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  • The Six Essential Elements of Montessori Preschool-Kindergarten

    The Six Essential Elements of Montessori Preschool-Kindergarten

    03/18/2025

    The Montessori approach to early childhood education provides a rich, developmentally appropriate environment where children thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. At Oneness-Family School, our Preschool-Kindergarten program is built around six essential elements that guide our youngest students on a journey of self-discovery and lifelong learning.

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  • Our School Values

    Our School Values

    02/04/2025

    In view of the disturbing and rapidly changing events following the US election, which we know are impacting individuals in our community right now, we feel it is important to make a statement on behalf of our board, administration, and faculty.

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  • The Top Ten Reasons Why Montessori is Successful

    The Top Ten Reasons Why Montessori is Successful

    01/23/2024

    I have been involved in Montessori education for over 35 years. As the founder of Oneness-Family School and as a board member of the International Montessori Council, I have had a chance to see the benefits of the Montessori approach not only at the Oneness-Family School but also at many Montessori schools around the country…

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  • Celebrating United Nations Day

    Celebrating United Nations Day

    10/23/2023

    School Founder Andrew Kutt’s remarks on the occasion of the 2023 Oneness-Family School United Nations Day celebration.

    Categories: Special Events
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  • The Oneness-Family School Wheel

    The Oneness-Family School Wheel

    08/31/2023

    In honor of Dr. Maria Montessori’s birthday and her far-reaching legacy, I’d like to share three quotes representing ideas that form the three essential pillars of the Oneness-Family School curriculum: Academy (understanding the world as an interconnected whole), Self-Discovery (discovering who one is as a person), and Manifestation (sharing one’s gifts with the world). These…

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  • Celebrating the 2023-2024 School Year!

    Celebrating the 2023-2024 School Year!

    06/05/2023

    As the school year draws to a close, I want to send a big thank you to our community for a fantastic year. Together, we have shared so many special moments, watched our students take giant leaps forward, and accomplished many new milestones.

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  • National Poetry Month

    National Poetry Month

    04/18/2023

    My relationship with poetry started early in my life. Maybe as young as seven or eight, I remember writing a specific poem for each family member at Christmas.

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  • On Ukraine

    On Ukraine

    03/01/2022

    The current war in Ukraine has been a great shock and it cries out for a response from all peace-loving people of the world.

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  • The Gift of Presence

    The Gift of Presence

    02/09/2022

    When I was a child my mother used to take me into the forest to look for edible wild mushrooms. She had learned which mushrooms were safe to eat from her older sisters and brothers—and who knows where they learned it!

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  • Onward and Upward!

    Onward and Upward!

    01/10/2022

    My favorite professor at Assumption College, Thomas Puchalsky, taught American and European Literature. The most engaging and inspiring teacher I’ve ever had, on weekends he’d host soirees where we cooked collective meals, read poetry in a variety of languages, and listened to opera.

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Oneness-Family Montessori School

  • 6701 Wisconsin Avenue · Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
  • 10 minute walk from the Bethesda Metro
  • (301) 652-7751

Oneness-Family Montessori High School

  • 9411 Connecticut Ave · Kensington, Maryland  20895
  • (240) 383-7655

Family is not measured by the number of chairs around the dining table, but by the names we give to those who care for us. It’s not the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the shows we watch or the games we play.

Family is our love and mutual respect for each other. Forging a community that extends to the home of every student. We find family by coming together in shared moments. Offering celebration in triumph, compassion in sadness, guidance and wisdom for every semester.

We believe family is central to everything we do because humanity is at its best when we work together.

Welcome to Oneness-Family School.

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Serving students from preschool through high school in Chevy Chase, MD since 1988.