Whitby School inspires a passion for learning and empowers each child to take responsibility as an open-minded, principled citizen in a global community. www.whitbyschool.org By combining the complementary Montessori and International Baccalaureate (IB) teaching methodologies along with educational best practices, Whitby endows each student with distinct educational advantages. As the founding school of the American Montessori Society, Whitby follows the child’s developmental stages to provide the most effective teaching approaches, respecting and encouraging each child's innate curiosity about the world. Furthermore, Whitby’s IB curricular programs of structured inquiry are tailored to the maturity and intellect of the child and develop the fundamentals of the IB learner profile in each student. The result is Whitby provides each child the tools to succeed academically, socially and emotionally, now and in the future.