Welcome to Shaw Montessori, where our mission is to provide a solid academic foundation employing the philosophy of Maria Montessori within a respectful, loving, and supportive community. Shaw Montessori's vision is to educate the human potential.
From modest beginnings in 1993, Phoenix Elementary School District #1’s Montessori school has grown, to be a thriving community of children, parents, faculty, and staff. Augustus H. Shaw Jr. Montessori Elementary School provides an integrated, inclusive, highly personalized educational environment for children from 36 months to 14 years old. Individual classes are specially designed to meet the developmental needs of the age range they serve.
School Goals
- Through Cosmic Education we give the child a vision of the whole universe.
- All children experience maximum learning potentials or windows of optimum learning at various times. We observe and provide those opportunities.
- The child’s hand is his teacher—experiential learning is essential to internalization.
- All children are motivated to learn, and multiple and divergent intelligences are honored and recognized here.
- The dignity of labor and purposeful movement is vital and encouraged.
Awards and Recognitions
- Association Montessori Internationale Primary Affiliation
- Association Montessori Internationale Teachers
- American Montessori Society Teachers
