About Us
Loyola University Maryland's Center for Montessori Education, within Loyola's School of Education, brings together faculty, students, and community partners together to advance Montessori practice. Through innovative graduate coursework grounded in Loyola's mission, we prepare students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Through accessible graduate coursework opportunities we aim to strengthen and carry forward the Montessori method alongside current research and mission-driven approaches to teaching and learning.
Mission & Vision
The Center for Montessori Education is committed to inspirational teaching, innovative scholarship and social justice in practice with school and community partners. Guided by cura personalis, caring for the whole person, we develop transformational education professionals who bring this commitment to the diverse and changing communities across the nation and world.
We envision a future where innovation in education transforms how we reflect, learn, and lead. As a graduate center, we are building a community where scholars and practitioners bring their commitment to mission-driven education into the conversation with current research to deepen their pedagogical expertise and collaborate across disciplines to create equitable, learner-centered educational systems.
Programming
Loyola’s M.Ed. program pathways, designed for professionals ready to grow, lead, and continually shape the future of Montessori education can join our programming during the summer, fall, or spring semesters. Learn more and apply early!
(Admission for our Concurrent program pathway is paused for the 2026-2027 academic year.)
Interested in taking one or two courses? Learn more about our non-degree student enrollment options here.
Land Acknowledgment
In recognition of our existence on Indigenous land, Loyola University Maryland’s Center for Montessori Education shows honor and respect to the Piscataway Confederacies, Mattawomans, Chapitocs, Portobbacos, Nanjemoys peoples, who are among the original stewards of the land we occupy. With the Piscataway confederacies, the Mattawomans, the Chapitocs, the Portobbacos, the Nanjemoys, and the Anacostans have continued to live and thrive for over 13,000 years. Tribal nations celebrate the waters and soils, now impoverished by our industrial systems, which used to be fertile and untouched. In 2012, after roughly 212 years of work towards formal recognition, Governor Martin O'Malley granted the executive order of "State Recognition to the Piscataway Conoy Tribe.” We recognize as a community that there is still work to be done. As a Jesuit Catholic institution, we are called by our values to engage in active discernment about our institution and the Catholic Church's role in the oppression, exclusion, and erasure of Indigenous nations. Loyola University Maryland and Loyola’s Center for Montessori Education commit to calling out continued systemic injustice, repairing institutional harms, and renewing our commitment to working in solidarity to heal this land.