Reply to Experience with Shining Stars?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Experience with Shining Stars?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumping this as we are a military family who received their orders after the lottery deadline, and are approaching the top of the list for our lower elementary kid.  I noticed that in the job postings on the Shining Stars websites, lead teachers aren't required to have a Montessori degree or experience?  How integrated are Montessori materials in the classroom?  Is it all in or 50/50?  We are coming from an NC Montessori charter that isn't yet AMI certified, but wants to get there, so all guides have to have a masters in Montessori teaching[/quote]

[b]All lead guides are required to be certified.[/b] The job postings indicate so. The school requires it to maintain all its accreditation. They are also piloting a Spanish program, started a little slow but is taking great shape. New guides have been hired in the upper levels to address previous issues and most of the facility problems have been address. It’s a great school, with a nice and diverse community. [/quote]

This is categorically false. Shining stars absolutely hires guides who are not certified and simply requires them to work towards certification. Last year the sole upper elementary guide was not montessori trained and was so awful, close to half the upper elementary families left in the first few months of school. I believe she was ultimately fired. Similarly, the Spanish speaking guide was not certified and the current principal has zero montessori training or experience, beyond whatever course she took over the past summer.[/quote]

Do you know what the Principal's Montessori experience is?

The new hires are all montessori certified. The assistants are not but have training. The spanish teachers are getting their certification by the end of the year. Both new teachers in the first grade Spanish class are real montessori, trained and certified. The problems of the previous years are being addressed with the great plus of a diverse faculty. Not many schools can say that[/quote][/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics