Who We Are
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Austin Montessori School is a private school for children and adolescents from 16 months to 15 years of age, and the oldest Montessori school in Austin, Texas.
Our mission is to guide the development of each child towards their full and unknown potential. We cultivate compassion and respect, independence and belonging, and freedom and self-discipline, in rich academic and social environments that honor the complementary needs of the individual and the community. We provide an educational setting that is inclusive, recognizes the authentic nature of the child, and nurtures a reverence for the natural order of the universe.
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Early Childhood
Austin Montessori School's Early Childhood programs for children aged 16 months - 6 years old offer full and half-day options, five days a week. Our all-year programs are in session during spring break and through the summer. -
Elementary
The Montessori elementary curriculum is designed as an integrated whole serving the needs of children from 6 - 12 years old. We also offer after-school care, and enrichment programs during spring break and the summer. -
Adolescent
Austin Montessori School’s Center for Work and Study at Gaines Creek is a unique educational environment for students aged 12 - 15 years old following Dr. Maria Montessori's vision. We are the only Montessori Adolescent Program in Austin.
Fast Facts
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58
Years delivering high fidelity Montessori pedagogy -
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Children and Adolescents Currently Enrolled -
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Dedicated Faculty, Pedagogical Support and Administrative Staff -
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Educators Trained by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) -
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Classroom Communities, Ages 16 Months - 15 Years -
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Early Childhood Programs, 4 Year Round -
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Weeks Elementary Summer Enrichment Programs
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Elizabeth & Campbell
"Our experience at Austin Montessori School has been extraordinary and life-changing. We have observed and participated in our daughter’s course of development and education across twelve years and alongside a compassionate and supportive school community. Our daughter began her Montessori education in the Children’s House and blossomed into a responsible, empathetic, and skilled individual in the Adolescent Community. We are happy that our daughter’s learning experience at Austin Montessori School includes practical work, local, regional, and international travel, creative expression, occupations, and strong adult and peer relationships. We believe her experience truly exemplifies education for peace."
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Shayna
"My son attended Austin Montessori from the Children's House all the way through full-cycle in the adolescent community. I believe Austin Montessori supported him in fully becoming himself - a tremendous gift in a world that seems to push us to become what it wants instead. He has grown into a mature, considerate, thoughtful, playful, curious, collaborative, intrinsically driven young man who is now excelling in advanced classes at a college prep high school (St. Andrews Episcopal). The grounding he received at AMS and the experience of belonging and contributing to a community have helped him succeed beyond AMS. I am so grateful he was given the freedom, encouragement, and support to be his fullest self, and I will always be thankful for the incredible teachers and staff at AMS. I wish every child got this care."
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Sean & Zahra
"When searching for a school for our older son, who is now eight years old, we must have visited a dozen schools across town and observed what was taking place in the classroom. We felt that Austin Montessori integrated independence and structure in such a beautiful way that was unmatched elsewhere. ... As they began transitioning from the Children's House to Early Elementary, we visited other schools with strong reputations to see if there might be something there that we were missing. We saw a one-size-fits-all approach that contrasted with the Montessori approach, where each child is learning because they are met where they are and progressing at a pace that is appropriate to their needs."
Of Interest In Our Community
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Construction Ahead!
Read MoreSelf-Construction through Conceptual Education
As many of you know, Montessori education begins early in childhood when children start exploring the world around them with hands-on, conceptual materials. This is true for tasks as simple as buttoning a shirt and as complex as exploring a mathematical relationship. The conceptual curriculum builds on itself with more advanced work on the materials as the child develops (mainly on their own) materialized abstractions of concepts and relationships.For example, the binomial and trinomial cubes are mathematical materials that exist in the classroom for all levels of Montessori. In the Primary classroom, these are sensorial materials and an exercise in shape, proportionality, dimension, area, and volume. The children reassemble the cubes and/or rectangular prisms based on matching faces of the smaller cubes and/or rectangular prisms with like-color faces. Through doing this (first in the box and then free-standing), they have internalized a three-dimensional impression (a model in the mind, if you will) of all the concepts mentioned previously. -
Instead of Praise: A List of Ideas for Acknowledgements and Specific, Detailed Descriptions
Read MoreTHE NATURE OF THE CHILDWe recognize that from conception our children are driven from within to self-develop and self-educate. Our role is to provide the environment and the relationship within which they can do so. We take care not to interfere with their intrinsic motivation. We avoid replacing their own inner satisfaction and their own pleasure in accomplishments with the lure of external motivations and adult praise. We support our children to continue to honor their own internal motives and set their own personal standards high. -
Why Stay For The Full-Cycle ("Kindergarten") Year In The Children's House?
Read MoreEvery year, I receive questions from parents regarding the benefits of their children staying in the Children's House for their Full Cycle or "kindergarten" year. I encourage these parents to think about the time children aged two and a half through 6+ years of age spend in Children's House and consider how their experience comes to fruition during their Full Cycle Year.
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Coffee with Nadine (Sunset Trail)
This conversation will benefit those who already have a child in the Elementary program at Austin Montessori School as well as parents of younger children who are still contemplating whether staying in Montessori through the Elementary years is the right fit for their family.Sunset Trail Clubhouse, 5006 Sunset Trail
How Can We Help
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Connect With Us
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Tell Me More
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Attend An Event
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Visit One of Our Three Campuses
We look forward to welcoming you to Austin Montessori School, an independent school situated on three beautiful campuses, all within 10 miles of the capitol in Austin, Texas.
Austin Montessori School
Austin Montessori School is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex or gender, disability, or age in providing educational services, activities, and programs. Austin Montessori School complies with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA"), as amended, which incorporates and expands upon the requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended; and any other legally-protected classification or status protected by applicable law.
