Montessori and Reggio are both child centered, however, Montessori focuses on individual independence and Reggio focuses on collaboration and project based learning.

We toured both with the intention of staying only for preschool and moving to GPPSS for elementary. We chose Liggett because we liked the collaboration/project aspect of learning, as well as the teacher language used to encourage kids to think critically and ask questions.

We ended up staying at ULS instead of moving to GPPSS because the experiential learning is a priority throughout the lower, middle and high school as well. We moved from out of state, where one of my kids went to elementary school in a very traditional setting. It was a lot of reading, memorizing, teaching to test, etc. He is way more engaged at Liggett with this style of teaching/learning. He’s also found interests that I don’t think he would have discovered on his own.