Curriculum

On an admissions tour or a parent observation appointment, you can see the children freely choosing the day’s work in the classrooms at Mountaintop. What’s harder to see are the systems at work in the classrooms to ensure students’ progress through the curriculum.

Faculty members giving lessons are the most readily observable part of that system. Their ongoing, behind-the-scenes cycle of planning, recordkeeping and assessment is just as important but more difficult to discern. Montessori education is a process that plays out within a strong, complex and flexible system. Getting to know it well takes time. So we provide a variety of means by which you can access extensive information about the content of our curriculum and the practices faculty members use to guide and document students’ growth and learning.

We share articles covering specific topics with enrolled families in print and electronically. Faculty demonstrate lessons and answer your questions at our education events for parents and educators. Sections of our curriculum documentation are published in conjunction with those events as well as at other times. And from this page you can access the most recent edition of our comprehensive curriculum document.