Our Story
The mission of ETC® is to provide a unique synergy of services that benefit the Montessori and Applied Learning educational community as well as bringing awareness of the Montessori method to the general public. The educational community includes professionals, educators, scholars, students, post-service educators, paraprofessionals, teacher's aides, and preservice teachers. ETC® provides Montessori resources that allow schools to better implement educational practices while further enhancing their current Montessori curriculum with up-to-date, accurately researched, and pedagogically sound materials that are based on the Montessori theory, while being supported by current brain research findings.
Since our founding year of 2003, ETC® has since expanded it's reach, becoming a Total Montessori company with a goal of understanding and meeting the needs of the Montessori community. ETC® Montessori is the largest publisher of Montessori curriculum serving teachers and students from early childhood through middle school. ETC®Consulting continues to provide educators and schools with services that span their needs, from Montessori aligned curriculum, to best practices in and out of the classroom.Gulf Coast Montessori Teacher Education Center®, provides AMS credentialed educators in the field of 6-12. ETC® Digital in a partnership with Apple, has brought the innovative approach of technology into the Montessori classroom while implementing higher level thinking skills in a way that today's youth can fully experience and take advantage of. Finally, MontessoriViews, our newest addition to our portfolio, has a mission of bringing ETC content and awareness of Montessori practices to the general public.
Our commitment has and continues to be the Montessori child. Our team of award winning designers, seasoned Montessori educators that act both as consultants, writers and teacher educators, work closely together to ensure that everything we do, and produce, is not only of the highest quality, but also accurate, pedagogically appropriate, and esthetically pleasing to the child.
Our Core Purpose:
ETC Montessori exists to make contributions in the educational world that will improve and positively impact lives.
Our Core Values:
Nurturing and promulgation of Montessori pedagogy
Fanatical attention to detail and consistency
Unequivocal excellence in all aspects of the company
Creativity, imagination and innovation in education
