Guiding Principles
Children’s Kiva Montessori School mentors, encourages, and guides children to become responsible, thoughtful, caring citizens through curriculum and practices that emphasize:
  • Authentic Montessori methods.
  • Rigorous, integrated academics - project-based and Colorado Standards-based curriculum that integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and the Arts (STEAM).
  • Community-based approaches including field experiences in our rich local and global environments and close partnerships with families, community organizations, institutions, businesses, and higher education.
  • A whole child, whole school, whole community approach that embraces and enriches the talents and resources of our students, families, faculty, and community.
  • A strong commitment to the remarkable cultural and ecological diversity of the Four Corners through inclusive practices in teaching, learning, hiring, and enrollment.

Students will achieve success, responsibility, self-reliance and empowerment in the following key areas:
  • Language Arts and Mathematics
  • Science, Technology, and Engineering
  • Cultural Studies, Humanities, and Spanish 
  • The Arts and Movement
  • Character Development including personal, social, and emotional skills

WHY MONTESSORI?
Longitudinal studies of Montessori education have found that Montessori students: 
  • have better academic and social skills than peers in non-Montessori classrooms 
  • are life-long learners, self-disciplined, and self-controlled 
  • have a greater understanding of truth and fairness 
  • are creative, especially in writing 
  • are more independent 
  • have stronger conceptual understandings in mathematics, grammar, and the sciences 
  • have deeper understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of humanities, and the sciences 
                                                                                                     (Lillard; Science, 2006)
For more, see: /uploads/2/1/8/8/21880172/montessori_education_provides_better_outcomes.docx
See also: 
http://montessorimadness.com/Montessori_Madness%21/Videos.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech-Culture/2012/0831/Maria-Montessori-Is-the-Montessori-method-any-good