About Us

History

Montessori Day Schools was founded as a private school in the summer of 1981 and held its first summer session on the back porch of Peg Huffman, MDS' Executive Director. Its mission was to make quality Montessori education available and affordable for every child. This meant offering Montessori education along with full day care - staffed by Montessori professionals - at day care pricing: a unique concept at the time and one which continues to be financially challenging.

With the advent of Arizona charter law in 1995, and the subsequent creation of Montessori Day Public Schools Chartered (MDPS), tuition-free Montessori education became an option for families. The Charter School continues to grow, with parent demand for program expansion into the upper elementary and middle school levels at all campuses.

Philosophy

At Montessori Day Schools the school and the family are partners in support of the child’s unique gifts and interests. We all grow together.

We uphold Dr. Maria Montessori’s principles and practices, based on education as “a harmonious growth of all potentialities of the child, mental and physical, according to the laws of its being…” (Montessori, 1945)

Mission Statement

Montessori Day Schools is committed to the development of the whole child by implementing curriculum and methodology based on the Montessori philosophy of education and human development, and by partnering with parents – children’s first teachers – in this endeavor.
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