Montessori Schools of Connecticut

Annual Professional Development Conference 2026

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Keynote Speaker

Chip DeLorenzo, M.Ed.

Chip DeLorenzo has been a Montessori educator since 1995.  Chip is the co-author, with Jane Nelsen, of Positive Discipline in the Montessori Classroom.  As a teacher trainer and school consultant, Chip has worked with thousands of Montessori teachers and parents in teaching the principles and practices of Positive Discipline through various workshops and lectures. He is the former Head of School of the Damariscotta Montessori School, where he spent 20 years as a school leader and teacher.  Chip holds Early Childhood, Lower and Upper Elementary AMS certifications, and has worked extensively with Montessori Adolescent students. He is the father of five Montessori children, and he and his wife, Kathy, live in Loveland, Ohio.

"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 –