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A Christian Montessori Elementary and Senior High School

Our Vision: to provide academic and individual excellence in K-12 education that is:

• accomplished by integrating Biblical foundations into the CPS school  culture through our core values and life style expectations.
• teaching the whole student through mind, body and spirit enables us to transform ordinary lives into extraordinary ones through faith, character, leadership and academic achievement.

How Does the Montessori Method Help Us Reach our Goals?

At Cornerstone, we integrate the best parts of the Montessori method with our own traditional way of teaching in order to provide the best of both philosophies. Montessori focuses on the following elements:

• Is child-centred and not teacher driven
• Emphasizes independent learning
• Encourages critical thinking and creative expression
• Mastery of academic skills while learning the value of time management

Junior Level ( Grades 1-6)

• Focuses on helping a child to develop a curiosity and desire to learn
• Emphasis on experiential and hands on learning approaches
• Uses a didactic approach ( providing information and direction)
• Teaching sequentially from the concrete to the abstract
• Sensitivity to the local and global world
• Development of life skills

Senior Level (Grades 7-12)

• Strong, positive and supportive environment in which adolescents know they are respected and loved
• School is a place where they can struggle, work hard, be responsible, challenge themselves and be inspired to discover the best of themselves.
• Faculty encourage students to be leaders and take responsibility for the community and for their own education
• Students, however are expected to think deeply and critically, to be intellectually independent and to value the opinion of others.  Discussion and healthy debates are encouraged so that it enables students to explore the world of ideas and concepts.
• CPS continues to provide a rigorously academic program that supports the student’s inquisitive nature and inspires the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed for intellectual scholarship in high school, college, university and professional life.

The Montessori Philosophy at Cornerstone

Every student needs to become happy life-long learners. CPS explores all areas of academic study with the individual student in mind.  Concentration, repetition and work habits allow students to explore concepts in greater detail.  With this added maturity, students have the confidence and independence to explore learning on a number of levels.

Our students develop life skills such as a love for learning, accountability, time management, responsibility, self-motivation and self-discipline.  These are all skills that are required not only at the senior high school level but also at University and during adult life.