Brigitta Hoeferle, director of Montessori Kinder in ClevelandCLEVELAND, Tenn. — Cleveland’s Montessori Kinder International School will move to a newer and larger home, close to downtown in the Spring Creek development.
Last week, the Cleveland Planning Commission approved a rezoning request that allows the private school to be built within the business portion of the mixed-used community.
“As a developer, I know we’re real excited just because what it will contribute to the overall concept of Spring Creek,” real estate developer Tom Cate said. “I’m proud of what they put together.”
Montessori Kinder’s planned 7,800-square-foot building will be on a wooded lot, which received praise from the school’s founder and director, Brigitta Hoeferle.
“We are in a business park, but we are still in nature, and we can still take the children out in nature and teach them hands-on,” Hoeferle said. “That’s what Montessori is all about — teaching them hands-on, what it is.”