Mi Escuela Montessori

🌟 Welcome to Our New Assistant Principal! 🌟

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the Mi Escuela Montessori leadership team, Kalani Schlenker, officially starting July 27!

She joins us with years of Montessori classroom instruction, public school leadership, and a deep passion for high-integrity Montessori practices.

In her role, she will be focusing on:

📈 Advancing academic achievement

🌱 Coaching teachers & supporting Montessori training

🏫 Fostering a safe, positive, and welcoming school climate

📝 Guiding academic assessments & bullying prevention

She is eager to meet our amazing families! Stay tuned for dates and locations for informal meet-and-greets before her official start date.

👉 Click the link in our bio to read her full welcome letter on our website! https://www.miescuelamontessori.com/post/welcome-to-our-new-assistant-principal

🚨 IMMEDIATE OPENING: Registrar & Enrollment Manager
📍 Mi Escuela Montessori | Bartow, FL (Brand-New Campus!)

💰 $18.00 – $22.00 / Hour | 💼 11-Month or 12-Month Contract Options

🗣️ Bilingual (Spanish/English) Highly Preferred

We are expanding into our beautiful new state-of-the-art facility during the upcoming school year and need our operational anchor right now! If you are a systems-minded wizard who loves helping families and keeping records flawless, we want to talk to you today.

🌟 The Ideal Candidate:
We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running. Highest priority will be given to candidates who have:

💻 FOCUS System Experience: Deep familiarity with the public school FOCUS enrollment, scheduling, and student information system.

📊 Attendance & FTE Tracking: Experience managing daily attendance records, tracking chronic absenteeism, and navigating Florida FTE reporting cycles.

👶 Bonus Asset: Experience with Department of Children & Families (DCF) licensing paperwork for early childhood programs (Toddler-PreK).

🛠️ What You’ll Do:
You are the "Architect of the Student Journey"—the very first point of contact for our families and the keeper of school data.

Manage the enrollment pipeline, student applications, and the public charter lottery.

Oversee and audit daily attendance records to ensure perfect data accuracy for state funding and compliance.

Maintain flawless public school cumulative records and DCF child care compliance files.

Be the welcoming, helpful voice guiding prospective parents through the admissions process in both English and Spanish.

Choose Your Track: We offer both 11-month (aligned with the school year) and 12-month (year-round) contract options to fit your lifestyle.

The Workspace: You’ll get a brand-new administrative suite when we move to our beautiful new campus.

The Perks: Employer-sponsored health insurance, retirement savings match, flexible summer hours

📝 Quick Qualifications:
High School Diploma required (Associate’s or Bachelor’s preferred).

Proven registrar, attendance management, or school compliance experience in Florida.

Fluency in Spanish and English is highly prioritized!

📲 Don't wait—we are interviewing immediately!
Apply now to join our team for this exciting inaugural year.
👉 https://www.miescuelamontessori.com/job-opportunity

Join Our Team - Mi Escuela Montessori | Careers in Education Make a difference at Mi Escuela Montessori! We’re seeking passionate educators and staff who share our commitment to educational equity. Explore current job opportunities and apply to be part of a diverse, bilingual learning community.

Traditional Teachers: Ready to Break Free from the "Test Prep" Cycle?
🚀 Now Hiring: Lower Elementary Teacher (Grades 1–3), Upper Elementary Teacher (Grade 4-6)

📍 Mi Escuela Montessori | Polk County, FL

🗣️ Dual-Language (Spanish/English) Strongly Preferred

Ever wish you could throw out the rigid pacing guides and actually teach kids how to think, explore, and become independent? If you love teaching but feel trapped by traditional schooling, we are looking for you.

You do not need prior Montessori training to apply. We are looking for talented, passionate Florida-certified teachers who want to make the switch to a holistic, dual-language model.

🤝 The Ultimate Safety Net: Co-Teaching & Mentorship
You won't be thrown into a new method alone. You will be part of a collaborative co-teaching team, paired side-by-side with a trained Montessori Guide who will mentor and support you every single step of the way.

🔗 Ready to evolve your career with a built-in safety net?
Click the link to read the full job description and apply today!
👉https://www.miescuelamontessori.com/job-opportunity

NOW HIRING: Middle School ELA Teacher (Grades 7–8)
📍 Mi Escuela Montessori | Lakeland/Bartow, FL

💰 $48,000 - $60,000 | 📅 196-Day School Calendar (Summers/Holidays Off!)

Tired of rigid pacing guides, cookie-cutter scripts, and teaching English in a silo? Ready to reclaim your creative freedom and fall in love with teaching again?

We are seeking a passionate Middle School ELA Teacher ("Guide") who wants to step off the stage and design immersive, deeply engaging learning experiences. No prior Montessori experience required—we will help train you!

🎨 Your Creative Canvas: What You’ll Actually Do
If your dream is to run a classroom bursting with authentic voice, collaboration, and critical thinking, you belong here. You will get to lead:

📚 Literature Circles: Inspire a genuine love of reading and deep comprehension through student-led book discussions.

✍️ The Writing Cycle: Foster a true community of writers using peer review, workshops, and creative revisions.

🎙️ Multi-Genre Mastery: Help students build portfolios that mix academic writing, creative essays, poetry, and digital media (like podcasts!).

🌍 Thematic, Team-Taught Units: Collaborate daily with Math, Science, and Social Studies teachers to build awesome, interconnected projects (e.g., studying dystopian literature alongside history and civics).

🎤 Daily Poetry & Rhetoric: Start days with a "Poetry of the Day" ritual and coach students to write speeches that matter to them.

💼 Perks & Sponsored Growth
No Montessori Credential? No Problem. We look for great educators first. We will assist with training after your first year of teaching.

📝 Qualifications
Valid Florida Professional Teaching Certificate in English (Grades 5-9 or 6-12).

Reading Endorsement (or ability to obtain).

Bonus: Bilingual (Spanish/English) candidates are highly prioritized in our dual-language immersion community!

🔗 Ready to break free from the traditional mold?

Apply today to build something beautiful with us as we expand!
👉 https://www.miescuelamontessori.com/job-opportunity

Join Our Team - Mi Escuela Montessori | Careers in Education Make a difference at Mi Escuela Montessori! We’re seeking passionate educators and staff who share our commitment to educational equity. Explore current job opportunities and apply to be part of a diverse, bilingual learning community.

Kids are wired to read the adults around them. Your nervous system literally sets the temperature in the room. Be the thermostat, not the thermometer.

The most powerful classroom management tool you have is yourself.

Mi Escuela Montessori will leave its current Lakeland location and move into a building under construction in Bartow. See link below ⬇️

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If the adult is doing most of the talking, the child is not doing most of the thinking.

Research in cognitive science and developmental psychology consistently shows that learning is strengthened through active engagement rather than passive reception. Across decades of work on constructivist learning theory and active learning environments, a clear pattern emerges: children learn more deeply when they are directly involved in doing, rather than primarily receiving information.
In other words, thinking develops through action.

When instruction is continuous, children remain largely in a receptive role. When they are given time to manipulate materials, repeat work, make decisions, and correct themselves within a prepared environment, cognition becomes self-directed rather than externally driven.

In Montessori environments, this principle is made operational through uninterrupted work cycles, concrete materials, and carefully prepared environments that support exploration and repetition. The adult’s role is intentionally reduced in volume so that the child’s engagement can increase in depth.

Short presentations replace extended instruction. Observation replaces constant correction. Silence becomes the condition in which concentration and independent thought can develop.

When we shift from explanation to engagement, we are not removing learning. We are changing its conditions.