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In addition to our staff and building, our curriculum represents an exceptionally effective, time-tested, and enjoyable format within which our students excel academically, mature socially, and learn to love school. 

Our primary goals are to create students who love coming to school, believe that they are smart and capable learners, and have fun as the learning process reinforces itself.  This exclusive curriculum is based upon the time-honored principles of Maria Montessori’s theories of development. 

While we subscribe to the concepts of experiential learning, self-correction in our activities, and student-initiated learning, we also understand the limits of very traditional or “strict” Montessori programs.  It would certainly be simpler to apply a formal Montessori program, whose guidelines are well-established and whose activities are formally presented, but as with many “simple” solutions, something is lost.

Our curriculum expands the Montessori theories into the 21st Century with thoughtful and effective modifications.  Our students are encouraged to socialize and cooperate in the classrooms, unlike the antiquated “seen and not heard” approach of many Montessori programs.  Our rooms are full of color, sound and light, just like the real world and the classrooms these children will eventually enter.  We include computers in every classroom, along with other more modern teaching tools which would never be introduced in a strict Montessori.  We also have our own exclusive assessment program which allows us to intimately track the progress of each student along the course of his development.  This comprehensive assessment is used to predict kindergarten readiness as early as 2 ½ years old, and affords parents a fantastic opportunity to quantify their child’s progress.  We take our role as educators of young children incredibly seriously, so that the children may just have fun while they learn in our specialized program.

Our program seeks to capitalize upon the time we have with our students to increase socialization skills, and academic readiness for school.  The curriculum has been thoughtfully developed by the founder of our school to accelerate our students’ development while making learning a fun and self-reinforcing project.  Our physical space was designed with all of the latest in supervisory technology, as well as durable, contemporary materials, with the curriculum requirements in mind.  No other program is as supremely staffed, and effectively managed for the welfare of our students, and no other facility can match our building.

We are proud of our school and the wonderful students whom we enjoy teaching every day.  We are sure that no other program can compare to our level of interest and expertise in educating young students.

 

Canterbury Preparatory School
-Overland Park

Canterbury Academy
At Shawnee Crossings
-Shawnee

Canterbury Infant Academy
-Shawnee

Canterbury Academy
At Prairie Ridge
- Olathe

Canterbury Academy
At Briarcliff
- Kansas City North


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