IVMS is dedicated to teaching core values of peace, integrity, community, and tolerance through a scientific and culturally oriented Montessori curriculum which reveals to the child the diversity and richness of human experience. The mission of Island Village Montessori School is to provide children with spontaneous and creative opportunities as well as an organized curriculum that engenders self-discipline and responsibility. The social, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the child's education have to do with practicing the values of compassion, honesty, self-reliance, service, and tolerance rather than indoctrination into any particular religious point of view. At IVMS, adults will model these core values and the children will learn by their example. In such an atmosphere, children can become peaceful and tolerant members of society who wish to succeed by bringing others along.
Children are able to work at their own pace with materials they have chosen.
They work either in small groups or individually. While students are expected to master the same reading, writing and computation skills required of them in any public school curriculum, there is flexibility inherent in the system to accommodate each student s academic interests and potential. The aim is to encourage active, self-directed learning and to strike a balance of individual mastery with group collaboration. The curriculum will include foreign language, drama, art, and music.