045: Why Planning and Recordkeeping is Essential for Montessori Schools

Planning and recordkeeping is essential for Montessori educators. It provides alignment for your classrooms and allows you to articulate to parents what their children are learning. Meanwhile, it still allows educators the freedom and adaptability to explore their students’ interests more in depth.In today’s episode, I’m talking to Elizabeth Slade of Public Montessori in Action, which aims to ensure fully-implemented Montessori education for children, families, and educators of the global majority. Elizabeth has created a Montessori Planning and Recordkeeping Guide and we discuss how it’s been beneficial for the schools that have piloted it, how it creates structure in the classroom, and how it can address equity in the learning environment. If your school doesn’t already have a planning and recordkeeping system in place, there are tools out there to help you simplify the process, and this is your reminder to get started. What’s in this episode:How the Montessori Planning and Recordkeeping (MPR) Guide that Elizabeth created simplifies those tasks for educatorsHow educators in the public Montessori schools that Elizabeth has worked with have piloted the guide and found it beneficialWhy recordkeeping tools can create alignment and structure in the classroomHow the MPR Guide focuses on and addresses equity in the learning environmentHow planning and recordkeeping tools help increase a program's fidelity to high quality Montessori implementationFor full show notes, resources, links and to download the transcript, visit:https://www.trilliummontessori.org/planning-is-essential/Resources Mentioned in This Episode:Public Montessori in ActionMontessori Planning and Recordkeeping GuideFree Tools for Montessori practitionersConnect With UsVisit our websiteFollow us on InstagramConnect with us on Facebook