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Montessori advisory council urges CMSD to preserve full Montessori model in district schools
Summary
A representative of Montessori Development Partnerships and the Montessori Advisory Council told the Cleveland Board of Education the district should safeguard five core components of Montessori instruction, flagging teacher reassignments, truncated age spans and students walking to other buildings for lunch as specific concerns.
Martha Lockridge spoke during the district's public participation period on behalf of Montessori Development Partnerships (MDP) and the Montessori Advisory Council and urged the Board of Education to protect the fidelity of Montessori programming in the Cleveland district.
Lockridge said the advisory council, formed in 2020 to steward a campus merger that created Stonebrook White Montessori, revised its governing regulations to support two schools and updated a memorandum of understanding it said is ready for the board to sign. She listed the five core components the council wants the board to protect:…
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