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Harmony Montessori & Forest School includes nature education, exploration, and discovery as part of its daily experience. The program uses nature as a tool throughout its curriculum, with studies informed by the Earth’s seasons, plants, and creatures. Children in all three programs—Young Child Community, Harmony Montessori, and Harmony Forest School—engage with the natural world as part of their learning.
Harmony Montessori & Forest School began in 2004 in Wilana Anderson’s home in Sausalito, moved to Shell Road in Mill Valley in 2005, opened at the Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary in August 2018, created Harmony Forest School in 2024, and added the Young Child Community in 2025. The teaching team includes staff with AMI Montessori and Waldorf Early Childhood training, advanced Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and backgrounds as herbalists, outdoor educators, musicians, and artists, and all staff meet licensing criteria for Livescan background checks, CPR, and Mandated Reporter training. The leadership and teaching team includes Owner/Director Wilana Anderson; Harmony Forest School Program Lead Mia Ciccarelli; Harmony Montessori Primary Program Lead Teacher Aarti Jesrani; Young Child Community Lead Teacher Alyssa Conklin Moore; teachers Kevin Anderson, Paige A. Anderson, Samantha Glocker, Olivia Sorrells, Sage Ryan, Chloe Corsini, and Vera Gekov; and Office Manager Joy Latimer. The school holds CCLD Facility # 214005446.
The mission of Harmony Montessori & Forest School is to cultivate a deep appreciation of and connection to the natural world and its preservation, using nature as a tool throughout the curriculum. The program states that the Earth, including her seasons, plants, and creatures, informs its studies, and that it aims to nurture children to be kind, respectful, responsible, and contributing members of their community. Harmony describes its environments as nurturing and respectful to the child, with each child valued individually and free to learn independently at their own pace, and it invites children to develop a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. The school states that it aims to cultivate in children a deep connection to the planet and a desire to protect it, honors natural rhythms of development and the innate wisdom within every child, and views education as a journey of discovery guided by curiosity, independence, and joy. Harmony describes all of its environments as woven together by an intention to nurture the whole child—body, mind, and spirit—and to help each one discover their own harmony within.
Harmony shares a home and has an agreement with the Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary, whose mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems for the benefit of humanity and biodiversity. Through a partnership with Harmony Land Caretakers, portions of the property have been restored by clearing areas once overgrown with invasive wild plum and poison oak to protect and nurture California coastal live oaks and to create a basecamp for the Forest School. The Forest School extends the program’s stated respect for the child into the wider world among oaks, mud puddles, and open sky, with daily journeys along winding trails through redwoods and coastal oaks down to a sandy shore and rocky “Barnacle Beach,” passing through homes, hunting grounds, and nesting grounds of hawks, great horned owls, pelicans, quail, and mallards visiting the seasonal pond. A testimonial associated with the program is the quote, “Harmony helps small things grow…” — Sallust.
Last updated August 16, 2026.
Harmony Montessori & Forest School began in 2004 in Wilana Anderson’s home in Sausalito, moved to Shell Road in Mill Valley in 2005, opened at the Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary in August 2018, created Harmony Forest School in 2024, and added the Young Child Community in 2025. The teaching team includes staff with AMI Montessori and Waldorf Early Childhood training, advanced Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and backgrounds as herbalists, outdoor educators, musicians, and artists, and all staff meet licensing criteria for Livescan background checks, CPR, and Mandated Reporter training. The leadership and teaching team includes Owner/Director Wilana Anderson; Harmony Forest School Program Lead Mia Ciccarelli; Harmony Montessori Primary Program Lead Teacher Aarti Jesrani; Young Child Community Lead Teacher Alyssa Conklin Moore; teachers Kevin Anderson, Paige A. Anderson, Samantha Glocker, Olivia Sorrells, Sage Ryan, Chloe Corsini, and Vera Gekov; and Office Manager Joy Latimer. The school holds CCLD Facility # 214005446.
The mission of Harmony Montessori & Forest School is to cultivate a deep appreciation of and connection to the natural world and its preservation, using nature as a tool throughout the curriculum. The program states that the Earth, including her seasons, plants, and creatures, informs its studies, and that it aims to nurture children to be kind, respectful, responsible, and contributing members of their community. Harmony describes its environments as nurturing and respectful to the child, with each child valued individually and free to learn independently at their own pace, and it invites children to develop a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. The school states that it aims to cultivate in children a deep connection to the planet and a desire to protect it, honors natural rhythms of development and the innate wisdom within every child, and views education as a journey of discovery guided by curiosity, independence, and joy. Harmony describes all of its environments as woven together by an intention to nurture the whole child—body, mind, and spirit—and to help each one discover their own harmony within.
Harmony shares a home and has an agreement with the Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary, whose mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems for the benefit of humanity and biodiversity. Through a partnership with Harmony Land Caretakers, portions of the property have been restored by clearing areas once overgrown with invasive wild plum and poison oak to protect and nurture California coastal live oaks and to create a basecamp for the Forest School. The Forest School extends the program’s stated respect for the child into the wider world among oaks, mud puddles, and open sky, with daily journeys along winding trails through redwoods and coastal oaks down to a sandy shore and rocky “Barnacle Beach,” passing through homes, hunting grounds, and nesting grounds of hawks, great horned owls, pelicans, quail, and mallards visiting the seasonal pond. A testimonial associated with the program is the quote, “Harmony helps small things grow…” — Sallust.
Last updated August 16, 2026.
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