Bylaws of the Maria Montessori Language and Cultural Center
Seattle, Washington - King County
Revised 1/18/2017

Our Goals
We provide and share presentations, activities, and workshops to educate teachers and the public about Dr. Montessori's global philosophy of child development and its system of delivery through Montessori education. Supporting outreach beyond the early years, we encourage partnerships and lab schools to be associated with Family & Consumer Sciences Education and its role in preparing youth for practical life and careers in health, education, human services and beyond.
Our Vision
The Maria Montessori Language and Cultural Center (MMLCC) is an intergenerational community guided by the principles of Maria Montessori where an understanding of interconnectedness is both expressed and strengthened through cultural renewal, environmental restoration, and individual healing.
Why We Do What We Do
Why Montessori? And Why combine it with Family and Consumer Sciences or Human Studies in public schools?
Two female pioneers are the principal inspiration for our work - both are foremothers of the MMLCC collaboration today. Both promoted healthy outdoor environments in urbanized areas to benefit quality and health in community life.
Dr. Maria Montessori: Her discoveries about the child’s amazing brain through her scientific observations led her to create a unique system of education that matches the needs of children in the 21st century.
Ellen Swallow Richards: The most prominent female chemist of the 19th century. Richards pioneered sanitary engineering and founded Home Economics, later renamed Family and Consumer Sciences.
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The MMLCC has engaged educators, students, families and communities for over two decades through various mediums. We pioneered opening a transformative pathway to collaborate and improve educational practices by engaging in a unique perspective for change.
Today there are shortages of teaching professionals in Montessori Early Education and in Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). By locating a site where a school is open to combine a scientific model that demonstrates how children learn guided by professionals, with strong backgrounds in child development, who have been trained in an individualized curriculum.
Board Mission: We encourage Montessori educators who have had experience working with non-profit Montessori evidenced-based systems for 3 through 5 year olds to contact us to discuss the benefits of reaching out into the community of young people seeking careers in education. By collaborating with public high schools and colleges we can further explore the science of human growth and behavior, review the planes of development, and participate in research of cognitive development and neuroscience in the 21st century.
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Email: office.mmlcc@gmail.com
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Phone Number: (360) 255-1954