“Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world.”
Nestled on an idyllic four acre property at the border of Cedar Park and Leander, Fulcrum School offers a unique program that combines Montessori pedagogy with a highly intentional, highly intellectual curriculum.
At Fulcrum, your child acquires the knowledge, skills, experiences, and attitudes that offer maximum leverage in the pursuit of a life well lived. We reject both the traditional emphasis on “academics” and compliance, and the progressive impulse to eschew standards and scholarship. We valorize a mindset of purposeful thought and action, and the joys that it brings.
Our program sets conditions necessary for a child to achieve a lifetime of health, wealth, and happiness. From the design of the physical environment and experiential program elements, to the choice of every aspect and feature of the curriculum, to our elevated approach to motivation by inspired inquiry, to our commitment to fully individualized personal growth plans, we furnish an environment that will support your child in becoming his or her best self.
Core Principles
Optimize for agency
We live in a world where a high-agency mindset opens infinite opportunities, and the rewards for authentic self-reliance have never been higher.
Our programs, based on the world-changing Montessori pedagogy, support children in their work to develop into purposeful, self-directed individuals who see the whole world as their classroom, and earn the hard-won competencies to make the most of it.
Knowledge is leverage
The breadth of challenges and opportunities in modern life are best navigated by applying the knowledge and wisdom of the ages, and to see that wisdom in all its new and varied forms.
Our program helps children systematically develop mastery over the core disciplines—literature, language arts, math, science, history—that form the fundamental lenses through which capable adults see and act in the world.
Individualized academic plans guide the learning journey
A proper educational system is a unity between universal laws of human nature, and the unique, individual nature of each child.
We work closely with you as parents, and with your children, to apply powerful pedagogical principles to your unique child and family. Your goals matter. Your child’s goals matter. We are here to support each individual on the path to the particular happy and successful life that is his or her birthright.