Nurturing Montessori Schools
Every Step Of The Way
OUR STORY: A Vision to Simplify Montessori School Management
Clever Education Solutions was founded in 2020 by Dominique Mouthon, a longtime Montessori educator and former Head of School, and her husband and business partner, Serge Mouthon. Dominique had spent decades inside Montessori schools and knew firsthand how much invisible administrative work falls on school leaders work that pulls them away from the people and mission at the center of it all.
Frustrated by the cost and rigidity of existing school management systems, Dominique documented every feature an ideal system should include. Serge brought decades of business and operations experience to turn that vision into reality. Together, they built Clever Education Solutions and Cordelia to give Montessori school leaders the structure and clarity they need, without asking them to sacrifice the relationships and philosophy that brought them to this work in the first place.
OUR COMMITMENT
At Clever Education Solutions, we believe in building lasting relationships with our partners and conducting ourselves and our business with integrity, honesty, and mutual respect.
We are committed to supporting our Montessori clients every step of the way as they integrate our school management software. We understand that change can be daunting, but we guide and build hands-on relationships with each school for a seamless transition. Our dedicated team will be there from the start, providing personalized attention and continuous support, fostering collaboration and open communication.
Cordelia : A Name reflecting our values
Cordelia takes her name from Shakespeare’s King Lear, his youngest daughter, known for her loyalty, honesty, and quiet beauty, even when it cost her.
Loyalty and honesty are values we hold at the center of how we run this company, with our schools, and with each other. And the beauty in Cordelia’s name reflects something else we care about deeply: Montessori’s vision of a calm, prepared, streamlined environment. That’s the image we return to when we design the platform itself not flashy, not cluttered, but orderly and quietly beautiful, the way a well- prepared classroom is.
It’s a name that asks something of us every day: to build a system worthy of the values it’s named for.
The co-founding team
Dominique Mouthon
co-Founder & ceo
Dominique’s Montessori journey began in 1992, as a classroom assistant at the school where her two daughters were enrolled. She went on to complete her AMI 3–6 training in Atlanta under Lilian Bryan, graduating in 1995, and joined what is now known as Adams Montessori School the following year. In 1999, while at Adams, she completed the NAMTA Administrator Training — an important part of her preparation for school leadership.
She spent eight years there, serving first as teacher-director and then as Director, growing what was a single classroom of 12 students on the brink of closing into a thriving school of 100 students across three Primary classes and an Elementary. In 2004, she and Serge relocated to Raleigh, NC, where she joined Follow the Child Montessori — first as Assistant Head, then as Upper Elementary Lead Teacher and Curriculum Director (completing her AMS 6–12 training along the way), and ultimately as Head of School for nine years, during which she led the construction of a new 19,000-square-foot campus.
That firsthand experience building, growing, and running Montessori schools from the ground up is what inspired her to create a management platform designed specifically for small and mid-sized Montessori schools: schools that deserve better than expensive, ill-fitting software built for larger institutions.
Serge Mouthon
co-Founder & cfo
Serge brings a deep, personal understanding of Montessori as Dominique’s husband and business partner. As a Montessori dad, he’s seen firsthand how the Method shaped their two daughters into caring, strong-minded, successful young women. With over 40 years of business experience spanning mechanical engineering, operations, and the medical-device industry — including co-founding a specialized equipment firm Serge brought the operational rigor needed to turn Dominique’s vision into a working company. His boots-on-the-ground, no-nonsense approach, paired with a genuine commitment to customer success, is something school staff and families notice and appreciate.
three generations
Today, Dominique and Serge’s commitment to Montessori spans three generations of their own family their daughters, and now their grandson Felix, who is Montessori-educated himself. It’s the same conviction that shapes how they build Cordelia.