Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.

There are private education options provided by the Montessori School of Celebration ( K-8 ).

Brin attended grade school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home ; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, encouraged him to learn mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills.

* The Ojai Valley is also home to: the Montessori School of Ojai, a private day school, Laurel Springs School, which specializes in distance education and home-schooling, and Global Village School, a progressive K – 12 homeschooling program.

Private education in Georgetown and Scott County includes St. John elementary and middle school, Providence Christian Academy elementary and middle school, and Keystone Montessori elementary school.

Quincy is home to various educational institutions, public and private, including one early childhood education center, one Montessori school, one Catholic schools, one college preparatory school, one college of liberal arts and sciences ( Eastern Nazarene College ), one community college ( Quincy College ), two public high schools, five public middle schools, and 12 public elementary schools.

Naudian Academy is a Montessori education program for children from preschool to kindergarten, located near Kresson Elementary School.

Sanford is also home to a non-public Montessori school, The Montessori School of Sanford, which provides education from pre-school through fifth grade.

Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori.

Montessori education is practiced in an estimated 20, 000 schools worldwide, serving children from birth to eighteen years old.

Montessori education spread to the United States in 1911 and became widely known in education and popular publications.

However, conflict between Montessori and the American educational establishment, and especially the publication in 1914 of a critical booklet, The Montessori System Examined by influential education teacher William Heard Kilpatrick, limited the spread of her ideas, and they languished after 1914.

Montessori education returned to the United States in 1960 and has since spread to thousands of schools there.

Montessori education is fundamentally a model of human development, and an educational approach based on that model.

In the Montessori approach, these human tendencies are seen as driving behavior in every stage of development, and education should respond to and facilitate their expression.

In Montessori education, the classroom environment responds to these periods by making appropriate materials and activities available while the periods are active in the young child.

She envisioned young adults prepared by their experiences in Montessori education at the lower levels ready to fully embrace the study of culture and the sciences in order to influence and lead civilization.

As Montessori developed her theory and practice, she came to believe that education had a role to play in the development of world peace.

Montessori used the term " cosmic education " to indicate both the universal scope of lessons to be presented, and the idea that education in the second plane should help the child realize the human role in the interdependent functioning of the universe.

This was initiated by M. Montessori and is still utilized in Montessori schools.

This is a lesson from both Montessori and Dewey.

In addition to these institutions, there is also an intermediate-level vocational school ( ROC Nijmegen ) and a number of secondary schools: Groenschool Nijmegen, Kandinsky College, Nijmeegse Scholengemeenschap Groenewoud ( NSG ), Citadel College, Stedelijke Scholengemeenschap Nijmegen ( SSGN ), Canisius College, St. Jorisschool, Lindenholt College, the Stedelijk Gymnasium ( formally the " Latijnse school ", founded in the 16th century ), the Karel de Grote College, Montessori College and the Dominicus College.

* Southernside Montessori School, a school under the Montessori curriculum that is located in Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Saint Anthony Catholic School is a parochial school for grades K-8 ( with a 3 & 4 year old Montessori Program ).

Geist Montessori Academy, tuition free, Indiana public charter schools is located in McCordsville The Indiana public school system that serves the town, is Mt.

There is one private school in the town, Montessori School of the Angels which serves grades 1-8, located in the Westport Factory neighborhood.

Tisbury is also the home of the Vineyard Montessori School, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through third grade.

Beverly is home to several private schools, including St. Mary School, Harborlight Montessori School, Kindercare Learning Center, Beverly School for the Deaf, St. John the Evangelist School, the Bright Horizons School, the Waring School, Glen Urquhart School, Stoneridge Montessori School, and Shore Country Day, which is known for being a top private school for upper class children K-8 and several others.

The Adams Montessori School is open for children of preschool through elementary school age

In addition, Waldwick is home of the Waldwick Seventh-day Adventist School ; The Village School, a Montessori school for toddlers through 8th grade ; and The Forum School, a facility for developmentally disabled youngsters.

Montessori Academy of New Jersey is private school located in Delran Township, and is one of only three AMI-certified Montessori method schools in New Jersey.

The Westminster Nursery School is located at the corner of Plainfield Avenue and Mountain Avenue, the Union Village Nursery is located bordering Warren Township at the corner of Mountain Avenue and Hillcrest Road, and the Diamond Hill Montessori is located along Diamond Hill Road opposite McMane Avenue.

Montessori characterized the third plane by the physical changes of puberty and adolescence, but also psychological changes.

) A comprehensive international list of psychologists on stamps ( compiled by psychology historian Ludy T. Benjamin ) indicates that Gilbreth was only the second female psychologist commemorated by a postage stamp in all the world, preceded only by Maria Montessori in India in 1970.

Sensitive periods is a term coined by the Dutch geneticist Hugo de Vries and adopted by the Italian educator Maria Montessori to refer to important periods of childhood development.

Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish ( 1876 – 1956 ), who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy, and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years.

They are often run by city or town administrations, churches, or registered societies, many of which follow a certain educational approach as represented, e. g., by Montessori or Reggio Emilia or " Berliner Bildungsprogramm ", etc.

Much of the Montessori Method is based on foundations laid by Wilbur and Sequin in Syracuse.

Sister Maureen Murphy, a thirty-six year old Montessori teacher, was found bleeding in her room by the other sisters of the convent when she did not come down for meals.

The Webster Montessori School ( elementary ) is just south of the town line in Penfield, yet served by the Webster school district.

* Specialized educational materials developed by Montessori and her collaborators

In addition, many Montessori schools design their programs with reference to Montessori ’ s model of human development from her published works, and use pedagogy, lessons, and materials introduced in teacher training derived from courses presented by Montessori during her lifetime.