From Top to Bottom, Left to Right: 🇭🇺 Katalin Lovassy, 🇩🇴 Maria Bautista, 🇵🇷 Jinny Gonzales, 🇨🇦 Mary Ling, 🇺🇸 Tierney Dewan-Saperstein, 🇧🇷 Debora Aruajo, 🇩🇴 Clarissa Robyn, 🇨🇳 Xinzhuo Yu, 🇺🇸 Becca McSweeney, 🇮🇳 Madhuri Prasad, 🇪🇸 Andrea Serrano, 🇺🇸 Julia O'Hara, [Pueblo de Cochiti] Dominique Quintana, 🇨🇴 LuzAngelica Schuitt, 🇺🇸 Rynae Lindsey, 🇭🇳 Emely Flores, 🇿🇦 Joelene Draper, and founder, 🇺🇸 Mariana Bissonnette.
PEACE FACILITATION
PEACE FACILITATION
In 2022, we expanded our support of Montessorians around the world with our facilitation program. Each year, The PEACE Program hosts 18 Montessori trained teachers at the 0-3 and/or 3-6 levels to contribute to and support all of our parent and family programs.
65% of PEACE Facilitators in 2022 were Black, Indigenous, or of the Global Majority. Join Our Community & Meet the Team
60 hours of mentoring and coaching has been provided from just 2022 alone!
250 parents and educators registered our first ever PEACE Summit, which features live presentations from the PEACE Team
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.
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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Criteria To be Eligible:
Submission of the PEACE Facilitation Application by the deadline (May 31st)
Be a 0-3 and/or 3-6 Montessori diploma holder by August 31st. Montessori teacher training must be completed by this date for participation this year.
Be committed The PEACE Program’s 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.
Facilitator Application Process
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May 1st: Applications Open
May 31st: Deadline for Applications
June 1-30th: Application Review, Interviews & Selection
July 1st: Facilitator Training, Professional Development & Onboarding begins
Mid-Aug: PEACE Kicks-Off the year with our Virtual Conference
Sept. 1st: Facilitation Begins
The PEACE Program does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, or any other restricting classification in its selection of facilitators.
For any questions about The PEACE Program or the application, feel free to contact The PEACE Program founder at mariana@thepeaceprogram.org
SELECTION PROCESS
HOW IT WORKS
As part of The PEACE Facilitator “swap”, facilitators can opt to contribute their time in different ways. One way is to sit on the PEACE Facilitator Selection Committee after completing at least one year in PEACE Facilitation
By May 1st, The PEACE Program has confirmation of the number of facilitation spots available for the upcoming year (based on the number of returning facilitators).
Mariana Bissonnette receives applications and closes the form by the deadline.
Mariana Bissonnette removes all personal and demographic information from the applications (including candidate names) prior to giving the Selection Committee the applications to review (Mariana is NOT on the Selection Committee).
The PEACE Selection Committee receives “cleaned” candidate applications and rates them on various criteria and core competencies. Committee members also receive a rubric and specific guidance on how to rate these criteria.
Mariana Bissonnette receives the ratings from the Selection Committee and finds the average total ratings for each applicant. The top applicants for the number of spots available are invited to interview (depending on the number of Facilitation spots available).
The PEACE Program then invites top candidates to interview with Mariana Bissonnette.
A final decision is made after the interview.
More About the PEACE Selection Committee
The Selection Committee typically consists of between 4-6 members who all have 0-3 and/or 3-6 Montessori certification. Some are classroom teachers, some are administrators, some are parent-educators, and some are former PEACE facilitators. The PEACE Program aims to have a diverse Selection Committee each year with different lived experiences and different professional backgrounds.
WANT TO JOIN THE TEAM?
We live into our 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 in every aspect of our programming. Learn more about us.