Durango Montessori was founded in 2005, our School’s mission is to provide an education center for children in grades preschool through fifth grade according to the principles and philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori. It is the adopted belief of Durango Montessori School that appropriate education received at these ages is the most valuable education in the whole of a lifetime, and Durango Montessori Inc. intends to provide each child with warm, nurturing, didactically prepared environments supervised and maintained by teachers trained in the Montessori Method and consistent with Montessori philosophy. Durango Montessori Inc.’s goal is to promote emotional, social, and intellectual development in order to meet the needs of the whole child.

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When you enter a Montessori classroom, you know that something different is afoot: you see children working independently and in groups, often with specially designed learning materials. They’re deeply engaged in their work and respectful of themselves and their surroundings. The Montessori Method fosters rigorous, self-motivated growth for children and adolescents in all areas of their development—cognitive, emotional, social, and physical.

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For more than a century now, the child-focused approach that Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician, developed for educating children has been transforming schools around the globe.

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Montessori education takes into account the nature of the child. Through scientific observations, Maria Montessori discovered universal traits all children possess.  For the past 100 years, children worldwide have benefited from Montessori education.  Maria developed teaching techniques and materials to entice the child to explore his/her world. These techniques are based on how children acquire knowledge complementing the child’s inherent desire to learn.