The mission of McGuffey Montessori School is to educate a diverse community, emphasizing well-rounded academics in a welcoming and sustainable environment while engaging each learner: to take risks and accept challenges, to embrace the joy of learning, exploring, and growing, to realize his or her creative and intellectual potential. Our values spring from our philosophical base for creating an intentional community of learners. Our beliefs illustrate our pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning. Kindness, integrity, and true effort: ethical and intellectual courage, respect for each other and ourselves, an openness to that which is different and new, a sense of awe and responsibility, challenge that excites learning, motivating and educating one's self, persistence, the uniquely and delightfully human abilities to empathize and synthesize.