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Washington Elementary School was honored by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2019, one of nine schools in the state recognized as Exemplary High Performing Schools. [ 6 ] For the 1994-95 school year, Westfield High School was named as a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education , the highest honor that a New Jersey ...
Its programs are based in the fundamental philosophy of Dr. Maria Montessori. It is one of the Montessori schools in New Jersey to serve students ranging up to fifteen years of age. As of the 2009–2010 school year, the school served 235 students, with 105 in pre-school and 129 in its Kindergarten through eighth grade program.
The Arts and Music Center traces its beginnings to 1959 when musicians and arts educators Clare, a German-born refugee and her husband, New Jersey farmer Albert Appel, decided to turn their 176-acre (0.71 km 2) former farm into a day camp, merging their love for their children and their friends with their interest in music. [2]
Hand painting in a Montessori school of Nigeria. Montessori classrooms for children from 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 or 3 to 6 years old are often called Children's Houses, after Montessori's first school, the Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1906. A typical classroom serves 20 to 30 children in mixed-age groups, staffed by a fully trained lead teacher and assistants.
Oct. 25—Kenmont Montessori School in Brownsville celebrated United Nations Day on Thursday with a festival of world cultures honoring the school's namesake, Maria Montessori, and her vision of ...
For the 1994–95 school year, Westfield High School was named as a "Star School" by the New Jersey Department of Education, the highest honor that a New Jersey school can achieve. [ 15 ] The school was the 21st-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on ...
The American Montessori Society (AMS) is a New York City-based, member-supported nonprofit organization which promotes the use of the Montessori teaching approach in private and public schools. AMS advocates for the Montessori method (popularized by Maria Montessori ) throughout the United States, and publishes its own standards and criteria ...
Westfield Friends School (also known as WFS) is a private, coeducational Quaker day school in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, United States, within the Philadelphia metro area. Founded in 1788 and under the care of the Westfield Friends Meeting, it is the oldest Friends school in the United States operated by a meeting .