Greetings Montessori Families!

If you are a returning family, welcome back! If you are joining us for the first time this year, welcome to the Montessori community! We are looking forward to a wonderful school year, and can’t wait to see all of our students back in their classrooms. 

Here at JPS Montessori, we are proud to offer students an educational environment that promotes individualized learning, respects working at your own pace, nurtures children’s innate desire to learn new things, and fosters a lifelong love of learning. Our academic curriculum aligns with Michigan state standards and frameworks, with an additional emphasis on social-emotional learning and 21st century skills. We strongly believe in the Montessori principle of educating the whole child.

At the school, learning is an exciting process of discovery that leads to self-discipline, concentration, and intrinsic motivation. In the classroom there is constant interaction, problem solving, peer teaching, and socialization. Children are challenged according to their ability, and are never bored. Our students look forward to coming to school each day!

We have three new teachers at the school this year: Amy Johnson in kindergarten, Jessica Mullins in fourth grade, and Pamela Hall in 5th grade. We are thrilled to have them join our Montessori family, and they are very excited to be here and get started!

In addition, we also have a PE teacher, Ken Robinson, and a STEAM teacher, Aleta Damm, joining us. They will be working jointly with us and John R. Lewis Elementary, and we very much look forward to adding their classes to the children’s schedule. Students will attend either PE or STEAM daily, in addition to their daily Spanish enrichment with Rocio Baird. This, along with their Montessori work in the classrooms, will provide our students with a rich, full, and varied learning experience this year that will ensure that they reach their fullest potential. 

We here at JPS Montessori are eagerly looking forward to the first day of school, and working with all of our amazing students again! We are thankful for all our Montessori families, and know that this is going to be a great school year!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call the school at 517-841-3897, or you can call me directly at 517-841-2772.

We’ll see you soon!

Rob Campbell

Principal