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KV Montessori Academy
Eastlake Chula Vista, CA
We invite you to explore KV Montessori Academy and experience for yourself the joy in the eyes of our students and the pride on the faces of our faculty and staff. We offer a Montessori program, for children ages 2-5 that balances the social and emotional growth of the child with the pursuit of academic excellence. Our classrooms are multi-age with a three-year-cycle that truly benefits children's ability to develop at their own pace, while allowing the relationship with the teacher to flourish.
The goal of our program is to guide your children in their development of independence, self-knowledge, academic discovery and an internal desire for life-long learning.
School Director..
As the Head of School of KV Montessori Academy, I have the privilege of leading an amazing community of highly educated Montessori professionals. Our staff is committed to providing the highest level of educational excellence while partnering with parents to establish a long and lasting relationship that focuses on the needs of the child.
KV Montessori Academy has a boutique-style indoor play village designed to give our children the ability to continue using their imagination and creativity in a healthy and fun indoor playground. I look forward to meeting you and having you become a part of our family. Contact us for more information. Norma Chang Head of School
MISSION & VISION
At KV Montessori Academy our mission is to prepare our children with a strong foundation of education that will guide them to grow and flourish with discipline. Under a safe, nurturing and creative environs; children will be inspired creatively, emotionally and active.
Our vision is for our school to be recognized as a positive agent of change that benefits our community now and in the future. Creating and maintaining a reachable, durable and accountable Montessori we will impact individually and collectively each person to foster harmony and respect in our life.
Dr. Maria Montessori
Born on August 31, 1870, in Chiaravalle, Ancona, Maria Montessori broke from the traditional role of women almost right from the start. At the age of 13, she attended an all-boys academy focusing her studies on mathematics and science. Later, she became the first female doctor in Italy. Her career took an unexpected turn when she started working with disabled children. She devised a new method of education when she saw that the methods of the time were not serving the needs of those children.
Her approach to teaching disabled children was completely new. Instead of the traditional methods that included reading and reciting, she taught the children by using concrete materials. She determined that learning was not memorizing but sensing and experiencing. The disabled children scored higher than average children on the same test and she wondered, "Why can't all children benefit from the same method?" So it was that she opened the Casa dei Bambini, or Children’s House, on January 6, 1907, in the slums of Rome to teach the children of tenement dwellers. News of her new method spread through Italy and beyond. In 1915, Maria Montessori traveled to the United States to present lectures and demonstrations about the educational philosophy and methodology that she began. Her son, Mario, was a frequent collaborator and travel partner. Experimental Montessori schools sprang up in the United States over the following years. Her work was overshadowed, however, in the American public schools by John Dewey’s pragmatic approach to education. The Montessori method died away until the late 1950s. Alcuin Montessori School was among the first chartered Montessori schools of this revival, founded in 1961. Today Dr. Montessori is celebrated as an educational pioneer, humanist, feminist and all around inspirational person! Recommended Reading: Interactive timeline of Dr. Montessori's life and work Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work - EM Standing History of Montessori Education Documentary on Maria Montessori
Why a Montessori Education at
KV Montessori Academy
Montessori offers an alternative method of education based on the principle that children want to learn and even teach themselves if the environment is prepared effectively.
We give you:
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All our Teachers are Certified Montessori Guides
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Follow a Curriculum
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Parent Teacher Conferences Twice a Year
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Top of the Line Indoor Playground
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Extended care
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Seasonal Camps
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Open all year long