Our Story
The Lansdale Montessori School was founded in 1993 by current director Michelle Santacroce and her mother Dorothy Kelly. Michelle came to love Montessori education through the experience of her two young sons at Learning Tree Montessori (then occupying the current LMS facility at St. John's UCC). Over the subsequent three decades the school grew to its current size of four classrooms, and expanded to include before- and after-school care. Most importantly, the school has nurtured a generation of young children, providing them with a true "foundation for life."
Mission
Our mission is to provide an environment which helps children to develop within themselves the foundation for success, not just in school, but in life. We seek to provide experiences which foster each child’s natural curiosity and love of learning, promoting the development of qualities such as independence, creativity, concentration, self-confidence, self-discipline, persistence, initiative, and a sense of order.
Vision
Our children experience the excitement of learning through freely chosen, hands-on activities. Materials designed to be self-correcting give them a sense of discovery, as they achieve mastery through repetition. Our classrooms are organized in a natural progression from simple to complex, and from concrete to abstract, with lessons and materials building upon each other. Each child is able to move through that progression at their own pace.
