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 [...]

In this video, you will see the progression of mathematical concepts that are taught to Inly students in our Children’s House preschool program.

Last week, the Meehan Family Artsbarn was filled with two-story geodome structures. With the help of Mallory Bagwell and his hundreds of pvc pipes, Inly students in grades K–8 were able to combine math, science, architecture, teamwork, and hands-on learning to create giant dome-like structures:
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Bagwell, who was professionally trained as a Ringling Clown, says his [...]

By Mark Harvey, Upper Elementary Teacher
My sixth grade math group can now say “kite” in 23 different languages. This is what I love about Montessori—what was intended to be a practical math exercise using knowledge of ratio and proportion to construct kites, ended up also being a language lesson—and that part was entirely the doing [...]