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Welcome to the International Montessori Council.

The International Montessori Council (IMC) is a world-wide umbrella organization of Montessori schools and the men and women who lead them, own them, or serve on their boards. Its focus is on issues of concern to Montessori school leaders: administration, curriculum development, recruitment and hiring, supervising teachers and staff, insurance, finance, facilities, working with boards, recruitment, building community, fund raising, public relations, and so forth.

At $250 USD a year, school membership is rather inexpensive, and the benefits are of great value to schools.

This website contains a wealth of information open to the public.

Many more articles, videos, pdf books and other resources are available to members in our password protected members area.

For more information please contact our membership director:

Margot Garfield-Anderson
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Powerpoints and handouts from 2011 Conference now available

Friday, 11 November 2011 13:39 | Written by Sharon Caldwell

The following powerpoints and handhouts are now available to IMC members.

Authentic Montessori Public Charter Schools - Josie Zinninger

Enhancing critical thinking with digital stories in Montessori classrooms - Ann Epstein and Michael Murphy

Paving the way for exceptional students in Montessori education - Kristina Ordetx

Bushrangers, Beaches and Kangaroos: The Reality of the Australian Way of Life - Carol Brands

Critical Literacy:Understanding the Media - Carol Brands

How to Observe, Document, & Prepare for Difficult Conversations with Parents - Cathie Perolman & Andrew Kutt

Founding a Montessori High School Using the International Baccalaureate Middle Years & Diploma Programs: Linking Montessori to the University - Marc Corbeil

Current Montessori research studies - Ann Epstein

Planning and record keeping made easy (or easier) - Cathie Perolman

Last Updated (Friday, 11 November 2011 14:02)

Recordings from 2011 Conference now available

Friday, 11 November 2011 13:34 | Written by Sharon Caldwell

Download order forms for CDs and DVDs of all the presentations at the 2011 Conference.

Montessori Australia Council – Celebrating ten months down – what have we achieved?

Friday, 03 September 2010 14:07 | Written by Eva Nislev

As we reflect on what our affiliation with the International Montessori Council has really meant – we are overwhelmed with how much has been achieved. It has been the most enormous amount of work – but don’t be put off – we are a fussy lot ‘downunder’ and just wanted to get it right from the start! Secondly, we are not procrastinators, so we tend to take on everything!

For those of you who are new to the MAC let us share a little of our journey here. The Montessori Australia Council has grown out of the Montessori Association of Australia after 22 years. Like all organisations and businesses it has had a face-lift – a gorgeous new look, revamp and review. A mandate was given by members to move forward and investigate further our already four year association with the International Montessori Council. For quite a few of us, our relationship and subsequent friendship with the IMC goes back over ten years.

New Links and Resources Posted Daily

Thursday, 02 September 2010 05:58 | Written by Sharon Caldwell

New links are being posted daily for IMC Members. Sharon Caldwell is searching for useful classroom resource links. The urls together with short reviews and suggestions for use will be available when you log in with your unique IMC member username and password. You will be issued a username and password when you renew your IMC membership. We will soon begin uploading new articles to the Member Online Library as well.

This is one of the links we posted today: click here.

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Last Updated (Thursday, 02 September 2010 06:04)

Global Montessori Service Corps

Friday, 20 August 2010 08:00 | Written by Tim Seldin

Attention Montessori Certified Teachers with at least 5 years post certification teaching experience

You can help to nurture the spread of Montessori programs in developing countries!

Kitty Bravo, Chair of the IMC Teacher Education Committee and Director of Education at the Center for Guided Montessori Studies has announced the formation of a new organization designed to provide support and guidance to people in remote and developing countries that are running or starting Montessori schools.

Last Updated (Friday, 11 November 2011 14:10)