College Counseling and Hershey Farm

EARLY COLLEGE COUNSELING PROVIDES PROPER PREPARATION AND PEACE OF MIND

Hershey’s Adolescent Community participates in a highly individualized college guidance counseling program led by our expert College Counselor, Valerie Raines. Beginning in tenth grade, Valerie works closely with each individual student and family to identify colleges that are the best fit academically, programmatically, culturally, socially, and financially. This aspect of our Upper Schooler’s academic journey has become invaluable to Hershey students and their families as it allows them to make sound, well informed decisions regarding their college career and area of study. This highly specialized program has proven so invaluable that we will be extending it to all incoming freshman beginning in the fall of 2021.

Valerie Raines College Guidance Counselor

THE PURPOSEFUL FARM AT HERSHEY

Maria Montessori believed a farm school setting is an ideal condition for adolescents to learn the lessons required of this age. Incorporating a farm as a prepared environment provides adolescents daily opportunities to handle adult-like responsibilities by giving them real-life experience in social organization, solving the community’s challenges and addressing its fundamental needs— including those that are social, environmental, or physical in nature. Students also learn how to provide one’s food, maintain one’s shelter, how to participate in economic endeavors, and to interact with the natural world. The power of such an environment to engage and guide adolescents toward adult-level cultural understanding and practical experience is invaluable preparation that sets Hershey students apart from their peers.

CONCORD CAMPUS (BIRTH - 12 YEARS) 10229 PROUTY RD. CONCORD, OH 44077 P (440) 357-0918 HUNTSBURG CAMPUS (12 - 18 YEARS) 11530 MADISON RD. HUNTSBURG, OH 44046 P (440) 636-6290

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Dylan Crowell Development Assistant dcrowell@hershey-montessori.org 440-357-0918 ext. 64 Lakisha Wingard Director of Admissions lwingard@hershey-montessori.org 440-357-0918 10229 PROUTY ROAD CONCORD TWP, OH 44077