For Schools
Join Montessori Canada
Montessori Canada connects your school with a vibrant, nationwide community dedicated to delivering high-quality Montessori education. Whether your school is well-established or just beginning to take root, we are dedicated to providing the professional support to help your school thrive in alignment with Montessori principles.
Your enrollment in the Montessori Canada community begins on July 1 and runs through June 30 and renews annually.
Why Join Montessori Canada
Why Join Montessori Canada
Visibility and Credibility
Enhance your school’s reputation and credibility to parents seeking an authentic Montessori education for their children with a listing on the Montessori Canada website linking to your website.
Accreditation and Standards
Montessori Canada Accreditation makes good schools better by helping your school align with consistency of standards, ensuring quality and preserving the Montessori philosophy and spirit of Montessori education.
Community and Support
Being part of Montessori Canada provides you with access to forums, monthly communiques, virtual community conversations and more as a source of support, proven practices and networking within a vibrant and diverse community.
Complimentary Enrollment
Enrollment for Your School Community (Value of $99 per person/year). When your school joins Montessori Canada, your administrators, educators, school staff, and families/supporters in your school community receive complimentary enrollment as a Montessori Canada Associate and gain access to exclusive resources, content, discounts and more.
Professional Development
Receive promotional pricing and invitations to exclusive events, access to workshops, conferences, and resources focused on Montessori education to help support, inform, and enhance both educators and administrators.
Career Advertisements
Complimentary career advertisements on the Montessori Canada website.
Preferred Vendors
Enjoy discounts and access to products, services, tools and resources that understand the unique needs of Montessori schools.
Representation
Montessori Canada represents the interests of Montessori Education with government. Our community is kept involved, informed and engaged as the policy landscape changes.
Enrollment Options for Schools
We offer pathways tailored to your school’s unique needs. All Montessori Canada Member and Affiliate schools adhere to the following General School Standards:
- Licensed by the appropriate provincial licensing authority.
- Meet all relevant building, health, safety, and fire codes and carry appropriate insurance.
- Guided by the educational philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori.
- Abide by the Montessori Canada Code of Ethics.
- Employ Montessori trained teachers.
- Ensure that classes feature core Montessori materials.
- Value focused concentration/spontaneous activity, and the development of the whole child.
- Open to the concept that learning is a social process and have some multi-age groupings in their school dynamic.
- Value an uninterrupted work cycle.
- Engage in professional development regarding Montessori pedagogy and the operation of a Montessori school.
Affiliate Schools
All schools wishing to join Montessori Canada, must first join as an Affiliate and meet the General Schools Standards (above). An Affiliate school may then apply to become an Applicant Member and work towards becoming an Montessori Canada Accredited Member school, subject to approval and readiness by Montessori Canada Accreditation & Development Lead. Pricing is based on the number of enrolled students at the school, with prices starting at $1,200 annually.
Applicant Members
An Applicant Member is taking the first step in working toward the Montessori Canada Accreditation process. Approved by the Montessori Canada Accreditation and Development Lead, an Applicant Member can begin to use the Montessori Canada Applicant logo to demonstrate to families that the school is committed to the Accreditation process and aims to provide students with high-quality, authentic Montessori education. Applicant Members have up to 3 years to complete the process of their initial Montessori Canada Accreditation.
If you’re interested in learning more about becoming an Applicant Member in pursuit of Montessori Canada Accreditation, please contact Montessori Canada Community Services Lead Amy Carter.
Accredited Members
An Accredited Member is a school that has applied for Montessori Canada Accreditation and successfully completed the rigorous, 12 to 18 month Montessori Canada Accreditation process. This process involves a self-study focused on Montessori best practices and is verified by peers through documentation and a site visit. The school’s commitment to successfully meeting Montessori Canada Accreditation criteria and ongoing improvement and accountability is reviewed annually. Any Substantive Changes (e.g., the addition of a new classroom or program), may require an additional visit to Accredit the changes. Accredited Member schools complete a Reaccreditation process every 5 years. Montessori Canada offers support to guide the school through the process.
If you’re interested in learning more about becoming an Accredited Member, please contact Montessori Canada Community Services Lead Amy Carter