Our Vision
Divine Human Potential
by understanding the
Law of Life;
As One Understands,
All will Understand
Sustainability
Our Guiding Principals for the Environment
Inherent in the Montessori approach to education is the "prepared environment" as an essential tool to promote the auto-education of the student. Also inherent within the Montessori philosophy is the idea that children should develop a "global vision" and an understanding that all things are connected and interrelated. Because of these ideas, we believe that our sustainable guidelines and integrated curriculum should direct our operating strategies and development in a way that students and facilitators can utilize the facilities and grounds as learning tools within an expanded learning environment. Our location must provide opportunities for us all to fall in love with the natural world, learn about Earth's natural cycles, and gain an understanding of humanity's relationship with Earth's life and it's inhabitants.
~ adopted from the Montessori School of Maui
Study on Guidelines of Sustainability
On Sustainability
In a broad sense is defined as the capacity to endure. For humans it is the potential for long term maintenance of wellbeing, which in turn depends on the wellbeing of the natural world and the responsible use of natural resources.
New World Leadership found it important to model the organization's values by finding a location that embodied the developmental qualities of its construction and also incorporated the use of energy efficient systems and appliances.
New World Leadership Children's Academy utilizes these strategies to integrate the teachings of nature's life cycles, love and respect for self and the environment and skills that will help them to sustain the environment in which they live.
Components of Curriculum
We feel that in order to understand what sustainability truly is, both from a teaching and learning perspective, this concept should gradually become part of our daily reality over the years. We also think that a 'sustainability curriculum' should not only unfold slowly, but it should also recognize the stages through which each child's relationship with the natural world progresses. Finally, we see that our sustainability curriculum - along with any other curriculum - is best when it is experience-based and internally-driven by the learner.
Our beliefs about how to best introduce sustainability to children is comprised through three core components: 1) consideration for the developmental stage through which children progress in the world around them, 2) the use of stories and 3) the use of emerging questions (inquiry). So, in the primary classroom there is strong emphasis placed on the learning of love and respect for the environment through the teaching and use of empathy.
For more information on our approach to teach Sustainability, follow our blog site at:
New World Leadership Children's Academy - Blog
For additional information on Guidelines for Sustainability and Sustainability Consulting see: