Sadula Rose Montessori School was born out of a full-circle experience that began in Buffalo, NY over 20 years ago when I was a parent looking for a school for my children. I met a beautiful-spirited Montessori educator who eventually taught my children in a Montessori inspired environment. It was from this experience that my views around education changed, I began to realize that the "traditional" way of teaching my children was not the only way, nor was it fully serving the needs of my children. In 2006, I left journalism to become a Montessori teacher myself. I often dreamed of starting my own Montessori school.  This vision started from the pangs that I felt in my heart knowing that our youngest children due to financial resources could not access a high quality Montessori education in underserved communities much like Buffalo. The passion behind the WHY is what drove me to become a trailblazer and catalyst for change? Montessori started in the impoverished towns of Italy, but now had become a space where only the mostly wealthy could obtain the benefits that Montessori provided. I found out about the opportunity that The Wildflower Foundation offered visionaries like myself the help needed to begin to bring the vision of opening a school alive. I decided to take this dream and vision back to Buffalo, my home town, a place that nurtured me in my youth. Also a place that showed a huge need.  Sadula Rose Montessori is a sacred space that aspires to wholistically serve our children, allows them to be fully seen in all their beauty, and reverence the child's innate genius that they are born with. This journey for the past couple of years has been a labor of love to bring a unique Montessori experience that is authentic, and culturally relevant to our community- this is Sadula Rose Montessori School.