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Exploring Fall the Montessori Way in the Toddler and Bridging Classes at Inly

Teacher updates in the parent portals on the Inly website:
In the Toddler Class
Pumpkins everywhere!
Our week was so much fun! Our toddler friends enjoyed exploring pumpkins in a variety of ways. They were able to carry them from here to there, some heavy some on the lighter side, great for large motor skills [...]

How is Montessori Innovative?

In “Montessori Builds Innovators,” a blog post on the Harvard Business Review website, Andrew McAfee recently weighed in on the “Montessori Mafia” theory posed by Peter Sims in the Wall Street Journal. McAfee is a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management.
McAfee begins by saying “There [...]

Former Inly Student Makes Global Montessori Connections through Art

By Pam Golden, Inly Art Instructor
Former Inly student Caroline Jones recently wrote to me from Costa Rica, where she is a student at Global College. Her service learning project was working with the students at a small Montessori school in La Carpio.
We decided to do an art exchange between the Inly Lower [...]

Montessori Practical Life Learning in Toddler House

Inly students, even as young as one and two, are encouraged to learn by doing. Students in Toddler House engage in Montessori practical life work, in this case pouring, where they perform tasks themselves in order to gain independence.
Click the video to see the work come to life.
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Inly Middle School Team Heads to NYC for Montessori Model United Nations

Ten seventh- and eighth-grade students from Inly Middle School will travel to New York City on Wednesday to represent China and the United States in a three-day Montessori Model United Nations program. While playing their roles as ambassadors, student delegates make speeches, prepare [...]