• Summer Intensives: 8 weeks total, spread over two or three summers (Final summer is always 3 weeks). For more detailed information on our High-Residency program sequence options, click here. 
• Fall Intensive: Thursday through Monday (5 days)

• Digital winter intensive (5 days)
• Practicum Zoom sessions (3 sessions required, offered monthly)
• Two online courses:
  • Montessori Overview, a prerequisite required for anyone who does not already possess a Montessori credential (40 hours)
  • Mindfulness Fundamentals, required in the fall (10 hours)

• Montessori Overview online course (40 hours, fully self-paced)
• Prerequisite readings: 4 books and 9 articles from our website

We recommend securing your required readings for Overview (2 books) before you begin. Find the reading list and pre-training work here. 

Please call after the deadline to see if space is still available. 

This is the start of the orientation for the courses in Cincinnati. 

• Summer Intensives: 3 weeks, spread over two summers (14 days in Summer 1, 8 days in Summer 2)
• Fall Intensive: Thursday through Monday (5 days)

• Semi-weekly practicum Zoom sessions (after Summer 1 school year)
• Regular online coursework. Low-residency participants should budget about 5 hours per week for online coursework, which is typically organized into four-week chunks called Minimesters. After each Minimester comes a one-week break. (Contact us for a more detailed schedule or check out the pacing guides here.) 
• Two prerequisite online courses:
  • Montessori Overview (a fully self-paced course required for anyone who does not already possess a qualifying Montessori credential)
  • Introduction to Secondary Montessori Education (click here for more information) 

• Montessori Overview online course (40 hours, fully self-paced)
• Introduction to Secondary Montessori (30 hours in 6 weeks, aprox. 5 hours/week)
• Admission interview with Katie Keller Wood (rolling, scheduled when application process is initiated)

We also recommend securing your required readings for Overview (2 books) and Minimesters 1-3 (4 books) before you begin. Find your reading list and pre-training work here. 

The application must be completed in full, including the application fee.

After this deadline, please contact us. There are multiple section start dates throughout the year for the same in-person summer training. 

The online coursework begins with Introduction to Secondary Montessori, a prerequisite to the low-residency minimester courses. If you have already taken our Introduction as a stand alone course, please reach out to the CMStep office to let us know.