Bay Area Montessori Association (BAMA)

Our Mission

The Bay Area Montessori Association (BAMA) is a non-profit, volunteer professional organization dedicated to supporting all Montessorians in the greater Bay Area by providing educational programs, outreach and social activities.

BAMA hosts workshops and activities throughout the school year featuring local professionals and exceptional speakers from the Montessori and educational community. Attendance to these workshops is FREE with a BAMA membership! Individual membership is only $35 a year. School and group membership discounts are also available. Register online for a BAMA membership.

Our Values

- Maria Montessori's vision of the education of the young child
- BAMA values providing opportunities to link people and resources together
- Professional growth and development for all of its members
- Supporting all levels of Montessori Educators
- Inclusiveness and seeks commonality among various Montessori professional organizations and communities

"When we speak of education we are proclaiming a revolution, one in which everything we know today will be transformed. I think of this revolution as the final revolution; not a revolution of violence, but one from which violence is wholly excluded. What has to be defended is the construction of human normality... This then is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim... This is the bright new hope for mankind."

- Montessori Disarmament in Education July 1950