Early Childhood Mentoring Communities

Name: Early Childhood Mentoring Communities
Brand: Maitri Learning
Price: 600.0 USD
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$600.00 USD

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Rooted in Neurodevelopment
High quality materials
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Parent/Homeschool
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Join one of our early childhood mentoring cohorts to get evidence-based mentoring with the researchers/mentors who designed this proven approach. Our year-long, longitudinal research study found that mentees who participated in this program experienced:

Increased self-confidence/self efficacy
Decreased burnout
Increased sense of community
Ability to set and achieve goals

Each mentoring session follows an uplifting, action-based approach including:

Noticing what's working now
Sharing challenges and successes with peers
Mentor presentations of time-sensitive content (based on teacher needs)
Brainstorming on solutions to address what's happening now in your classroom
Targeting areas of focus
Setting new and checking in on past SMART goals

This evidence-based format is designed to help early childhood teachers thrive.

We'll meet as a group on Zoom (five mentees minimum) for one hour in the time slots listed. Enroll by choosing the time slot that works best for you. We'll send confirmations and dates once we have enrolled a full group for your time slot.

Choose from twice monthly or weekly sessions.

Poland Mentoring! The 1 pm EST time slot is specifically designed to support teachers in Poland. The mentoring session will include slide captions and zoom captions in Polish (imperfect but helpful); basic English abilities recommended.

Mentoring w Polsce! Godzina 13:00 czasu EST została specjalnie zaprojektowana, aby wspierać nauczycieli w Polsce. Sesja mentoringowa będzie obejmować podpisy slajdów i podpisy Zoom w języku polskim (niedoskonałe, ale pomocne); zalecana podstawowa znajomość języka angielskiego.

Note: Fees are non-refundable (even if you don't attend any or some sessions) unless the cohort is cancelled or unable to meet minimum enrollment numbers. Price is per person.

Read details about how this approach was developed in our Mentoring Communities blog post. Learn more about the format in our Mentoring Communities Book.

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Meet our Mentors

Julia Volkman

Julia Volkman is the Founder/President of Maitri Learning. a Faculty member with the Brain Health Initiative, a recurrent Teaching Fellow/Guest Lecturer in the Neuroscience of Learning course (Harvard), and an educational researcher (her thesis on the movable alphabet won the Dean’s Prize at Harvard and she is currently conducting ongoing research on evidence-based mentoring programs).

Among other things, Julia has worked as a columnist for the Public School Montessorian (now Montessori Public) and as the teacher’s representative on the Advisory Panel for the Annenberg Foundation's course Neuroscience & the Classroom (developed in conjunction with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). Julia also helped design and pilot a residential teacher education program for high-poverty public schools with the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS). You can read about the wonderful lasting effects of this program at Libertas School of Memphis. and read about the design on her blog.

Julia earned her AMI 3 to 6+ diploma from the Montreal Montessori Training Centre (a bilingual program) and her Master’s degree from Harvard University. Her work focuses on transforming education into a transdisciplinary, scientific pedagogy grounded in mind, brain, and education (aka, Montessori education).

Watch Julia's YouTube videos on Montessori, Neurodevelopment, and more.

Veronica Burbano

Veronica has over 16 years of experience as an educator. After taking her Montessori training in 2012, Veronica established the bilingual Casa de Niños program at the Amherst Montessori School where she worked for over 10 years. Veronica currently serves as an AMI Teacher Trainer at the Montessori Training Center of the Northeast in Hartford, CT (MTCNE). She has also offered consultation services to new guides at the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS) and the Cambridge Montessori Institute (CMI).

Veronica has a strong passion for social-emotional development and is currently working on an AMI research paper titled, “How the Brain Supports the Integration of Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Development in Early Childhood and its Relation to Dr. Montessori’s Theory of Social Development in Children.”

Listen to Veronica's podcast with the Greenspring Center for Lifelong Learning.

Early Childhood Mentoring Communities

$600.00 USD

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Early Childhood Mentoring Communities

Meet our Mentors

Julia Volkman

Veronica Burbano