Upper Elementary Teachers
Name: Tara Calianos
Dept: Upper Elementary
Title: Upper Elementary Teacher
Year Appointed: 2012
Phone: 781-545-5544 x124
Tara graduated from Saint Anselm college as a psychology major and a fine arts minor. She then went to Lesley University and got a dual masters in regular and special education. She worked as a special and regular education teacher in Brockton and as a classroom teacher in Hingham. Tara loves teaching writing and reading in a way that kids can showcase their creativity. In her free time, she loves to ski, play the violin and recently took up guitar.
Name: Monica Curley
Dept: Upper Elementary
Title: Upper Elementary Teacher
Year Appointed: 2000
Phone: 781-545-5544 x147
Monica completed her Montessori training at St. Nicholas Montessori College in Dublin, Ireland and earned the Montessori advanced diploma in education for ages 3-12. She worked with children in an Infant Community (Toddler Program) and with 3-6 year olds in various schools in Dublin. When she moved to the United States she was lead teacher of a Lower Elementary class (ages 6-9) in a large urban Montessori school in Chicago. Monica worked as a Lower Elementary teacher at Inly from 2000 to 2007 and has worked as an Upper Elementary teacher since then.
Name: Amanda Pillsbury
Dept: Upper Elementary
Title: Upper Elementary Teacher
Year Appointed: 2012
Phone: 781-545-5544 x404
Amanda earned her master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Though she set out to become a doctor and a medical educator, she contracted an incurable case of enthusiasm for project-based children’s learning. Amanda loves to hear children work out the answers to their own questions. She has lived out the Montessori credo in the seat of a bike, which she rode from Boston to Nova Scotia, as well as in the dirt and fields of organic farms in Vermont.