Mission Statement
Helping children and their families construct their learning, lives and communities.

Values Statement: A Foundation for Peace
Stoneridge Children’s Montessori School is a community of children and adults united by Dr. Maria Montessori’s vision of peace through education. In an atmosphere of freedom and responsibility, we work toward our human potential. We are dedicated to creating a sustainable future for the planet and all who inhabit it. We strive to develop and support the following values:

Work
"A child can only develop by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience work."
Dr. Maria Montessori

• Inspire the joy of learning through discovery and exploration
• Invite curiosity, creativity, and imagination in all areas of work
• Nurture risk taking and initiative
• Experience reverence, awe, wonder, and respect for life

Independence
"Individual activity is the one factor that stimulates and produces development, and this is not more true for the little ones of preschool age than it is for the junior, middle, and upper school children."
Dr. Maria Montessori

• Respect the right to persist in chosen work without interruption
• Respect the right to direct oneself and to act with ever greater sureness, ability, and self confidence
• Speak and write clearly and confidently

Interdependence
"The stars, Earth, stones, all kinds of life form a whole relation with each other, and so close is this relation that we cannot understand a stone without some understanding of the great sun!"
Dr. Maria Montessori

• Be courteous, caring, and respectful of others
• Use peaceful and cooperative skills to resolve conflict
• Acknowledge and celebrate the different ways humans meet the same physical and spiritual needs
• Respect the cycles of the Earth and recognize our ecological and moral responsibility to the world