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.
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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 director, Tasha C. Ring, 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 director 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.
How We’re Exceptional
Beginning in 2016, Meridian Learning became the first to offer online courses for aspiring microschool leaders. Today, our work remains rooted in lived practice through ongoing school operations and mentorship with grassroots leaders. These courses serve as accessible foundations drawn from real-world experience with children, families, and small learning communities. We prioritize sustainability over speed, mentorship over credentials, and relationship-centered learning over packaged programs.