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We provide an international form of education, where you can find math, engineering and the sciences interwoven with a curriculum that focuses on the arts and social justice.
At the Montessori Elementary Intermediate School of Alameda (MEISA), our mission is to create a concrete, experiential learning foundation that centers around the achievement of the full development of the child. We are committed to maintaining an environment that stimulates, challenges and creates a curiosity about learning, while engendering a love, respect and understanding of self and others.
Our elementary program includes a well-rounded program for children to develop their giftedness in the areas of interest.
We include music, physical education and performing arts to enhance neuro development and strengths.
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Monthly tuition depends upon School Day $1625/mo or Full Time $1933/mo. Scholarships are available - please visit our website at
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Montessori education has expanded in Alameda with the addition
of an award-winning program, the Montessori Elementary Intermediate
School of Alameda (MEISA).
OUR MISSION is to create a warm, supportive environment, that
fosters creativity, curiousity, self-confidence and independance
within a diverse community. We empower students to become
compassionate models of peace and advocates for social
justice.
MEISA involves the academic rigor of core subjects, balanced by
an emphasis in writing, critical thinking, public speaking and a
strong focus on the arts, social justice and physical education.
The world`s changing technological and social milieu requires
schools to continually evaluate education its structure and its
meaning to guide students to be societal and environmental
changemakers. We need systems that move past simply lecture, drill,
and memorization to concrete, living education that challenge
children to be critical thinkers, lovers of the arts and empathic
social justice advocates. MEISA responds to help students learn how
to learn, and think deeply about the impact of their thoughts. At
MEISA, we go beyond the traditional, and bring a living, breathing
international curriculum with a foundation embedded in the arts and
cultural studies. MEISA is Transitional Kindergarten through 8th
grade, with a small class size, with blended grades, which allows
attention and innovation within the classroom. Our curriculum
integrates Common Core within the Montessori academic scope and
sequence, with an underpinning of lessons of character development,
leadership and responsibility to self, community and the world. Our
arts and PE curriculum includes soccer, ukulele and community
involvement. Our world studies include the study and active
involvement in earth science, including sustainable gardening and
botany, social justice which includes public speaking and
researching ways to impact the world. Our "S3" science is the new
driving force in our curriculum. The program continues to develop
and refine research and inquiry skills learned in the elementary
cultural lessons while emphasizing individual research and modern
history. The "S3" curriculum is an integrated study of geography,
history, and the sciences. Because students learn best when given
real-world, personal, hands-on learning opportunities, "S3" studies
are taught through impressionistic lessons, primary and secondary
source readings, independent research, experiments, and class
discussions.Discover our international form of change-making
education. At MEISA, our non-traditional emphasis is unmatched in
many typical settings. Join the new Alameda experience that creates
confident learners.
Grades: NS | 21 students3.1 miles 3171 Mecartney Rd Alameda, CA 94502 (510) 523-4080
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School Reviews
53/7/2022
I have children in the lower elementary and upper elementary classrooms. Great experience in both. The small class size and individual attention work well for my children, giving them the support they need in certain areas as well as the freedom to learn as quickly and in-depth as they want to, without being held back by a grade-level curriculum. They love the hands-on projects and walking field trips where they get to practice and experience things they are learning in biology. The art and music program surpasses anything they were or would be able to do in other schools. They love going to school and never want to leave at the end of the day.
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