The Jewish Montessori Society nurtures and grows the network of Jewish Montessori schools worldwide by
- Partnering with Jewish communities seeking to start their own Jewish Montessori schools.
- Through intensive coaching, marketing assistance, public relations and connections to the expanding community of experienced Jewish Montessorians, JMS ensures that no local community has to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch when opening a new JM school.
- Working with new and established Jewish Montessori schools on the unique challenges of marketing, fundraising and student recruitment/retention
- Advising new and established Jewish Montessori schools on the unique challenges of marketing, fundraising and student recruitment and retention.
- Organizing and facilitating live and electronic conversations by and between Jewish Montessori teachers, administrators, trustees and parents on a wide range of topics such as curriculum development, student discipline, marketing, and fundraising.
- Regular webinars on timely topics of interest to Jewish Montessorians, including the integrated curriculum, creative parent education events, and awesome, hands-on Passover projects.
- Regional jewish Montessori conferences at JM schools and customized convenings at major national Jewish gatherings such as the JFNA General Assembly and the North American Jewish Day School Conference.
- Online directory of all Jewish Montessori schools in North America, the first ever of its kind.
- Advocacy and awareness of Jewish Montessori in the larger Jewish world
- Coaching professional and lay leadership in the essentials of “client development” to expand awareness of Jewish Montessori in general and their schools in particular. The JMS regularly meets Jewish parents and educators who attended regular Montessori schools and are astounded to hear that Jewish Montessori schools actually exist.
- Through blogging, mainstream media coverage of Montessori generally, Jewish media and pointed word of mouth strategies, the JMS aspires to make Jewish Montessori as well-known and familiar in the Jewish world as eating matzoh and hearing the shofar.