children and educators from around the world. Thank you to all the schools and organisations who contributed these.

These include a variety of beautiful clips from:
1. MMUN (Montessori Model UN)
2. Norway
3. Vietnam
4. Colombia
5. Ecuador
6. And more

Challenge pavilion: Panel #4
The Child

7pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 1pm ET // 3am Sydney

This panel will be exploring the assumptions we make about children, the ways in which we inadvertently exclude children, and the ways we can be more accepting of all children.

We are delighted to announce that the following guests will be on our panel for this discussion:
Gabriel Salomao (Brazil)
Laura Flores Shaw (US)
Trisha Moquino (Cochiti Pueblo)
KimAnh Nguyen Anderson (US/Vietnam)

Connect pavilion:
Networking cafes

8pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 2pm ET // 4am Sydney

Join a Zoom room and enjoy break out conversations with Montessori parents, educators, administrators, training organisations, entrepreneurs and more…

Select from one of our 8 online networking cafes:
1. Follow up to panel conversation – The Environment
2. Inclusion and diversity
3. Pandemic
4. 0-3 (infant/toddler)
5. 3-6 (casa/preschool)
6. 6-12 (elementary/primary)
7. 12-18 (adolescence)
8. Montessori entrepreneurs & social media

Closing ceremony

9pm Chiaravalle (CET) // 3pm ET // 5am Sydney

Thank you to everyone for being part of this event – what a global Montessori community we are part of.