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2020. A year of much learning for everyone. The impact of the pandemic has taught us to examine many dimensions of our lives, as well as that of others. At ILM, it was hardest for teachers. To imagine the effect it was going to have on their teaching, which is not...
13-week Woodwork Workshop: Deepening Design Thinking & STEM
Steaming the cauldron of creative magic Woodwork and carpentry. Not quite the skills of choice that traditional schools like to cultivate in children. But we at ILM have always thought differently. We’ve looked beyond the obvious and celebrated the outcome...
Bangalore’s best Library comes to ILM – and is open for ALL!
Children are cramming up to 6 hours of screen time, every day.Their eyesight is weakening and their minds turning to rot. "But what do I give them? How do I keep them occupied?" You ask.Roald Dahl has answered in his epic poem on Television: So...
Thank you, ILM!
Baliga is a parent at ILM Montessori. She also volunteers as a Teacher at our school where she teaches Physics and other STEM subjects to our Elementary students. I requested Baliga to write a blog post on her teaching experience at ILM. Her response gave us all a...
The Upper Elementary Parents Orientation – A Wondrous Morning of Learning and Awe
At the Parent’s Orientation, I overheard: “Wow! Are our kids really learning all this?” It’s a simple question. Yet the look of incredulity and gratitude on the face of the parent asking it, had me surging me with Pride and Humility. Pride...
Learning to Connect Heart to Heart at ILM (Part 2)
Angelic Faces, Compassionate Communication What a privilege I have of introducing the little ones at ILM to different frameworks of thinking and being. One of these paradigms has been that of Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Most people do a...