Welcome to Northeast Stars Montessori

Our Mission

The philosophy of Northeast Stars Montessori Learning Center is to create and sustain an optimum Montessori educational environment to enable each child to realize his or her richest potential for learning and to become an independent, self-motivated and contributing member of the world community.

The mission is best accomplished by:

• Providing a curriculum adhering to rigorous Montessori standards, informed by current thinking and research on child development and learning;
• Fostering a love of learning;
• Embracing a diverse student body in which students experience and learn to respect 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; and
• Facilitating the involvement of parents, teachers, students and the larger community.

Northeast Stars begins with a deep respect for children as unique individuals. There is a concern for the development of the whole child - social and emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual. An underlying purpose of a Northeast Stars Montessori Learning Center education is to aid the child in independence and self-formation by creating an environment that can unlock the inherent potentials and intelligences within each child. We embrace the Montessori ped­agogy, which is based on universal principles of child development, as sound theory and practice for teaching and learning. And we look to accepted current research to inform our evolving understanding of human development.

Recognizing the many differences in learning rates and styles, we believe in individualizing each child's school experience for the fullest development of his or her potential. We embrace the concept of a multi-age, 3 year age span classroom community as optimum for academic, social and emotional learning. We believe that the dynamic classroom requires a sufficient gathering of children (24-28 students) to operate effectively. We value cooperation over competition and believe that each child's work and behavior should be evaluated on his or her inherent capacity rather than by comparison.

Northeast Stars is dedicated to quality education. While the school is located at the Purity Baptist Church, the school is nondenominational, nondiscriminatory, and does not provide religious instruction. We are proud that we have always served a diverse population and believe this helps us to provide each child with a rich multi-cultural experience.