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Giuliana de Grazia is a former Wilmington Montessori School student and current member of WMS's Advisory Board. While she was only at WMS for a short time, it made a lasting impression; she is now a Montessori teacher in New York City.

After attending WMS for her early years, Giuliana was enrolled in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District through ninth grade, then attended the Groton School for the remainder of high school.

Next, Giuliana attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and majored in English Literature/Art History. She graduated with honors and went on to earn her Master of Arts degree from St. John's College in Annapolis.

After completing her M.A., Giuliana worked and volunteered at the Touchstones Discussion Project in Annapolis and worked with Anna Bernanke (wife of former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke) to start a school. 

She then acquired her Primary Certification at the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies in Maryland and was trained in the Feldenkrais Method. After completing her Montessori training, she worked at Brooksfield Montessori School as an assistant teacher and then Chesterbrook Montessori School as co-head before settling in New York City.

Giuliana currently teaches at West Side Montessori School in Manhattan and is finishing a master's degree in Early Childhood General and Special Education at Bank Street College. She volunteers as a guide for the Resolution Project (a non-profit dedicated to fostering youth leadership development around the world through collaborative social entrepreneurship) and is a field consultant for West Side's teacher education program.
 

Giuliana's experiences at WMS inspired her to become a Montessori teacher, and she takes many of the lessons she learned into her own classroom each day. She particularly enjoys sharing a small photo album she received at WMS. The album includes pictures of Giuliana as a Montessori student, and the children she teaches love seeing that when she was a child, she used the same materials they have in their classroom, did a walk around the sun on her birthday, and had friends and teachers she loved just as her students love her.

 Giuliana's fondest memories of her time at WMS include being greeted at the door each morning, singing songs from Hawaii with her teacher Tissa Harrold Lewis and, of course, all of her wonderful friends and teachers.