Who We Are
Cascadia School: Who We Are
The 2019-2020 school year marked Cascadia’s 25th year of providing Montessori education to children in Southwest Washington and Portland.
Since opening our doors in 1994, Cascadia School has maintained a vision of making Montessori’s child-centered education available in a safe supportive community that promotes self-discipline, confidence, collaborative citizenship, and a lasting love of learning.
We provide a curriculum that is challenging, coherent, and relevant for each child, fostering their innate desire to learn and their love for knowledge. At Cascadia, children engage in purposeful, intellectual, and independent work. They are challenged through working with the Montessori materials, having concrete experiences, and progressing at their own developmental pace to a level of abstract understanding.
Cascadia School is a 501(c)3 with a board comprised of current parents, alumni parents, and community members. The board meets monthly with one annual retreat.
Our Mission
Cascadia School encourages the inherent love of learning and guides the development of the whole child; preparing students to become responsible contributing members of their immediate and global communities.
Our Vision
Through the Montessori philosophy, Cascadia provides a child centered education in a safe, supportive community that promotes self-discipline, confidence, collaboration, citizenship and a lasting love of learning.
Our Equity Statement
We strive to embody Dr. Montessori's vision of providing an educational environment fostering all students to be self-motivated, independent thinkers who learn from and contribute to the global community. Our families, staff and students promote a collaborative community that embraces our differences from a place of awareness, appreciation, empathy, and learning.
Our Values
* Respect for the child
We respect each child and are committed to guiding each student on his or her own individual path to independence and intellectual development.
* Excellence in education
We achieve excellence in education by inspiring children toward their full social and intellectual potential and fostering a lasting love of learning.
* Developmentally Appropriate Focus
We value collaborative environments as a way to promote responsible interdependence fostering confidence and self-knowledge.
* Appreciation of the natural world
We value the outdoor environment as a way to cultivate the child’s appreciation of nature and human beings’ age-old role as stewards of the natural world.
* Diversity and cooperation
We value classrooms which provide diversity in age, background, and skill level as a way to teach cooperation, mutual respect, and peaceful resolution of conflicts – critical skills of effective citizens in our society.
* Engaged communities
We value the active involvement of family, faculty, and friends.
“My son has spent the past 8 years learning and growing at Cascadia. He hasn’t just learned the basics (math, English, science, history). He has also learned how to work with others, how to mentor younger students, and how to be a role model.”
- A Cascadia Parent
If you think your child would thrive in a Montessori environment, give us a call or schedule a tour online. We would love for you to visit our school and learn more.
