About the Atlas

The Montessori Atlas is a Montessori Makers Group project.

We built it because the field deserved a complete map and did not have one. Membership directories show you their members. Voluntary databases show you who volunteered. Families, educators, schools, and researchers were left assembling the picture from fragments, and the schools most likely to fall through the cracks were small, independent, and public programs, the very corners of the field where the work is often bravest.

Stewarding a commons comes with obligations, so we name ours plainly.

Every listing is free, forever. No school will ever pay to appear in the Atlas, to claim its listing, or to correct its information. A map with a toll booth is not a map.

Schools own their information. A claimed listing belongs to the school that claimed it. Schools decide what they share, they can correct the record at any time, and every piece of data carries its source in the open.

Search results cannot be bought. No commercial relationship with Montessori Makers Group, past, present, or future, influences where any school appears or how it is displayed. The Atlas does not adjudicate who is really Montessori. It shows verifiable attributes and trusts you to judge.

Montessori Makers Group carries the cost of building and maintaining the Atlas because a field this good at preparing environments for children deserves one prepared for itself.

Questions, corrections, and challenges are welcome at atlas@montessorimakers.org.