About Fomento Schools
Building Schools in Partnership With Families
At Fomento Schools, we believe education begins in the family.
Parents are the first and most important educators of their children. Long before a child enters a classroom, the family is where habits are formed, values are lived, character begins to take shape, and the foundations for intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development are established.
A school can have a profound influence on a child’s life, but it can never replace the depth, continuity, and formative power of the home. This is why we believe the best schools are not built apart from families, but rather crafted in close collaboration with them.
We see our role as creating and preserving schools where parents are respected as the primary educators of their children, where teachers work in partnership with families, and where the school’s role is not merely to provide instruction, but to support the full development of the child.
Our View of Education
We believe a truly good education forms the whole person. Children need more than academic preparation. They need an environment that helps them grow in independence, responsibility, concentration, order, courtesy, self-mastery, curiosity, and love of learning.
For this kind of formation to take root, the school and the family must work together. When the values lived at home and the values supported at school are in sync, children are more likely to grow with confidence, balance, inner strength and character.
This partnership does not mean the school takes over the role of the family. It means the school supports the family’s mission. Parents choose the educational path that reflects their hopes, aspirations, and vision for their children. When they entrust a school with part of that task, the school not only receives that trust with honor and humility, but accepts the shared responsibility with resolve and conviction.
Why Montessori
The Montessori approach aligns deeply with this view of education. True Montessori education respects the dignity of the child, the importance of the prepared environment, the child’s natural drive toward independence, and the formative role of purposeful work. It sees education not simply as the transfer of information, but as the development of the whole human being.
In a Montessori classroom, children are not passive recipients of instruction. They are active participants in their own development. They learn through movement, exploration, repetition, concentration, and discovery. The guide observes carefully, prepares intentionally, and supports each child’s growth without unnecessarily interrupting the child’s work.
This approach requires patience, discipline, training, and fidelity. It also requires a school culture that understands Montessori as a way of seeing the child, and more than a set of materials or marketing language.
Our Purpose and Commitment
Fomento Schools exists to help protect and extend that kind of Montessori education through the creation and preservation of schools where children are prepared for life. This means building schools that honor parents, respect children, support teachers, and remain faithful to the deeper purpose of education.
Every school in the Fomento Schools system is built around a simple conviction: Parents do not hand over their responsibility when they choose a school. They invite the school to assist them in one of their most important duties. They are protagonists in the formation of their children, and our role is to collaborate with them respectfully, professionally, and faithfully.
Children deserve environments where they are known, observed, respected, and guided. They deserve classrooms that support independence rather than dependence, concentration rather than distraction, and purposeful work rather than passive entertainment. They deserve adults who understand that the early years are not simply preparation for elementary school, but represent the foundational years for the formation of the person.
We believe all families should have access to schools that stand with them, and this belief shapes the way teachers, administrators, and owners understand their work. We believe educators deserve environments where their work is supported by a clear mission and strong standards. And we believe school ownership can be a meaningful vocation when it is directed toward the formation of children and service to families.
The Relationship Between Fomento Schools and Pearlily Montessori®
Fomento Schools is the franchising and school stewardship organization behind the Pearlily Montessori® System. The Pearlily Montessori® school in Dublin, Ohio is modeled after this system. As an authentic Montessori preschool, the Dublin school stands as the prototype school for the system: a living, operating example of the educational philosophy, classroom environment, family partnership, staffing expectations, operational practices, and school culture that Fomento seeks to replicate and preserve.
