Our CEO, Dr. Jovan Wells, is a thoughtful and innovative Texas based leader in public education with Urban and Suburban experience. Throughout her distinguished career, Dr. Wells has received numerous local, state and national accolades. Dr. Wells has also worked closely with organizations such as the National Math and Science Initiative, the Texas Instruments Foundation to enhance STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) initiatives, and the American Montessori Society and the Shelton School to design high quality Montessori magnet programs.
At STEAMspark Montessori Experience, we strongly believe that smaller class sizes have the greatest long-term benefits for students. The smaller teacher-to-student ratios benefit students in many ways including individualized attention, a more focused classroom with fewer distractions, stronger peer-to-peer relationship building, greater participation and confidence in students, and a more personalized and differentiated learning experience for each student.
STEAMspark ensures that every Lead Guide in the classroom is a degreed and accomplished educator. This depth of knowledge and expertise that STEAMspark teachers possess enables student achievement not only during their time at STEAMspark, but also contributes to achievement throughout their educational journey. (University of Missouri-Columbia. ScienceDaily, 22 May 2018.)
STEAMspark Montessori Experience uses traditional Montessori aged groupings, 6 weeks to 18 months, 18 months to 36 months, and 36 months to 6 years old.
All environments have a planned uninterrupted work time from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. five days a week. This uninterrupted time allows the students to practice academic and character education skills, build concentration, and increase attention and stamina.
During this time, students choose Montessori works that are interesting and challenging to them. They receive new lessons from an AMS trained guide or assistant guide. The students are free to work at their own pace, level, and interests within the prepared environment. The prepared child-centered environment is organized with carefully designed materials which were created using brain research to help students be as successful as possible. The students take responsibility to care for and restore the environment on a regular basis. The school and class communities are respected for the peace and joy they both bring to all students, staff, and families involved at STEAMspark Montessori Experience.
Chef Faby, STEAMspark’s onsite Nutritional Chef, develops a menu of meals for students that are healthy, delicious and meet the daily nutritional goals of students. All dietary restrictions are accommodated at STEAMspark. Whether your family is gluten-free, vegan, or vegetarian. Our farm-to-table chef will prepare their breakfast, lunch, and snack from fresh, delicious, and nutritious ingredients.
Every single STEAMspark classroom is equipped with a dedicated variable refrigerant flow system (VRF). The VRF allows each room to filter independently and manages air independent of other rooms in the system. The advantage that the VRF provides, especially in the midst of the pandemic, is that it allows each unit to be self-contained and only circulate air within that specific classroom.
Beyond the profound health benefits that the VRF systems bring to the students of STEAMspark, the noiseless functionality make it the optimal system to be placed in our prepared environments for learning. The units provide no risk or disruption or distraction to the Montessori work cycles and concentrated learning of older students and are even quiet enough to appease even the most sensitive Nido sleeper.
STEAMspark utilizes small group literacy and numeracy enrichment groups with students. Highly-qualified Guides focus on individualized skills and strategies for each child through the use of fluid formative assessments and flexible group structures. This differentiated instruction provides systematic and comprehensive coverage of the strategies needed to move students to greater achievement in literacy and numeracy and overall success within the students educational journey.
