In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend and collaborator Andrew Kutt, founder and Board Chair of Oneness-Family Montessori School in Chevy Chase, MD—a school that mattered deeply to my family during my kids’ early years.
Andrew shares how his path from world literature and meditation to Montessori training led him to open the school in 1988 with just seven students, and how it’s grown into a multi-generational community with alumni around the world.
We unpack the school’s three-part model—Academy, Self-Discovery, and Manifestation—and how Oneness is responding to today’s “polycrisis” world with new upper-grade initiatives, including courses on the history of capitalism and Being Human in the age of AI, plus a push to build an endowment for long-term sustainability.
Learn more: onenessfamily.org
Contact Andrew: andrew@onenessfamily.org
Andrew Kutt Bio:
Andrew Kutt is the Founder and Board Chair of Oneness-Family Montessori School and a lifelong Montessori educator based in Bethesda, Maryland. He’s also a songwriter, recording artist, and poet.
Driven by a mission to help build a more harmonious and just world, Andrew empowers children to discover and share their gifts while offering his own through education and the arts. Inspired by Maria Montessori, he listens deeply to students—trusting their agency, imagination, and capacity to carry the hope and creative solutions the future requires.
