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Their Mission In the spring of 2019, a group of Twin Cities educators, community members, and parents met to imagine a school grounded in Montessori pedagogy, accessible to families of all incomes, that places the needs of the children first. Monarch Montessori School opened its first Children's House environment in St. Paul, Minnesota for children ages 33 months through 6 years of age on September 8th, 2020. They are committed to providing a safe and healthy in-person educational option for families and offer tuition assistance to children of essential workers.

AT THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL, OUR MISSION TO EDUCATE CHILDREN IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN A COMMITMENT TO ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, DIVERSITY, AND COMMUNITY. WE ENGAGE, CHALLENGE AND SUPPORT CHILDREN AS THEY DEVELOP THE SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE TO ACHIEVE EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS. WE NURTURE THE WHOLE CHILD THROUGH A THOUGHTFUL, BALANCED CURRICULUM. WE INTENTIONALLY BUILD A DIVERSE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, AND WE VALUE, RESPECT, AND EDUCATE OURSELVES ABOUT ITS COMPLEXITIES AND GIFTS. WE FOSTER THE GROWTH OF OUR STUDENTS SO THEY WILL BECOME RESPONSIBLE, CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF THE WORLD WHO STAND UP FOR THEIR BELIEFS, EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS, AND CARE ABOUT THE RIGHTS AND FEELINGS OF OTHERS.

Our Mission: Sweet Pea Montessori collaborates with families to offer quality infant and toddler Montessori environments. We strive for community, equity, and connections with nature. Purpose: Sweet Pea Montessori School is a diverse community of infants, toddlers, their families, and Montessori-trained caregivers. It provides children with a loving and and developmentally appropriate environment to learn and grow in while at school and supports families through cooperation and parent education. It serves as a model and offers mentorship to those interested in pursuing Montessori training. Vision: Our vision is to collaborate with and support parents in their endeavor to raise happy, healthy children who appreciate and care for nature. We wish to be a model that brings community and

MWPCCC is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is to create, manage, and sustain developmentally appropriate, high quality, available, culturally-sensitive pre-school, childcare, and family support services. We support families with young children and infants. We prepare children for kindergarten and a lifetime of learning by offering them an emergent curriculum, nurturing staff, and a commitment to children's social well-being in an environment that respects and celebrates diversity. Our target population is an economically and ethnically diverse group of children. We are committed to serving as many low-income/subsidized children as possible, and in fact, often we have absorbed those costs in order to make sure that that we do not turn families for lack of funds.

The mission of Patterson Park Public Charter School is to provide a community-centered learning environment that values diversity and embraces a whole child approach to develop well-educated citizens. Our Vision Life-long learners, healthy families, and strong neighborhoods. Our Values: PPPCS is a community-founded school driven to academic excellence and devoted to a whole child philosophy in a diverse setting. We believe in … Challenging every child academically using interdisciplinary, thematic, hands-on instruction that fosters creativity, critical thinking and a life-long love of learning. Developing character in our young people by cultivating civility, perseverance, resilience and shared responsibility. Partnering with our broader community to support student success, healthy families and strong neighborhoods. Our Motto The City is Our Classroom; the World is Our Future.

The mission of Blythedale Children’s Hospital is to improve the health and quality of life of children. Founded in 1891 and based in Westchester County, Blythedale serves over 2,000 children in the New York City region each year, treating children of all ages and backgrounds through inpatient care, outpatient and day hospital services, and community-based therapy. More than two-thirds of our inpatients are from low-income households in New York City, and we serve all families regardless of their ability to pay.  Our multidisciplinary team has the expertise to improve the outlook for children who have a wide range of medical conditions and physical trauma, such as brain injuries, cancer, cerebral palsy, organ transplants, ventilator dependency, burn recovery, and rare diseases that no other specialty hospital in New York is equipped to handle. Blythedale is also the only children’s hospital in New York State with its own public school district on site, ensuring that our young patients can experience childhood in as normal a way as possible.