Osato Ojofeitimi has a strong professional background in Education and Science. She is a passionate educator whose leadership approach is deeply rooted in the global, collaborative, and facilitative nature of the Montessori pedagogy. Osato has more than 26 years of teaching and administrative experience. She has a warm dedication to each child in her care.

Osato has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Chemistry, a Master’s degree in Environmental Chemistry as well as a Master’s degree in Analytical chemistry with a GPA of 3.9. She also received the prestigious Association Montessori Internationale (A.M.I.) Primary Montessori Diploma and a Master’s degree in Primary Montessori Education and in Early Childhood Education from Washington Montessori Institute and Loyola University Maryland with a 3.7 GPA. as well as an Association Montessori Internationale (A.M.I.) Elementary Montessori Diploma and a Master’s degree in Elementary Montessori Education from the Southwest Institute of Montessori Studies, Arizona, and Loyola University Maryland with a 3.8 GPA. She has many years of training in educational theory and methods of providing a well-prepared learning environment with freedom and discipline within safe limits.

Osato’s training in Montessori education specializes in children from 2+ to 12+ years of age. She has vast teaching experience of over 26 years, Osato has taught in various capacities in elementary schools, educational institutions, and establishments. She has taught as a chemistry college professor at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida, as a high school teacher, an elementary teacher, a Montessori teacher, and a preschool/kindergarten teacher in Nigeria, Florida, and the DMV metro area. She held her most recent teaching positions as an Instructional Coach, Mentor Teacher, and Lead teacher at a private Montessori school in South Beach, Miami, Florida, a public Montessori school in the District of Columbia, Washington D.C and the only Public Montessori School in the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

Osato is rated “Highly Effective” with a 95% effectiveness composite score which is the highest teaching instructional effectiveness rating available in the public school sector. Osato is also level 6 Maryland State Child Care Credentialed, the highest recognition level attainable that recognizes child care providers by experience, educational level, professional activities that contribute to quality child care and the advancement of education, and for exceeding the requirements of Maryland State licensing regulations in Maryland. Now she proudly runs her own Montessori school in Maryland as the Administrative Head and Founder.

Osato has built up an arsenal of unique ideas, enrichment curriculums, and experience. Parents have continuously commended Osato for her love, support, guidance, consistency, and daily dedication to unlocking the potential of every child in her care.

Many of her students have moved on to great success, accepted into higher grade levels than their actual age grade levels in private and public schools due to exceptional academic performances/advancements, attending schools for the Highly Gifted, Center for Enriched Studies, honors schools, and developing extraordinary talents.

Osato resonates on the premise that,

“We must support as much as possible the child’s desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.”

- Dr. Maria Montessori.

Osato strongly believes that a Montessori education can bear fruit in your child but it takes a responsive and greatly dedicated teacher with kindness, love, and patience and a well-prepared environment with didactic materials inbuilt with the proper foundational keys to release the “whole child”.

Osato’s expertise and professionalism ensure that your child gets an authentic Montessori experience while getting the most out of Prime’s educational programs; and attention to his or her social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and creative needs. Osato is truly excited for you to see your child with time and patience reach new heights as he or she learns, plays, and grows intellectually at Prime Foundation Montessori.

In addition to her professional ties to Montessori, Osato is an avid reader, researcher, and artist, enjoys movies and traveling, and is a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Osato enjoys living in North Potomac with her husband, Akin, and her three sons who all attended Montessori Schools.