The LGM Community

Our community is comprised of students, parents, teachers, and administrators. All play an important role to ensure success at Lefferts Gardens Montessori. Our primary role is to respect and trust the innate desire that yearns to learn, grow, and mature.

Teachers and Administration
The expertise of our teachers and administration presents parents with a philosophy, an environment, and a method supporting the role of parenting. In this way, we form a community.

Parents
Parents in particular have an important mission - to continually seek to understand and appreciate the role nature has entrusted to them. Before all others, parents are responsible for the growth and development of their children.

The Classroom
The LGM community coalesces around the classroom and the Parents Activity Group (PAG). Parents, as well as students, participate in school activities. We encourage parents to come to the school and observe the Montessori process in our classes anytime, to accompany students on class trips, and to actively communicate with our teachers and the school administration through parent-teacher conferences and PTA meetings.

Support the Montessori Process in the Home
We urge parents to learn about the Montessori philosophy and methods so they can support this process in their homes. In this vein, we have designed a For Parents section (see the navigation headings to the left) summarizing the Montessori approach to education. There is also a Read More page with recommended books and a link to our LGM Montessori Store.