Wildflower Schools

We are excited to host Melinda and Susana next month at our February TL Stories event!

Melinda is a Teacher Leader from Magnolia Blossom Montessori which serves children ages 1-6 in Louisville, Kentucky. She has recently decided to pursue new adventures following Wildflower, proud of what she and her team have accomplished together to provide a high-quality Montessori education to children from all backgrounds, while creating a work culture of autonomy with support.

We look forward to continuing our monthly TL Stories series in 2023!

In January, we will be hosting Helen from Sundrops Montessori School and Marion from Capucine Montessori School. Sundrops is a primary program that emerged from the collective visions of the Teacher Leaders as well as El Rancho Verde affordable housing department

Would you like to co-design and lead a Montessori micro-school with your community?

Join us in December as we host Veronica Vital from Cosmos Montessori and Eileen Fell from Clover Montessori. Cosmos is a public charter that is part of the Minnesota Wildflower Montessori School.

Every year, a new group of Wildflower schools peeks through the soil for the first time. Each new school is the culmination of a lifetime of learning and dreaming for its founders; collectively, they are a remarkable and diverse group of educators with visions for a more beautiful world. In the following pages, you will read the stories of 16 Teacher Leaders whose skills, passions, and life experiences sparked the creation of beautiful, community-embedded Wildflower schools.

Wildflower Teacher Leader Stories series continues!

In November, we are featuring Zani from The Riverseed School, which opened its doors this fall as the first DC Public Charter School site, and Jeana from Azalea Montessori

Educators from around the country continue to come together to share big dreams of creating tiny schools with their communities. During the June gathering for Teacher Leader Stories, educators Jill Evans of Goldenrod Montessori (Cleveland, OH) and Eric Oglesbee of River Montessori High School (South Bend, IN) shared their unique entrepreneurial advice for emerging Teacher Leaders.

Wildflower Schools – Minnesota hosted a virtual town hall with a panel of Black and Indigenous education leaders and institution-builders from around the United States. The panelists shared the life experiences, spiritual preparation, and practical skills they build upon to use Montessori education as a tool for racial justice and liberation.

We hold the Uvalde community in our hearts as we mourn the devastating loss of 19 children and 2 teachers – so soon after 10 people in Buffalo were viciously gunned down in an act of racial terror, another person was killed in a house of worship, and after so many others have died due to gun violence.

Wildflower Teacher Leaders Britni Haynie and Kanan Patel share a passion for reflecting Wildflower’s foundational commitments to practice anti-bias anti-racism and unity in their schools and their work with emerging Teacher Leaders around the country.