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 [...]

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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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 [...]

There is an article on the Wall Street Journal blog that is causing a buzz in Montessori circles.
In The Montessori Mafia, author Peter Sims suggests that “the Montessori educational approach might be the surest route to joining the creative elite, which are so overrepresented by the school’s alumni that one might suspect a [...]

Forging New Montessori Friendships
By Ned DiGregorio, Inly Upper Elementary Teacher
My family and I were lucky enough to go to St. John in the USVI over spring break. During the planning stages of the trip, I was introduced to a lifelong friend of fellow teacher Pat Thompson who was visiting Inly School. It just so happens [...]