About Us
Loyola University Maryland's Center for Montessori Education, within the School of Education, brings together faculty, students, and community members to participate in high-quality professional development that promotes learning and growth. Through distinctive programs, partnerships, and strategic planning, we aim to create inclusive opportunities for all Montessori professionals and communities to analyze, synthesize, and recognize the strengths of the Montessori method and its outcomes.
Mission
The Center for Montessori Education is dedicated to empowering practitioners worldwide, guided by Dr. Maria Montessori's belief in the child as central to creating a more just and equitable future.
Vision
The Center for Montessori Education serves as a dynamic hub for empowering professionals, offering diverse perspectives and practical tools to advance equitable, resilient communities and foster educational change.
Core Values
Inclusive Practices, Diverse Perspectives, Educational Change
Land Acknowledgment
In recognition of our existence on Indigenous land, Loyola University Maryland’s Center for Montessori Education shows honor and respect to the Piscataway Confederacies, Mattawomans, Chapitocs, Portobbacos, Nanjemoys peoples, who are among the original stewards of the land we occupy. With the Piscataway confederacies, the Mattawomans, the Chapitocs, the Portobbacos, the Nanjemoys, and the Anacostans have continued to live and thrive for over 13,000 years. Tribal nations celebrate the waters and soils, now impoverished by our industrial systems, which used to be fertile and untouched. In 2012, after roughly 212 years of work towards formal recognition, Governor Martin O'Malley granted the executive order of "State Recognition to the Piscataway Conoy Tribe.” We recognize as a community that there is still work to be done. As a Jesuit Catholic institution, we are called by our values to engage in active discernment about our institution and the Catholic Church's role in the oppression, exclusion, and erasure of Indigenous nations. Loyola University Maryland and Loyola’s Center for Montessori Education commit to calling out continued systemic injustice, repairing institutional harms, and renewing our commitment to working in solidarity to heal this land.