Author Archives: Elia Pena

Cypress Tree Classroom Highlight

Cypress Tree Upper Elementary Guide, Blanca Bird shares how the mind plays an important part in her classroom. Enjoy her classroom highlight below! “Upper Elementary, Cypress Tree students, are rapidly moving from the childlike concrete mind to the adolescent abstract mind. There is personal joy in using Montessori materials to understand a new concept and […]

Peach Tree Classroom Highlight

At St. Paul’s Episcopal Montessori School, our focus is to nourish mind, body, and spirit. In our classroom highlights this school year, guides will describe how mind, body, and spirit are mindfully put into their classroom teachings. “In the Lower Elementary Montessori classroom, we use special materials that help children explore, discover, and think in […]

St. Paul’s Celebrated 20 Years!

We had our 20th Anniversary Reunion Party yesterday! St. Paul’s Episcopal Church & School, founders, alumni, staff, parents, students, and donors all gathered for this wonderful celebration! Morning service was so inspiring, and brought our community even closer for this school year! Here at St. Paul’s, we are rooted in Montessori, Growing in Grace! A […]

Why I give to The Promise Fund

Promise in Action When our longtime toddler teacher first joined St. Paul’s, she was a parent who loved seeing her children flourish in the Montessori environment. Later, as a teacher, she fell in love with guiding toddlers through their first steps toward independence — watching them move through the classroom without help from the teacher. […]

Admin Spotlight

This week’s Admin Spotlight is St. Paul’s Head of School, Macleay Martinez! Enjoy learning more about her down below! #montessori #adminspotlight #headofschool #leadership #stpaulsepiscopalmontessorischool