Academy Ready to Launch Its Courses
Regina Silva and Gladiza Santiago, members of the INE faculty, discuss with adult learners the materials that will be needed for the course.
With the arrival of June, we welcome a new group of adult learners, whom we call adult apprentices, who make Instituto Nueva Escuela (INE) in Río Piedras their learning space. Their goal: to become Montessori guides and transform the lives of their students and families through a distinct educational philosophy and pedagogy.
This summer, our home welcomes 68 adult apprentices at all levels—from Infant & Toddler, which serves children starting at two months old, to those training to support adolescent development in the Secondary level.
The Academic Program was the founding purpose of INE in 2008. Since then, and without interruption, it has prepared public school teachers and educators from private centers to the highest standards.
Our faculty includes 50 individuals—Montessori guides who have been with INE since its founding and those currently leading environments in public Montessori schools.
María Isabel García and Sarah Maldonado will be teaching the Casa de Niños course this summer. Both are Montessori guides at this level.
One of them is María Isabel García Pacheco, currently a Children’s House guide at Juana Rodríguez Mundo Montessori School in Canóvanas and INE’s coordinator for the Children’s House level.
María has been a Montessori guide for over 9 years and has seen her own professional development flourish. She describes the process as enriching and transformative, something she now hopes to provide to the adult apprentices she will support as a facilitator.
“It’s wonderful to reconnect. For us, it’s a space to diversify and share what we know with other communities,” María Isabel said about the course’s start.
Courses begin this June 11 with great excitement, as every summer, new educators join the Instituto Nueva Escuela family and the public Montessori school project, which today includes 60 schools across 31 municipalities.