Kalpavriksh Montessori Community School was started under a different name in the year 2011  by Shri Vathsan Krishnan, an engineer-entrepreneur concerned about the lack of meaningful education opportunities for children around Anna Nagar. The school was set up in Anna Nagar West under the guidance of Ms Vishnu Priya, a Montessori teacher-trainer.

 

In the year 2016, when he wished to return to Bangalore, the parents and teachers of the school saw an opportunity to convert a business – albeit with a service motive – into a self-sustaining, cooperative effort to provide developmental-phase appropriate learning environments and opportunities for their children, based on the Montessori method. Parents, teachers and other concerned individuals decided to come together to mobilize resources to re-equip and take over the ownership and management of the school.

 

Kalpavriksh is now owned and managed by the Montessori Community Initiative, a public charitable trust. We are an IMC recognised school with IMTC trained staff. Currently, there are children aged 2 years and upwards.

 

The school continues to grow along with its children. We have adhered to Dr Maria Montessori’s philosophy that education is not something which the teacher does, but a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.