A school’s culture is felt first by the adults who work there, and then by every child in their care. Drawing on more than twenty years of leading and transforming three Montessori schools, Tamara helps educators, school leaders and whole teams build communities where every adult is honored as worthy and excellent teaching is the expectation.
For your opening in-service day
Are we worthy of the people who work here? A keynote that sets the tone for the year: how a school honors its faculty and staff, and why that is exactly how excellent teaching happens.
Keynote · Opening day or conference
Leading a school community through uncertainty
How school leaders hold steady in a hard season, are honest about what they don’t yet know, and help faculty, families and children come out stronger.
Keynote or leadership retreat
Faculty meetings people are glad to attend
Designing faculty and team meetings with a clear purpose, every voice heard, and decisions that move the work forward.
Workshop · In person or virtual
Systems for engaging and elevating voice
How the everyday ways a school communicates, in meetings, observations and feedback, tell teachers whether they matter.
Workshop or series
The inner life of children, and of the adults who care for them
Spiritual, not religious, and welcoming to every family's beliefs. How a school can make room for each child's sense of wonder, awe, connection and meaning, and how the adults prepare their own inner lives to hold that space. Drawn from Tamara's work bringing spiritual preparation to the staff at Greenspring, where each adult names a spiritual goal every year.
Keynote, workshop or series · Faculty, leadership teams or families
Every child is worthy, and so is every adult who works alongside them. In this short clip, Tamara shares the idea at the heart of her work: worth is inherent, and capability is built.
“In just a few short weeks of Tamara’s mentorship, I have started to expand my understanding of leadership and my role within a larger community.”
Megan Fremming, Early Childhood Curriculum Coordinator, Montessori School of McLean
Every session is shaped around your school: an opening in-service day, a leadership team retreat, a faculty series across the year, or a session at your conference.
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