A Warm Aloha!

            Welcome to Growing Minds Montessori Academy!  We are excited to offer a quality educational experience to you and your child. It has been such a blessing to have the opportunity to create a beautiful indoor and outdoor environment which encourages learning and creativity. Your child will have a wonderful opportunity for exploration, discovery, and growth as an individual, all of which will serve in the development of his or her academic skills and abilities. This learning will be engaged with a wide range of educational activities as prescribed by Maria Montessori and outlined in the curriculum developed by the North American Montessori Center (NAMC). You can find more details about our curriculum and program here.

I would like to share a bit about my own personal and professional background. My name is Mila Dahlman, and I am a credentialed classroom teacher, with five years of experience teaching primarily at the elementary level. Additionally, I am a certified Reading Specialist and certified in the Montessori teaching methodology at the 0 to 3 years and 3 to 6 years levels. I am a mother of three young children, Leilani, Josiah, and Wyatt. More importantly, my husband James and I are committed to the Christian faith and strive to raise our family to follow this commitment. As such, the education we will be providing will reflect these values. Although we are not a Christian school and do not follow a Christian curriculum or any specific denomination, we do live out the principles taught by Christ in our daily lives, which will play out in the way we work with and relate to children in our care. We wanted to be clear and open about our beliefs to ensure that our work together is a good fit for the both of us.

We believe that parents are truly their children’s first and most important teachers. I am honored to be your teaching partner as we provide meaningful and stimulating learning experiences together on behalf of your child. Please keep in mind that the first six years of your child’s life are the most formative physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively, so let’s make the best of them!