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About the Nonprofit

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Children’s Workshop Montessori (CW), a non-profit school serving children ages 8 weeks to kindergarten.

Our Mission is to Prepare Children for Life.

We celebrate each child’s individuality and help them discover how they can best contribute to our world and culture. All children are naturally curious and love to learn; we support this innate drive by providing environments that meet children’s developmental needs, guided by a staff of loving and well-prepared adults and building a community of families that actively support our mission.

 

Dr. Maria Montessori’s call was to educate for peace and her mandate is as relevant today as ever. Children’s Workshop Montessori school was founded on this belief and expands the definition of peace to include justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We do our best to not take things personally and vow to take care of our own feelings, which may include seeking support from an appropriate person. We see the interconnection of all things and believe all individuals must put forth effort to build greater compassion, peace, and justice. We encourage the respect of all living things, giving back to the community, and the cultivation of harmony, honesty, social cooperation, compassion, generosity, and love. We also believe in teaching about different cultures and their beliefs, emphasizing the deep respect for diversity.

 
To achieve a true education for peace, justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, Children’s Workshop Montessori commits to the values and practices that allow us to be fully welcoming of all.

We commit to:
Evaluating and expanding our mindsets (and those in our care)
Embracing productive discomfort
Transforming our core values from words to policies and actions that improve equity and promote inclusion

All of this is to teach human acceptance and create more equitable systems that honor each person’s unique mix of overlapping identities, including, but not limited to:

 Age

   Disability/Special Needs

   Gender

   Language

   Mental Health

   Race

 
  Beliefs/Religion

   Ethnicity

   Gender Expression/Identity

   Immigration Status

   National Origin

   Sexual Orientation

 
  Class

   Family Status

   Height/Weight

   Issues specific to women/girls

   Poverty

 
Our goal is to provide a safe, caring, kind, diverse, and inclusive environment for our staff and children entrusted in our care.