Stay Just A Little Bit Longer

We know the options some of you are weighing this time of year.  You hear the Siren’s call of public school or you want an option that’s more convenient and requires less driving time.  And the hardest for us to hear is that you want to stay, but you are worried about transition.  If you have to go eventually, you think you might as well go now.  While all of these reasons have their logic, we hope you will consider why you chose MSH in the first place.

Montessori education fosters a love of learning.  Our students are presented with a myriad of lesson options everyday, and they can experience new concepts through all of their senses.  Teachers guide students through learning instead of marching them through a curriculum at a pre-determined pace that may be too fast or too slow for a student’s specific needs.  Lessons here are individualized, and your child is able to realize his/her full potential.

Our program educates your whole child.  While math and reading are at the heart of our learning, our students also are learning how to resolve conflicts, tend a garden, care for a pet, console a friend, understanding where his or her food comes from, managing a grocery budget and so many other lessons that prepare your child for life, not just a multitude of mandated standardized test.

We hope you choose to stay with Montessori because when you look at current trends in education, the latest research really is not all new.  Brain-based learning, the maker movement, inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, motivation theory, the importance of movement, green education, and the list goes on, is inherent in Dr. Maria Montessori’s work.  The common core curriculum does not strike fear in the heart of Montessori teachers because they have been teaching children to look at problems from different perspectives for more than one hundred years.

However, the main reason we think you should stay with MSH just a little bit longer is because we work everyday to ensure that your child becomes a capable, confident, compassionate and creative thinker.  All the teachers and staff are here because they believe so deeply in the need to nurture future leaders of the world.  It is no longer enough to learn for the sake of knowledge.  We are here to teach children to create, reason, problem-solve and most of all, lead.  We hope you will decide in the weeks to come that you would like to stay on the journey with us…just a little bit longer.