From School Leaders
What changes when the work is real.
School leaders on what the Institute gave them — not just what they learned, but what shifted.
Explore Programs“Usually I leave professional development with ideas. I left this with next steps — specific, actionable, grounded in the actual situation I was in. That's rare.”
School Leaders
In their words.
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I've been a head for eleven years. This was the first time someone helped me think about my leadership the way I think about the classroom environment — with the same level of intentionality. I didn’t know I needed that until I experienced it.
Director of a Montessori charter network
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The seminar on difficult conversations gave me a framework I still use every week. Not a script — a way of thinking about what’s actually happening and what the conversation needs to do.
Head of School
Two years in role
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The Leadership Intensive was the first leadership training I’ve done where I didn’t feel talked at. We were working — with real situations, real stakes, people in the room who understood what I was dealing with.
Associate Head
Transitioning to full headship
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I was skeptical that any program could be genuinely Montessori-aligned and genuinely rigorous about organizational leadership. This was both. Hannah doesn’t soften the hard parts.
Head of School
AMI-credentialed
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The Residency changed how I make decisions. Not what decisions I make — how I think through them. That’s a different kind of development than anything I’d done before.
Head of School
Navigating governance crisis
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Our retreat surfaced three things we’d been talking around for two years. We left with commitments we actually kept. That’s not typical for us.
Leadership team
Independent school
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