Great Teachers Do This!
July 14, 2025

Great teachers do more than simply follow a curriculum or provide care; they create an environment that fosters love for learning and exploration. At Wheaton Montessori School, our exceptional teachers are internationally certified professionals, holding master's degrees and possessing over 20 years of experience. They nurture each child's unique journey, supporting their discovery and passion for lifelong learning.


Wheaton Montessori School teachers:


  • Nurture Well-Rounded Individuals
    Go beyond the basics to develop essential skills for real life—complex reasoning, creativity, citizenship, and communication.


  • Teach Beyond the Basics
    Foundational skills are important, as are critical thinking, creativity, leadership, and adaptability. 


  • Make it Unforgettable
    We’re not training students to memorize; instead, we encourage them to apply knowledge and enhance their understanding through real-world experiences. This distinction highlights the difference between merely learning something and actively using it.


  • Develop Thinkers, Not Just Doers
    Foster both creative and critical thinking, skills that fuel innovation, agility, and long-term adaptability.


  • Provide Actionable Feedback
    Give timely, meaningful feedback that helps students adjust, practice, and improve their performance.


  • Utilize Scientific Observations to make Informed Decision Making
    Assess student performance rigorously to understand each learner’s position, defining next steps through research-backed techniques.


  • Focus on Effective Solutions
    Break down issues to identify core challenges and implement strategies that create a significant impact. No fluff—just targeted execution.


  • Invest in People Skills
    Build social intelligence through collaboration, communication, and emotional intelligence—essential abilities in any startup or fast-moving team.


  • Teach the Skills that Matter
    Class communities need to learn how to reflect, solve problems, write, pitch ideas, collaborate, and think big. These skills are essential for fostering entrepreneurship.


  • Measure Real-World Readiness
    We focus on students' real-world readiness and what they can achieve with their learning. This is how we build futures.


Authentic Montessori education at Wheaton Montessori School is structured around childhood stages and innate drives. Instead of imposing limits on curriculum, all of our internationally certified teachers respect and reinforce the natural unfolding of each child’s abilities, which opens up students to surpass grade-level basics. Montessori learning environments are carefully prepared by these highly-specialized teachers to meet developmental needs, and the adult’s role shifts from teacher to someone who serves as an aide to life. Teachers are guides who always assess students, maintain engaging and complete classrooms, and support students individually to discover, grow, and thrive every day.


Embark on a journey of inspiration by scheduling your school tour today to witness the incredible dedication of our teachers!

Preschool enrollment is currently open, providing opportunities for eligible early childhood students to join our exciting summer camps, running through August 15th, as well as for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year. Act quickly, as we have limited spots available for new children aged 4 ½ and under!


Prospective families with toddlers and children under 4 ½ are encouraged to sign up for a school tour to explore the advantages of our preschool, which lays the essential foundation for kindergarten through the freshman year of high school*. 


Summer Camps: Prospective families who are enrolled in the 2025-2026 School Year are welcome to sign up for Wheaton Montessori School summer camps. Current students and recent graduates from our programs are also invited to summer camps.


* Individual school tours for kindergarten through 9th grade are not available, and the waitlist remains closed for the 2025-2026 School Year. The only exception is considered for students transferring from AMI-accredited Montessori schools that have maintained continuous attendance.


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Our Anchors of Love and Wisdom: Grandparents and Grandfriends

By Rebecca Lingo • November 24, 2025
To all the grandparents and grandfriends in our lives, with deepest gratitude: Thank you for being our family’s anchor, for your steady love, your wisdom, and for helping not just our children and adolescents, but us as parents and teachers feel supported. You are more than relatives; you are part of our community’s village. You are living bridges between today’s children and the deeper wisdom of experience. You are the unconditional love we need as grandchildren and are the support that we need as parents. Thank you. We see you holding a steady hand through the messy, emotional, and unpredictable work of raising children and adolescents. When one cries, whines, rebels, or acts out, thank you for not leaping to worst-case conclusions. You have seen the cycles, weathered the storms, and understand how often childhood’s turbulence is normal and simply requires time. Your calm confidence reminds us to trust the process. We are grateful. You embody calm truths. You offer a presence that affirms even when the young ones puzzle us or the adolescents forget “important” things. Having played this game before, you offer a comforting confidence in each child, adolescent, and young adult. You believe in us and our dreams. You know that children grow, heal, learn—and that today’s discomforts often resolve into tomorrow’s strength. Thank you for the meals you cook, the stories you tell, the adventures you lead, the rides you offer, the educational choices you support, the tears you soothe, the self-doubts you ease, and perhaps most of all, the patient witnessing of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood unfolding. You show us, grandchildren, caregivers, parents, and teachers alike, that we are not alone. Thank you for being keepers of continuity and reminding us that a struggle today is full of promise, young humans becoming who they are meant to be. Because of you, we are reassured that someone believes deeply in who we will each become. You accept us in our imperfections as we grow, and you show us how to live with grace. We are so grateful for all of you, our neighbors, chosen relatives, and family by bond and by love. Thank you, grandparents and grand friends. Your perspective is a gift beyond measure. During our annual Grandparents’ and Grandfriends’ Day on Tuesday, November 25, at Wheaton Montessori School, we honor the grandparents and grandfriends who have touched our lives with their love, wisdom, and stories. This special day celebrates the generations who inspire, guide, and shape our children with their experiences and care.