Head of the Class

If you’re considering a change to your child’s learning environment, reach out to these local schools and administrators who can help navigate that path and determine the best fit for your family.

Mission Bay Montessori Academy has been educating children from Preschool6th grade since 1968. Our Montessori hands-on approach instills a lifelong love of learning while developing social skills, emotional awareness, and independence. In addition to our strong language arts and math programs, our curriculum offers diverse enrichment classes integrated into our weekly curriculum with Chinese, Spanish, Art, Computers, Science, Music, Accelerated Math and P.E. We invite you to visit MBMA!

Open House for Preschool - Elementary

January 25th and March 7th 3:30 – 5 p.m.

Email info@mbmacademy.com to schedule a tour.

Ms. Tamara Goodwin, M.Ed School Principal Mission Bay Montessori Academy

Phone: (858) 457-5895

Email: tgoodwin@mbmacademy.com

2640 Soderblom Avenue

San Diego, CA 92122 www.mbmacademy.com

– Maria Montessori

The school combines the philosophies of Friedrich Froebel, Reggio Emilia, Maria Montessori, and Orff Schulwerk.

Caroline Rose, our Director, comes full circle as she was a Pre-Kindergartner at Del Mar Hills Nursery School, graduating in 1995! She began teaching at Del Mar Hills Nursery School after graduating from UCLA in 2011.

Owner Polly Trump has always been inspired to improve the quality of the curriculum and environment, and has attended two study tours in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Institute for Child Care Design; and collaborated with educators worldwide at the Working Forum on Nature Education. Polly began her career at Del Mar Hills Nursery School in 1977 as a teacher’s aide and was mentored by the founder of the school, Ursula Waddell.

Ursula built the educational foundation of the school upon the elements of Froebel (1782-1852), founder of Kindergarten, and graduated from the Froebel Seminar in Kassel, Germany in 1953. Polly Trump took ownership of the school in 1997 and is thrilled to have one of her previous students as the Director!

(858) 755-8338

13692 Mango Drive, Del Mar

Visit our website www.delmarhillsnurseryschool.com

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Alonso Nuñez is the executive director, and lead instructor of San Diego’s Little Fish Comic Book Studio, a nonprofit comic art studio and advocacy group. His work focuses on the continued placement and use of comics and comic-based curricula in schools and organizations. Alonso was a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in 2021, the most prestigious awards given for comics and graphic novels. He is currently working on his first fulllength graphic novel, Hatchepsut

An innovative UTK-12 public school in East Village developing students who are active, creative, empathetic, confident, and ready to lead. Students solve real world problems and experience daily enrichment including PE, STEAM, Design and Visual Arts, and Performing Arts. Enrollment is now open for 2024-25. Priority applications for our lottery are due by February 28! Accepting age 4 by Sept. 1, 2024 for UTK.

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Be sure to pick up the February issue of San Diego Family Magazine next month, featuring the annual Spring Education Guide!