When the consulting team for Education 2000 met to assess the results of work done within the educational community to determine better ways to meet the educational needs of American children, it was unanimously agreed that the foundation of education is set during early childhood.

We offer a spiraling curriculum, or one in which students work from "the big picture" (sense of gestalt) toward an increasing level of detail. Skills and concepts are reintroduced to them at increasing levels of complexity and abstraction over time.

Along with the Montessori approach, we use compatible curriculum and programmatic elements of additional approaches and materials from the non-Montessori educational community that have been carefully researched to provide opportunities for enrichment beyond basic curriculum. Another Way provides individualized pacing and adaptation of the classroom program to meet any style of learning. We teach based on a guiding principle of respect, we believe that learning is, and should be, joyful and activity based. Movement is the foundation of all learning; the human body is optimized by the quality of movement. (Anat Baniel) In other words, in activity-based learning, first the child learns to move and then can easily move to learn.

Children need millions of random experiences upon which they can draw creatively

The child is allowed to maximize his or her development in an environment designed to stimulate and engage the whole child. This promotes an innate love of learning, a wide range of interests, and openness to new ideas and possibilities.

Another Way is based on Respect for Self, Others and the environment

We give the children freedom within limits; leading to good judgment and in turn social responsibility for one's own actions. We focus on the development of compassionate intelligence. Choice, even in a small child, presupposes a long series of experiences.

Children deserve excellence for they inherit the future from us.