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Hershey Receives $20K Award to Support Huntsburg Campus, Farm

Hershey Receives $20K Award to Support Huntsburg Campus, Farm

Apr 2, 2025 | Featured Posts, School News | 0 comments

Huntsburg, OH — Hershey Montessori School (HMS) is pleased to announce a $20,000 award from the Rig III Family Foundation to support capacity building at its Huntsburg 7th-12th Grade Campus.

The funding will address infrastructure and operational needs, including building repairs and professional development for staff. Additionally, this award will fund repairs to animal fencing, upgrades to campus facilities, and support operational costs, such as mental health specialists and educational resources.

The campus farm is central to HMS’s mission to provide an environment where learning and work are integrated within a community experience, engaging students’ intellectual, moral, and social development.

Hershey’s campus farm serves as small-scale community for students to practice real-life skills while benefiting from the integration of the farm with their academics, i.e., sciences, mathematics, and history. Timely and relevant lessons are also incorporated, such as energy, environment, water, and sustainability practices.

Founded in 1978, HMS serves over 250 students, offering a unique program at its 97-acre Huntsburg Campus. The program provides day and international boarding students with hands-on, real-world learning experiences, fostering growth in agriculture, sustainability, personal responsibility, and community.

“We’re grateful for this support, which helps us continue providing an exceptional, holistic education that prepares students for the future,” said Paula Leigh-Doyle, Head of Hershey Montessori School.

Roots Gala 2025

Roots Gala 2025

Mar 12, 2025 | Events, Featured Posts | 0 comments

Join us for a special spring evening celebrating education, community, and our children’s future. Enjoy the season’s beauty while gathering with friends, supporters, and passionate individuals who believe in the power of Montessori education.

At Hershey Montessori School, we nurture the roots of each child, providing them with the foundation of responsibility and independence. We offer opportunities that challenge and inspire, encouraging children to grow in ways that are authentic to them.

As Dr. Maria Montessori wisely said,

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”

Be part of an evening that will celebrate these gifts, while making a lasting impact on the future of our students and the community we serve.

 

Date: Friday, April 25, 2025

Doors Open: 6:00 pm

Location: Tall Oaks Resort and Event Center

9199 Chillicothe Rd, Kirtland, OH 44094

Early bird sales are OPEN!  Get your tickets at a discounted rate of $135 per person now through 3/25/2025.
Regular price tickets are $150 per person.

Purchase your tickets & find out more here: https://onecau.se/roots25

You may also support this event through sponsorship and auction item donations by contacting Yvonne Delgado Thomas at ythomas@hershey-montessori.org.

Summit for Education and Peace

Summit for Education and Peace

Oct 21, 2024 | Events, Featured Posts | 0 comments

Hershey Montessori Adolescent Community will be hosting The Summit for Education and Peace March 6-7, 2025. The Summit for Education and Peace is a day-and-a-half-long student-led and student-centered conference seeking to create collaboration and inquiry into topics related to education and peace. A special focus is the role of global medicine and how global response to health concerns impacts peace in the world.

Students will gather from numerous Montessori Middle School programs at the Hershey Montessori School Huntsburg Campus to share ideas, hear knowledgeable speakers, and connect socially as we address questions, such as:

  • How do pandemics and pathogens affect our lives, past and present?
  • How is global medicine a key element of creating a more peaceful world?
  • How do we educate to ‘increase the peace’ in the world?

The Summit will include keynote speakers, student presentations, social activities, workshops, and other ways to interact.

To learn more about the Summit, view or download the event brochure.

Accommodations can be made online by schools interested in participating. Inquiries may be made to Matt Sorrick, at msorrick@hershey-montessori.org or call our campus directly at 440-636-6290.

Virtual Info Session Series

Virtual Info Session Series

Oct 21, 2024 | Events, Featured Posts | 0 comments

Are you interested in learning more about our Middle and Upper School? This series of virtual information events will bring you greater clarity and provide you an opportunity to delve deeper into the understanding of our approach to education, its outcomes, and our campus offerings. Register for one or all of the following online events!

