Confict to Collaboration Course

Tuesdays Beginning January 13th

The 8-session Conflict to Collaboration course is designed for Montessori educators and school leaders who want to build strong, effective relationships with parents while maintaining professional boundaries and reducing stress. Children thrive when teachers, leaders, and parents collaborate with clarity, consistency, and mutual respect.

Many teachers experience stress from parent-related challenges: demands that feel unrealistic, disrespectful or emotionally charged communication, the time required to maintain frequent updates, and a lack of trust in their professional judgment. These challenges can drain energy, undermine confidence, and interfere with teaching. This course helps educators address these stressors directly by providing practical tools for setting kind but firm limits, establishing strong connections and fostering parent partnerships built on trust and respect.

Most parent–school conflicts can be prevented—or transformed into opportunities—through intentional communication, proactive strategies, and confident, respectful limit-setting.

In this course, participants will learn to:

• Set kind and firm professional limits with parents that establish mutual respect while developing trust and cooperation.  Good boundaries build strong relationships.

• Build strong, supportive relationships with parents that build connection, encourage cooperation and shared goals.

• Handle difficult or emotionally charged interactions calmly, preventing escalation and reducing anxiety for everyone involved .

• Communicate concerns about children effectively while building parent support and professional credibility.

• Turn challenging situations into opportunities to strengthen parent relationships and collaboration.

• Conduct productive parent meetings confidently, ensuring clarity, connection, trust, and shared understanding.

• Develop school-wide strategies that create consistent practices, improve parent partnerships, and reduce stress for teachers and school leaders.

Facilitated By Chip DeLorenzo

When – Tuesdays (and one Thursday)

1. January 13
2. January 15 – Thursday
3. January 20
4. January 27
5. February 3
6. February 10
7. February 17
8. February 24

Times– Class Meets at the Same Time Weekly

• 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST
• 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. CST
• 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. MST
• 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. PST

Platform

The class will be held via Zoom.  Zoom link and materials will be available 1 week before the first class and will be emailed to participants.

Materials

Participants will receive a copy of the workbook, Conflict to Collaboration, and other resources for develop parent communication skills.

Group Discounts 

Groups of 3 or more from the same school will receive a group discount.  Discounts are applied at checkout.  Please contact us if you need more information:  info@chipdelorenzo.com

• 3-5 members – 10%
• 6-10 members – 15%
• 11 -20 members – 20%

Groups over 20 –  please contact Chip directly to inquire about a private cohort.