About Northeast Iowa Montessori School
The joy of learning
Northeast Iowa Montessori School provides a nurturing environment that cultivates each child’s intellectual and creative potential while instilling a sense of individual and global responsibility.
NEIM directly follows the philosophy, principles and methods of Dr. Maria Montessori.
NEIM believes that children learn by doing. Purposeful work that is spontaneously chosen is carried out with profound satisfaction. Northeast Iowa Montessori encourages independence, respect to self and others, critical thinking, and a responsibility to the world around them.
Northeast Iowa Montessori (NEIM) is a 501c3 not-for-profit school, serving children ages 3 to 6 in the preschool program, and ages 6 to 10 in the elementary program. The curriculum follows the methods outlined by Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and anthropologist, whose theories about educational learning styles developed through decades of careful and systematic observation of children from various cultural, social, psychological backgrounds.
Our Core Values
Caring
We have a passion for the people we serve and the families we support.
Diversity
We are committed to diversity in our staffing and in the communities and people that we serve.
Excellence
We strive to achieve highest standards of organizational excellence through implementing best practices.
Innovation
We provide creative responses to community needs.
Integrity
We honor our commitments. We will not promise what we cannot deliver.
Respect
We honor people as individuals. We offer choices to the people we serve.
Stewardship
We will manage NEIM so that we remain financially strong with an overall fiscal strategy that supports the delivery of quality programs.
Team Work
We are committed to teamwork through building relationships, establishing partnerships and developing leadership.
