• Montessori Overview online course started, required for those who do not already posses a Montessori credential (40 hours, fully self-paced, requires two books)
• Secure required readings: 4 books
• Admission interview with Katie Keller Wood (rolling)

• Intro to Secondary: June 14-July 25 (30 hours, 6 weeks)
• Minimester 1: August 2-29 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Minimester 2: September 6 – October 3 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Minimester 3: October 11- November 7 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Mindfulness Minimester: December 6-19 (10 hours, 2 weeks)

• One meeting per month will be an hour-long CMStep Community Meeting, where you may bring any questions/ideas/concerns to the “hive mind” and find support and renewal.
• One meeting per month will be 90 minutes of prepared content, for which you can earn professional development credit, with topics announced in advance.

Summer 1

• In person residency in Cincinnati: Tentatively Sunday, July 4- Saturday, July 17, 2021
  •  (14 days; room and board not included except Sunday evening July 12-Wednesday afternoon July 15)
• Online 5-day residency 1 follow-up (20 hours) Choose one: July 19-23 OR July 26-30

• Minimester 4: September 5 – October 2, 2021 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Minimester 5: October 10 – November 6, 2021 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• In person fall intensive in Cincinnati: Tentatively November 18-22, 2021 (5 days; room and board included)
• Minimester 6 (Mindfulness Minimester) December 5-18, 2021 (10 hours, 2 weeks- OPTIONAL refresher)

• Minimester 7: January 2-29, 2022 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Minimester 8: February 6-March 5, 2022 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Minimester 9: March 13 – April 9, 2022 (20 hours, 4 weeks)
• Minimester 10: April 17 – May 14, 2022

• In person residency in Cincinnati: 8 days (not yet confirmed, but will be July 2022)
• Online 5 day summer residency follow-up (20 hours) Choose one of the two weeks immediately
  following the summer residency (July 2022)

Prerequisite courses (Intro to Secondary Montessori and Montessori Overview) can also be taken for
stand-alone PD credit! Click here to learn more or sign up for these stand-alone courses. And don’t worry! If you
take a prerequisite course now and then choose to enroll for 2020 or 2021, the amount paid for your PD courses
will be deducted from your total CMStep tuition bill.