Fountainhead Montessori

In 1972, Fountainhead Montessori schools were founded on and practice Dr. Maria Montessori's Montessori Method for education, which resulted from psychological studies of children. With five locations, Fountainhead Montessori operates schools in Livermore, Pleasant Hill, Dublin, Danville, and Orinda, California. In 2010, the Fountainhead Montessori remodeled its Pleasant Hill and Livermore campuses.

Offering East Bay residents quality education and child care with a variety of financially flexible payment plans and options, Fountainhead Montessori offers a customizable curriculum that emphasizes each student's spiritual, emotional, and scholastic growth. Fountainhead Montessori schools utilizes a curriculum that exercises the senses, improves language and math skills, and exposes children to different cultural subjects.

Fountainhead Montessori schools implement exercises of everyday activities. In order to promote children's growth, these courses strive to achieve the "help me do it by myself" theory developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. Activities include preservation of the environment, care of the person, control and coordination of movement, and nurturing of social relationships.

Based upon the observations of Dr. Maria Montessori, Fountainhead Montessori schools attempt to make all activities educational and joyful by utilizing a variety of senses. Students have demonstrated an improved ability to learn in this type of environment. Fountainhead Montessori students refine the senses in order to develop children's creative skills, as well as to prepare children for reading, writing, and mathematics.

Fountainhead Montessori schools also provide programs and training for the development of written and verbal language. Academic subjects include science, mathematics, and vocabulary. In addition to nurturing children's scholarship, Fountainhead Montessori encourages creativity and offers opportunities to practice and develop social relationships and individual responsibility. Through the implementation of the Montessori Method, Fountainhead Montessori schools in the Pleasant Hill and Livermore offer students a superior start to their futures.