Why Milwaukee Montessori School?
Why Milwaukee Montessori School?
Choosing a private school is about choosing the quality of your child’s daily life, the richness of their experience, and having confidence that your child’s teachers will attend to the full mosaic of their interests and needs, both emotional and intellectual.
Choose Milwaukee Montessori School to ensure that you are raising a well-rounded child, set up for success and happiness in their academic and social life.
As a mastery-based school with small-group lessons given by exceptionally well-trained, caring teachers, we are unique. Our teachers understand that no one exercise works for all students at the same time, and implement the practice of mastery learning, which enables each student to work on an exercise, lesson, or assignment that best fits their individual needs. The result is that most MMS students are high performing academically and well-rounded socially and emotionally.
Academic Challenge
MMS is the perfect environment for the child who loves to learn. Our mastery-based curriculum and multi-age classrooms are designed to remove artificial limitations on a child’s progress, allowing them to work at their own pace - pushing ahead in areas of strength without having to “wait for the rest of the class,” while always demonstrating mastery of material before moving on to new skills. Students who are driven to learn and who love working independently will find their place here.
Functional, Social, and Emotional Focus
Along with academic discovery and rigor, MMS students are immersed in joyful experiences and high-quality instruction in athletics, technology, foreign language, studio arts, environmental stewardship, and music programs. We believe that a well-educated child is a well-rounded child, and our students participate in a host of extra-curricular activities.
Fostering Growth
At MMS we focus on a growth mindset, helping your child to develop a solid work ethic, good work stamina, greater frustration tolerance, and emotional and social growth through being a dependable friend and good team member. A smaller school means every child is known and cared for within the community.
40 Hours of Schooling
per Week
The number of hours in our school day gives students time to master concepts and skills without hurry, while also enjoying daily recess, as well as art, music, Spanish, and physical education several times a week. Most local public schools have an average of 34 hours of schooling per week, rushing their students to meet their curriculum requirements, and in some cases, eliminating arts or athletics to meet that end.
True Student Agency
When we speak of Student Agency, we mean that students are learning through activities that are meaningful and relevant, driven by their interests, and often self-initiated with appropriate guidance from teachers. To put it simply, student agency gives students a voice in how they learn. MMS students have the opportunity to be active drivers of their own education and as a result, love coming to school every day!