Virtual Journey & Discovery
Learn More About the Montessori Curriculum
Montessori in Redlands is an environment where children begin a life journey of self-realization, love of learning, and global responsibility.
An education at MIR focuses on helping your child develop the cognitive, physical, social-emotional, and executive skills they will need to succeed as adults.
In a safe, home-like environment, your child experiences rich opportunities to explore with all their senses and grow through lots of active interaction with the adults.
Primary students engage in an enormous variety of real-life activities that support independence and self-efficacy.
Elementary students learn geography, biology, history, language, mathematics in all its branches, science, music, art, and much more. Students also continue to develop their social-emotional and executive functioning skills.
Research Notes
Evidence Brief – Ideal Learning Environments for Young Children provides a science-based description of what makes an ideal learning environment for young children. Montessori environments meet these criteria.
Montessori and Executive Functioning
Executive functioning is so important to success in life that MIR includes it in its Student Learner Outcomes. Executive functioning skills include working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control--the skills that we need to set goals, plan, and get things done.
Read this whitepaper on the social, moral, cognitive, and emotional dimensions of a Montessori education.
This video from Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child discusses the importance of executive functioning skills to life and learning. Many of the classrooms featured are Montessori classrooms.