Our Mission
Red Maple Montessori’s mission is to create and sustain an optimum Montessori educational environment to enable all children to realize their richest potential for learning and to become independent, self-motivated and contributing members of the world community. This is best accomplished by:
- Providing an environment in which curiosity and the joy of discovery and understanding motivates learning.
- Providing an atmosphere which frees the child’s potential for self-development.
- Helping the child discover the joys of intellectual and artistic endeavors, and to grow through activities that stimulate and fulfill individual abilities.
- Embracing a diverse student body in which students experience and learn to respect racial, ethnic, cultural, economic and other differences and to seek and identify common ground.
- Recognizing that personal growth involves responsibility toward others and toward the earth
- Facilitating the involvement of parents, teachers, students and the larger community.
Our Values
Our Core Values
The core values at the heart of our community provide the best environment for students to develop skills in critical thinking, civic engagement and creative problem solving.
Nurturing Independence
Our classrooms are thoughtfully designed to meet our students’ developmental needs and support and nurture their natural curiosity for learning. By guiding rather than mandating the learning process, we encourage the natural development of the student’s independence, self-direction and self-motivation.
Inspiring Empathetic Leadership
Our classroom communities provide the perfect setting for students to explore and fulfill their need for social order. They are free to be a follower at some times and a leader at others. Our curriculum, together with lessons in “Grace and Courtesy,” give our students the vocabulary and self-awareness to recognize and regulate their feelings, the ability to feel empathy for others, and the strategies and tools for managing conflict. They understand that they have a shared responsibility for the group’s well being.