America SCORES Milwaukee
America SCORES Milwaukee is the lead agency overseeing our after-school program in partnership with Milwaukee Recreation. America SCORES Milwaukee is committed to providing a healthy balance of learning and fun at the Riley Dual Language Montessori School Safe Place after-school program, which is staffed by caring adults from within the school, youth-serving agencies, and the community. America SCORES Milwaukee programs provide a support system that focuses on positive youth, family, and neighborhood development.
Girl Scouts of the USA
Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges. Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors, and millions of alums, Girl Scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them. Girl Scouts of the USA regional partner, Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast, brings session-based after-school programming to Riley Dual Language Montessori School.
Journey House
Founded in 1969 using a settlement house philosophy to serve the entire family (birth to twilight), Journey House empowers families living on Milwaukee’s Near Southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, workforce readiness, youth development, and family engagement programs. Riley students explore and team build using baseball diamonds and other facilities that Journey House helps maintain in nearby Baran Park.
Junior Achievement USA
Junior Achievement USA is the nation’s largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Riley students experience JA programming through Junior Achievement Wisconsin.
Nature’s Classroom Institute and Montessori School
Nature’s Classroom Institute and Montessori School is dedicated to enriching the lives of children, teachers, and parents by immersing them in educational adventures within the natural and agricultural world, including its nationwide Overnight Adventures, a three-to-five day experience where environmental education meets STREAM subjects. Riley upper elementary students participate in the overnight adventures program.
Playworks Wisconsin
In 2023, Playworks Wisconsin ensured more than 23,000 children in 64 elementary schools and youth serving organizations across Wisconsin, including Riley Dual Language Montessori School, experienced safe and healthy play, including over 700 educators and youth professionals trained statewide. Over 1,000 Wisconsin kids serve as Junior Coach student leaders on the playground by leading games and modeling positive sporting behavior for their peers.
Reflo
Annually, Reflo works with partners including Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the City of Milwaukee, the Fund for Lake Michigan, Community Design Solutions and others to support Milwaukee-area schools in an intensive, collaborative process to design and then redevelop greener, healthier schoolyards. Riley Dual Language Montessori School’s redeveloped schoolyard opened in 2023.
Each redevelopment project is tailored to the specific needs and enthusiasm of the school’s community but often involves replacing seas of asphalt with green infrastructure including bioswales, rain gardens, and trees as well as outdoor classrooms, improved recreational facilities and arts opportunities. Designs go beyond removing pavement to maximize benefits for communities, the environment, and local economy.
Smart Smiles
Ascension Smart Smiles is the largest provider of school-based oral health care in Wisconsin. The Smart Smiles program specializes in preventative oral health of children from birth through adolescence. Smart Smiles dental professionals make twice-yearly visits to Riley, providing free oral health education and screenings, fluoride treatments, placement of sealants, and more.
Urban Ecology Center
The Neighborhood Environmental Education Project (NEEP) engages classes through field trips to local green spaces that enrich the classroom curriculum. Urban Ecology Center educators engage students through hands-on activities, indoors and outdoors. Students may learn about local habitats, identifying plants, finding signs of animal life, or building forts with classmates! Rain or shine, snow or wind, every trip has a portion outdoors and is engaging for all students and parent chaperones. Urban Ecology Center has outerwear available to borrow so all participants may explore in any weather. There are three Urban Ecology Center locations; most schools partner with one less than two miles from their school. Riley students visit the Urban Ecology Center for field experiences.
Wisconsin Montessori Association
Established in 2010, the Wisconsin Montessori Association supports teachers, parents and Montessori schools in Wisconsin by advocating and informing stakeholders through professional development, school wide support services, conferences and parent education and advocacy.
Wisconsin Vision
Wisconsin Vision is the largest independently owned optical company in the Badger State, with 26 locations in 21 cities and one lens laboratory. Wisconsin Vision provides free, on-site vision screenings to our K4 students.