Garrett Heights Elementary Middle School is a PreK-8 school serving 389 students in the Lauraville neighborhood of Northeast Baltimore. The school leadership and community have rallied around a shared vision to transform Garrett Heights into a public Montessori school. A first summer of training for teachers began in 2016, and the school has continued to build the Montessori program up from the early grades. This grant provided funds to continue Montessori training for 30 instructional staff members and to recruit Montessori trained teachers.