We believe:

1. Education is a shared responsibility which involves teachers, students, parents, and community.
2. Children have an innate drive to learn and explore, that is enhanced when their interests guide their learning.
3. The opportunity to learn music increases academic achievement.
4. Embracing various cultures widens the mind.
5. Children learn best in environments that facilitate different rates and styles of learning, active investigation, and problem-solving.
6. Supporting teachers' continuous growth as educators is critical to the ongoing success of our school.
7. Supporting parents in their primary role as teachers to their children helps ensure academic success.
8. Learning is enhanced when students communicate, demonstrate, and apply their knowledge in a variety of realistic, creative, and constructive ways.

Our Purpose:
To offer a choice to parents and students in areas of teaching methodologies, classroom structure, and assessments different from other schools in the district.

To forge strong parent, community, and school partnerships to enhance student learning.

To increase opportunities for early music and piano keyboarding instruction.

To provide more individualization in how children's learning plans are being developed.

To provide more student, parent, and teacher control of content and curriculum.

To provide greater flexibility in scheduling, school, and classroom design.

Daily Class Routine:
Alliance offers a Montessori program, including the Montessori prepared environment; hands-on, sequenced-learning materials; student-centered classrooms; individualized instruction; multi-age student groupings; and  uninterrupted blocks of work time.

The kindergarten program follows Montessori early childhood practices. It is designed to meet the unique developmental needs of kindergarteners and build foundational academics, concentration, independence, and coordination.

Students in the elementary program (grades 1-5)  learn from each other in multi-age classrooms. Grades 1, 2, and 3 are grouped together, as are grades 4 and 5. Teachers usually have students for more than one year, getting to know them very well and closely monitoring their progress through the curriculum.

Students at Alliance participate in special academics similar to other Neenah Elementary schools, including art, physical education, computer lab, library, and guidance. Piano keyboarding is incorporated into the curriculum instead of choral music.

In a typical day at Alliance, students spend half the day working in groups in the classroom and at various special academic activities. For the other half of the day, children have independent work time, typically an uninterrupted block of about 2 1/2 hours. During this time, students work on projects and materials appropriate to their level in a somewhat independent manner.

Students are admitted into the building at 7:50 each morning. Class time at Alliance runs from 8:00 AM to 3:05 PM, Monday through Thursday, and from 8:00 AM to 12:00 noon on Fridays. Days off and early dismissals (such as for professional learning or end of quarter) are the same as other Neenah elementary schools.