Apple Montessori Schools
With locations throughout New Jersey, Apple Montessori Schools provide parents
across the state with a nontraditional educational approach for their children.
There are 16 Apple Montessori Schools preschools and 1 elementary school, which
almost exclusively serves graduates of said preschools. Students learn in an
environment designed to foster independence, healthy psychological development,
including communication skills, and advanced learning skills.
Developed in 1897 by Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator, the Montessori
approach in use at Apple Montessori Schools builds on the underlying principles
innate to human development and behavior. Maria Montessori observed a number of
characteristics common to all people in her studies of psychology. Along with
her son, Mario Montessori, she developed a list of “human tendencies,” which her
educational method would later serve and support: self-preservation, order,
orientation to the environment, exploration, exactness, communication, work,
abstraction, self-perfection, manipulation of the environment, the mathematical
mind, and repetition.
The first of the Apple Montessori Schools opened in 1971, thanks to Rex and Jane
Bailey. Mrs. Bailey, an experienced teacher who had used the Montessori approach
previously, found herself unhappy with the limited educational opportunities in
northern New Jersey at that time. Together with her husband, she opened the first
Montessori school in the region, the first Apple Montessori School. Their four
daughters, Lynn Morris Piccolo, Joanne Mooney, Pamela Howarth, and Vanessa
Krippner, together with two sons-in-law, Ronald Krippner and Robert Howarth,
continue the Apple Montessori Schools' mission of improving early childhood education.
Apple Montessori Schools serve the cities of Cliffside Park, Mount Tabor, Edgewater,
Oakland, Randolph, Edison, Guttenberg, Towaco, Wayne, Kinnelon, Morris Plains,
West Milford, and Mahwah. The schools offer programs for infants, toddlers,
kindergarteners, and elementary school children, along with after-school programs
like karate, dance, piano, chess, and soccer, and a summer camp with swimming,
cooking, crafting, and science classes. A supplementary computer-based program,
FasTracKids, is a joint partnership in education, featuring interactive lessons synergistic with
Montessori methods.
across the state with a nontraditional educational approach for their children.
There are 16 Apple Montessori Schools preschools and 1 elementary school, which
almost exclusively serves graduates of said preschools. Students learn in an
environment designed to foster independence, healthy psychological development,
including communication skills, and advanced learning skills.
Developed in 1897 by Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator, the Montessori
approach in use at Apple Montessori Schools builds on the underlying principles
innate to human development and behavior. Maria Montessori observed a number of
characteristics common to all people in her studies of psychology. Along with
her son, Mario Montessori, she developed a list of “human tendencies,” which her
educational method would later serve and support: self-preservation, order,
orientation to the environment, exploration, exactness, communication, work,
abstraction, self-perfection, manipulation of the environment, the mathematical
mind, and repetition.
The first of the Apple Montessori Schools opened in 1971, thanks to Rex and Jane
Bailey. Mrs. Bailey, an experienced teacher who had used the Montessori approach
previously, found herself unhappy with the limited educational opportunities in
northern New Jersey at that time. Together with her husband, she opened the first
Montessori school in the region, the first Apple Montessori School. Their four
daughters, Lynn Morris Piccolo, Joanne Mooney, Pamela Howarth, and Vanessa
Krippner, together with two sons-in-law, Ronald Krippner and Robert Howarth,
continue the Apple Montessori Schools' mission of improving early childhood education.
Apple Montessori Schools serve the cities of Cliffside Park, Mount Tabor, Edgewater,
Oakland, Randolph, Edison, Guttenberg, Towaco, Wayne, Kinnelon, Morris Plains,
West Milford, and Mahwah. The schools offer programs for infants, toddlers,
kindergarteners, and elementary school children, along with after-school programs
like karate, dance, piano, chess, and soccer, and a summer camp with swimming,
cooking, crafting, and science classes. A supplementary computer-based program,
FasTracKids, is a joint partnership in education, featuring interactive lessons synergistic with
Montessori methods.