Montessori Education for Today’s Adolescent: an Event at Oneness-Family School
The Future of Learning is Here:
The Future of Learning: A New Vision for High School
January 29, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Oneness-Family High School – 9411 Connecticut Avenue
What if high school wasn’t about checking boxes and pressured achievement, but about preparing young people to thrive as adults in a complex, interconnected world?
Join us for an evening exploring what education looks like when it centers on adolescent development—when students launch real businesses instead of just reading about economics, when they address social issues through community work instead of only studying them in textbooks, and when they develop critical thinking and agency through authentic projects that matter.
Whether you’re questioning the traditional model or simply curious about alternatives, you’ll leave with a fresh vision for what’s possible when we design learning around who teenagers are becoming rather than what systems demand they memorize. Come ready to reimagine high school alongside other families seeking something different for their children.
Save The Date!
Our Future of Learning event will be held on
January 29th from 6 – 7:30 pm
High School Campus, 9411 Connecticut Ave
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Quote: Elise Van Leer (’13)
One of my main main takeaways from Oneness was developing a true curiosity about life and love for discovery.
One of my main main takeaways from Oneness was developing a true curiosity about life and love for discovery. From an early age, the Montessori approach taught me to be a hands-on learner and ask questions that matter.
I think it is what guided me toward science, which is an experimental field where new knowledge is always being created and old knowledge is being turned over. If I hadn’t been encouraged by the environment at Oneness, I wouldn’t have had such an intrinsic and sustaining desire to keep asking questions and always to remain a skeptic. I studied pharmacology at McGill University and feel fortunate to call on principles that were taught to me early on — compassion, creativity, and compromise — that are sometimes neglected in the hard sciences but are nonetheless so important. I will keep these principles foremost in mind as I study medicine at Emory University.
As for my favorite OFS memory, the one that stands out is traveling to London for a class trip in the 8th grade and jumping on the beds in the townhouse where we stayed while screaming along to “The Lion King.” It was a truly gleeful moment.
— Elise Van Leer, Student 2002-2013, Grades PS to 8
Our High School Curriculum
Through learning by doing, engaging with the community around them, and following their academic interests, our students are poised to become highly skilled in areas necessary to thrive in the complex 21st century.
Our Admissions Process
At Oneness-Family School we value relationships. Therefore, we place a lot of importance on the admissions process: It is our first opportunity to get to know a potential new family just as it is the chance for a prospective family to learn more about the school.