Montessori Schools of Connecticut

Annual Professional Development Conference

More information coming soon! 

 


 

 Preparing the Adult Montessorian: 

What's in Your Toolkit?

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Slade


Friday, October 31, 2025

8:00 - 2:30 pm

 


 


 

Keynote Speaker

Elizabeth G. Slade is an author and educator with thirty-eight years of experience working in Montessori education. She has worked as an elementary teacher, Montessori coach and administrator, and spent six years at the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector working with public Montessori schools across the country. She now serves as the Executive Director of Public Montessori in Action International, an organization created to ensure fully implemented Montessori education for children, families, and educators of the global majority. Her book Montessori in Action: Building Resilient Montessori Schools was released in July 2021, and her historical fiction novel Momentum: Montessori, a Life in Motion was released in August 2023. Finding Ground: Building Strong Elementary Practice,  co-written with Allison Jones is coming out in 2025. Elizabeth holds an AMI Elementary diploma, an AMS Montessori Administrators credential, and an MFA from Spalding University.

 

"The adult’s idea that freedom consists in minimizing duties and obligations must be rejected…The freedom that is given to the child is not liberation from parents and teachers; it is not freedom from the laws of Nature or of the state or of society; but the utmost freedom for self-development and self-realization compatible with service to society."

 

– Maria Montessori –