The Montessori Five-Tool Problem: A Benchmark of Montessori School Operations

​No Montessori school set out to run on five systems. Each one arrived the same way, one reasonable decision at a time: a record book for the classroom, a billing tool for tuition, an app for families, and a spreadsheet for whatever the others couldn't hold.

​The subscriptions are the only cost that appears on an invoice. The rest is paid in hours: tuition rebuilt by hand, family details entered twice, forms chased, and a head of school who is also the biller, the admissions office and the trainer.

​Join Tim Seldin, President of The Montessori Foundation, hosted by Anna Leichter of illumine, for the third edition of The Montessori Leadership Series, a live leadership discussion on the work that keeps a Montessori school running:

​• Where the work goes when a school runs on separate systems
• What it costs the team, the families and the leader
• What connected operations look like, and how schools make the move without disrupting the year

​The conversation draws on illumine's new report, built from conversations with Montessori schools and published in collaboration with The Montessori Foundation.

​Everyone who attends receives a Professional Development Certificate and exclusive early access to the report, before it is released publicly. Everyone who registers receives the recording.

​Wednesday, 18 November 2026 1:00 PM ET | 10:00 AM PT