Middle & Upper School Virtual Event Schedule

November 5 – College & Career Preparation at Hershey
7 pm EST – Learn about our personalized approach that supports each student and their family as they prepare for life after graduation.

January 9 & 21 – Open Forum Q&A
7 pm EST – Ask the Panel about Hershey Montessori’s Middle & Upper School. The first Virtual on the 9th will include Hershey students and the second virtual on the 21st will include Debbie Guren and Heshey staff and. Ask your questions and hear what other parents and students are curious about.

February 12 & 25 – Boarding at Hershey
7 pm EST – Find out why our Boarding program is described as “at home with Hershey” as boarding students, parents, and residential guides share their knowledge and experience of this unique opportunity that students from around the world are taking part in.

March 11 – Production & Exchange
7 pm EST – A Key Component of Hershey Montessori’s Middle & Upper School. Learn how we build financial literacy and encourage entrepreneurialism in students while teaching them real-life skills through integrated academics and use of the campus farm.

April 16 – Student Outcomes, The Profound Value of a Hershey Education
7 pm EST – Join us for a panel presentation and discussion with current students, alumni, and our college and career partners. See firsthand the outcomes of an education that provides the roots of responsibility while encouraging the wings of freedom.

Register to Attend!

Hershey Montessori School Receives $300k Dekko Foundation Award

Hershey Montessori School Receives $300k Dekko Foundation Award

Oct 17, 2024 | Featured Posts, School News | 0 comments

For Immediate Release

October 16, 2024                                                                    

 

Contact: Yvonne Delgado-Thomas                                                                                                        

ythomas@hershey-montessori.org

440-357-0918 / 440-749-1124

 

Hershey Montessori School Receives $300k Dekko Foundation Award

 

Concord Township, OH, August 2024 — Hershey Montessori School is pleased to announce an award of $300,000 from The Dekko Foundation.  This generous grant will support Hershey’s strategic goals for “Rebuilding Capacity for Sustainability” over the next two years.

The Dekko Foundation’s mission is to foster children and young people’s knowledge, skills, and character, propelling them to self-sufficiency and economic freedom. The foundation is rooted in the belief that “Great things happen when adults step back to consider what young people need to grow and develop. Often, that deliberate act of reflection results in the most impactful outcomes.”

Dekko and Hershey align in this as is seen in Hershey’s Montessori approach to education. It is why, since its founding in 1978, Hershey Montessori School has been a sought-after school of choice for families in Northeast Ohio, and globally for adolescents since 2000.

Despite post-pandemic growth, bolstering enrollment and increasing retention will help meet the school’s long-term goals. Hershey accepts EdChoice Expansion Scholarships, offers financial aid options, OAIS scholarship tax credits, and more, making Hershey Montessori School more accessible to families from Ohio, across the U.S., and around the world.

Hershey Montessori School is grateful for the $300,000 Dekko Foundation award, and the continued generous support of The Hershey Foundation, the Hershey Family Foundation, and many individual donors. Every contribution, large or small, is invaluable. These gifts enable Hershey Montessori School to move toward economic sustainability while remaining focused on its vision: “Children and adolescents develop a strong sense of self, rooted in love for the environment and community, seamlessly transitioning from each stage of development through adulthood.”

 

About Hershey Montessori School

Grounded in the tradition of Dr. Maria Montessori for more than 45 years, Hershey Montessori provides beautiful Montessori environments where learning and work are integrated within a community experience, engaging intellectual, moral, and social development of children and adolescents from birth to eighteen years. Hershey Montessori School is comprised of two campuses in Northeast Ohio. The Concord Campus serves children from pre-k through sixth grade, and the Huntsburg Campus serves middle and upper school students. Hershey Montessori School added its Upper School program in 2015, making Hershey one of the first in the world to provide a full birth to 18-year curriculum with a boarding component and intentionally designed working farm. For more information, visit www.hershey-montessori.org.

 

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