Nature’s Classroom Institute and Montessori School

Specialties

The goals of Nature’s Classroom Montessori are to foster independence and to support children in moving toward a mastery of self and the environment. Our classrooms are prepared Montessori environments designed to encourage children in their self-​directed discovery of the world. Interest-​based activities encourage children to develop a love of learning and trust in their own ability to learn.

Meet the Business Owner

Geoffrey B.

Business Owner

Geoffrey E. Bishop, hails from the bush in North West NSW, Australia. After his childhood spent on his family’s sheep station he went to an agricultural boarding school for five years, and then to University in both Sydney and Melbourne where he studied Horticulture and Landscape Architecture.

In 1996 Geoffrey started Nature’s Classroom Institute of Wisconsin, Inc. NCI is a residential environmental education program serving schools throughout the Midwest. NCI helps students understand the natural environment, participate in ecosystem exploration and study, and work together with their peers and teachers as a community. The program includes activities such as confidence-​building, group challenges, historical simulations, scientific explorations, and many more hands-​on academic lessons.

After developing the NCI curriculum, he formed Nature’s Classroom Montessori School that blends the core philosophy of Montessori with his environmental principles.