By E.S.S., Inly Parent
“Hey, why don’t you check in on how all the new folks are doing?” Inly Communications Director Liz Knox asked me. By “new folks” she meant the seven new Inly faculty and staff that started here in the Fall. “Let’s find out how they’re settling in, and how the first half of [...]

By Martha Leta, Inly Parent
“Go big or go home,” or rather “Go wig or go home” was the prevailing theme at Wednesday’s Morning Share, which featured Dragons! And Tigers! And Big Hair! Oh my!

The line-up included performances from preschool through middle school. Launching out of the gates with a cuteness factor of at least 11, [...]

This week, we asked our teachers in the Children’s House Five class to share their favorite stories that illustrate those moments of joyful discovery when an idea clicks for a student, the mental light bulb switches on, and the “aha!” epiphany brings new life to learning.
Children’s House Five / Bridging Class
CH5 is a transitional class for [...]

By Annika Voynow, Assistant Head of Inly School
“I do it!”
If you have had toddlers in your home you have surely heard this indignant cry come from the child as you attempt to help him or her with an everyday task. In the video clip below, Inly toddlers work on putting on their coats [...]

By E.S.S., Inly Parent
It was easy to choose Montessori when my daughter was just three years old. She was my first kid, and I wanted her in a learning environment that was loving and nurturing and not too traumatic for me to drop her off every day.
But once I got in the swing of things [...]

When he’s not rocking the Inly stage with “Pinball Wizard” on the guitar, Inly Middle School student, Chris Ribaudo, is in the kitchen cooking.
“I started cooking when I was 10—easy stuff like eggs, or helping to bake a cake. Then I started making things on my own,” says Chris.
This passion for cooking led Chris to [...]

This week, we asked our teachers in Toddler House to share their favorite stories that illustrate those moments of joyful discovery when an idea clicks for a student, the mental light bulb switches on, and the “aha!” epiphany brings new life to learning.
Toddler House
The toddler classroom is a beautiful, welcoming home away from home. A visit [...]

We are pleased to announce that Trevor Eissler, author of Montessori Madness, will be speaking at the March 23 Inly Insight Event at 5:30 p.m. in the Library. The event is free and open to the public.
You may recall Donna’s podcast about Montessori Madness. To round out the views about the book and to inspire [...]

By Paran Quigley, Inly Middle School Science Teacher
When I first told my friends that our Inly Middle School students would be building and racing model cars instead of having a test on Newton’s Laws of Motion, they looked at me with a mixture of disbelief, sympathy, and genuine confusion. Even after several months of my [...]

This week, Annika Voynow, our Assistant Head of School, shares her favorite story illustrating a moment of joyful discovery when an idea clicks for a student, the mental light bulb switches on, and the “aha!” epiphany brings new life to learning.
Annika’s Pythagorean Theorem Story

One of the things I love most about Montessori is that in [...]