ABOUT MANDALA MONTESSORI
Mandala’s Mission
Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing educational environment that merges academic experiences with opportunities for social, physical, sensory, and intellectual growth.
In our school, teachers provide individualized instruction based on observation and understanding each child’s learning style and ability.
We encourage the whole child’s development through experiences that cultivate independent thinking, creative problem-solving, self-awareness, empathy for others, and environmental awareness.
Mandala’s Vision
Our vision is to provide quality education using Montessori methodology to prepare children for early school success and to encourage them to become curious, self-directed, life-long learners.
Together, Mandala Montessori and our parents seek to build children who value themselves and others, who are inspired to follow their own paths, who care for their environment, and who will excel in their areas of interest.
Mandala’s History
Mandala Montessori opened its doors in 2010 and consisted of only one classroom. Starting with eighteen students, the little classroom by the parkway grew steadily and eventually acquired the second classroom on the corner of 50th Street at the MUMC location.
In 2011, a third classroom was added to the Parkway. In 2021, Mandala Montessori closed its Parkway doors, and our program was leased and renovated at our Lake Nokomis location.
Today, with an enrollment of 58 students, Mandala is your Northrop and Minnehaha neighborhood community preschool!
“Children have a kind of instinct, a special sensibility, which urges them to acquire new words”
-Maria Montessori