FOR EDUCATORS

The PEACE Team

“THE HIVE”

In 2022, we expanded our support of Montessorians around the world with our facilitation program.

Each year, The PEACE Program hosts Montessori trained teachers at the 0-3 and/or 3-6 levels to contribute to and support our parent and family programs. Facilitators work closely with Mariana Bissonnette, The PEACE Program founder, and share responsibility with all PEACE facilitators and staff for contributing to the communal values of self-reflection, self-care, responsiveness to being/becoming Anti-Bias / Anti-Racist and a deep commitment to the whole child within the whole family. 

“Being able to work with Mariana in The PEACE Program opened up a whole new area of possibility for my work. It has inspired be too look beyond the classroom and address what is lacking in training, like parent education and classroom management. As a new guide, having a mentor during this process has given me so much confidence.”

— Dominique, PEACE Scholar 2022

What Do Facilitators Do?

PEACE Facilitators contribute their time to support our work in parenting education and The PEACE Program contributes coaching and professional development to Facilitators to grow their parenting-education practice. Here are the main contributions:

✨ Be a featured speaker at one of our two annual virtual conferences, the PEACE Summit!

✨ Receive professional coaching on developing workshop presentations

✨ Be an exclusive guest of our podcast, featuring our PEACE Facilitators.

✨ Be in a community of Montessori parent-educators committed to connecting and supporting each other in this work

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PEACE Facilitation

The 24/25 Facilitation Team is full.

Please apply for the 25/26 Facilitation Team* in May 2025.

*Please note, you must have a 0-3 and/or 3-6 Montessori teaching diploma to participate in this team.

Meet the 24/25 Team

Watch the 2025 Summit Replays

  • Amazing session! Really great take-aways I can surely implement! Thank you!

    Syleste

  • Thank you, Mariana, for an extremely practical and insightful presentation. One of my big complaints of Montessori conferences I have attended in the past was the lack of useful tricks, tips, and recipes that can be used in the classroom or home setting.

    Mary

  • You hit this presentation out of the park, providing me and so many others exactly what we have been looking for in a Montessori conference. A million times, thank you!

    Mary

  • I found this really useful. I work alone and would love a space like this as my weekly staff meeting.

    Syleste

  • In Mariana's Masterclass, I really enjoyed hearing her intentions behind the pedagogy and loved that she created it with the idea of child development and actual those with special needs at the forefront.

    Taressa

  • Very insightful and a great refresher on freedoms and limits/self-discipline.

    Helena

  • As someone new to Montessori, the concept of the triad was new to me. It helped me learn that I can step in less.

    Kylie

  • I thoroughly enjoyed learning the woman behind Montessori education and the challenges she faced. I feel very connected to the person vs. the name, finding similarities between her and myself. My biggest takeaway is thinking about obstacles and the impact these have on children's futures.

    Queenie

  • I am just continually grateful for Mariana and the support she provides for parents and our children. She has made the Montessori approach feel possible for our family.

    Tanya

  • Mariana has an incredible amount of expertise that I am sure has helped so many parents get through what is a lonely and difficult period.

    Sheila

  • I am grateful for Mariana and her program's places emphasis on reaching BIPOC families- thank you!

    Hana

  • The PEACE Summit presentation were fantastic. They were all so clear, insightful, and practical. Really excellent conference!

    Shawna

  • I LOVE the examples Mariana gives as they help me connect to the big ideas so easily.

    Shraddha

  • The open-mindedness and compassion that Mariana brings to her work is invaluable.

    Sheila

  • I spent 30 days with Ms. Mariana and I call them 30 days of transformation because this course changed my thinking. Concepts that seemed very familiar in Montessori, under her teaching seem entirely new. I just listened and wrote about 50 pages of notes every time she spoke.

There are five pillars to Mariana’s coaching and support:

  • Developmental context: Mariana is well-researched about child development and always leads with grounding in the child’s development

  • Montessori pedagogy: Mariana has a deep understanding of Montessori theory and has a knack for explaining it in simple, understandable terms.

  • Montessori Curriculum: Mariana is a systems-thinker and has spent many years understanding and sequencing the Montessori materials and classroom in the First Plane of Development (0-6 years).

  • Observation: During Mariana’s 10 years in the classroom, her filled notebook after notebook of observational notes about the children and their activity in the prepared environment.

  • Systems: As someone who likes creating systems that work, Mariana uses a systems approach to support classrooms and schools so that practical advice actually sticks!