About AMAC

Arlington Montessori Action Committee is an organization of Montessori parents and educators whose primary goal is to promote and expand Montessori education. We are advocates for Montessori and are working for its continued support and expansion in Arlington Public Schools.

APS’s Montessori program promotes self-directed learning, healthy self-discipline, and good citizenship. Montessori children learn in an environment that is community-centered, where they have strong ties to adults at school, and receive differentiated instruction from a variety of resources both inside and outside the classroom, including other children. Montessori works for children of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and APS’s Montessori classrooms exhibit this diversity. In short, the Montessori program meets several of the goals in APS’s 2005-2011 Strategic Plan, including narrowing the achievement gap, rising achievement for all students, and responsive education.


We are advocating for the continued support and growth of the program in the following ways:

  1. access to data showing the academic performance of children in Arlington Montessori programs and children who have graduated from Montessori programs;
  2. increased growth of the current program, especially at the base - the preschool level;
  3. the opportunity for our children to continue with this successful program at a critical time in their development, the middle school years;
  4. a Montessori-trained coordinator at the Ed. Center to support the program; and
  5. more effective promotion of the program as a choice school in Arlington.

We’re Already Making a Positive Impact

  • Met with APS senior staff to discuss the formation and goals of AMAC
  • Helped implement APS Montessorian, an APS Montessori newsletter
  • Helped create an APS video, “Montessori Revealed”
  • Provided parent support for the 2007 Montessori Information Night
  • Designed and sold T-shirts for the 100th anniversary of the Montessori movement
  • Helped plan and assist in the APS 100th Montessori Anniversary Celebration
  • Cosponsored countywide Montessori year end picnic

More about Montessori
in Arlington, Virginia


Please Join Us

If you are committed to public Montessori education for your child or because it works for children of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and if you want our school system to expand the curriculum to its full potential, you have a voice. We meet monthly and sponsor year-round Montessori events in Arlington.

To find out more, please become a member, join our Yahoo Listserv or contact us directly.

Become AMAC’s parent representative for your school. Contact us for more information.

Join the AMAC Listserv

groups.yahoo.com/group/montessoriaction

Join APS Talk

School Talk is the Arlington Public Schools email messaging system. APS has created a customized Montessori School Talk list with content related to APS Montessori news and events. To sign up, go to:

www.apsva.us/schooltalk

Then click on "Sign up for Special Lists"

(direct link: http://research.zarca.com/clients/APSchools/survey.aspx?sid=220)

This will sign you up only for the Montessori School Talk list -- it doesn't mean you have a School Talk account and you wouldn't be getting any other School Talk messages unless you have signed up for School Talk separately.

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