Montessori School Of University Hts

Specialties

The Montessori School of University Heights is a pre-​primary school dedicated to helping the child become the unique person his/​her Creator intended. This is achieved according to the principles developed by Dr. Maria Montessori in a Christian atmosphere of peace, love, and respect. We provide a prepared environment designed according to the young child’s needs where each child is free to develop physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially, and spiritually in a non-​competitive atmosphere that allows the child to develop according to each child’s own capacities and at his/​her own rate. The freedom afforded each child to choose activities that correspond to each one’s individual needs and interests fosters joy in learning and starts the child on the path to becoming a life-​long learner. The child gradually develops inner discipline, a sense of self-​worth, and a sense of service and respect for others and the world.

«The most important age of life is not the age of university studies but the first one, the period of birth to age six. For that is the time when man’s intelligence itself, his greatest implement is being formed.» (Dr. Maria Montessori, «The Absorbent Mind»)

History

Established in 1968.

The Montessori School of University Heights was initially housed in an empty building in the Cleveland Heights/​University Heights school system. The next year the school moved to the First Baptist Church on Fairmount Boulevard in Shaker Heights where it remained for thirty years. The school moved to its current location in leased space at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Cedar Road in Lyndhurst.

Meet the Manager

Maria W.

Manager

Maria W. is the Lead Montessori Guide and administrator of the program. She is a graduate of Fontbonne College (St. Louis, MO) and of the Columbus Montessori Teacher Education Program, where she also served as an instructor of adults. She is a member of the American Montessori Society and the Association for the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. She has forty years of experience working with children in a variety of settings including two schools for the hearing impaired, a local Catholic elementary school, and this Montessori school.