Meridian Learning’s online courses support educators, families, and microschool leaders who are navigating the realities of small, relationship-centered learning environments. These self-paced offerings draw from over fifteen years of operating lab schools and mentoring grassroots founders, with an emphasis on practical decision-making, sustainable models, and real-world implementation.
Current Offerings
For Aspiring Edupreneurs and Microschool Leaders
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This three-hour online class includes accounting, marketing and administration tips for aspiring and new teacherpreneurs seeking opportunities to continue teaching while operating their own schools or programs. The class is ideal for those interested in launching or improving home-based preschools, play groups, co-ops, or parenting, tutoring, afterschool, foreign language and adult education programs. Participants will receive information enabling them to establish basic professional practices and streamline processes to ensure smoother operations.
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Interested in starting your own tiny school? This class explores the steps you must take to create a legal and financial foundation for success, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each microschool entity, marketing and funding basics. Participants will leave this course with a list of concrete tasks, including a better understanding of vision, mission and focus.
The Basics of Home-Based Montessori Preschools
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Have you been thinking of opening a home-based Montessori school? Join us for an enlightening look at what the startup experience is like, learn about the basics you’ll need to have in place, and find inspiration that you can do it too! In this one-hour presentation, Meridian Learning principal consultant and director, Tasha C. Ring, M.Ed, discusses the benefits of a home-based setting, the basics of starting a home-based school business, considerations for space and materials, an introduction to marketing, the management and logistics of running a home-based school. By the end of this presentation, you will have the confidence to begin your own journey towards becoming the teacher-owner of a home-based Montessori preschool!
The Basics of Montessori-Based Microschools
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Join Meridian principal consultant and veteran Montessori-based microschool teacher-leader, Tasha C. Ring, in an exploration of the microschool as the most sustainable model for the 21st century and the future of the Montessori private sector. Take a look at how small, locally owned Montessori schools are essential to continue the work of Dr Montessori and find inspiration on your own journey of starting a grassroots microschool.
For Businesses and Organizations
Montessori for Business
This in-person, 60-minute workshop is ideal for businesses and organizations seeking transformative change through the application of Montessori principles. We will explore key principles of the Montessori philosophy and practical exercises which can be applied to business settings.
How We’re Exceptional
Launched in 2016, Meridian Learning was the first to offer online courses for aspiring microschool leaders. Today, our work remains grounded in lived practice through ongoing school operations and mentorship with grassroots leaders. Our courses are designed as accessible foundations, shaped by years of operating grassroots microschools and supporting real children and families. We prioritize sustainability over speed, mentorship over credentials, and relationship-centered learning over packaged programs.