About Our School
Miramelinda Montessori School is a dual-language immersion Toddler program (Spanish/English). We are part of the Wildflower Network of micro schools that promotes exploration, independence and healthy development for Toddlers age 12-33 months.
Our name comes from the miramelinda, a flower that grows all over Puerto Rico, the home of our founding Head of School, Lymichelle Rivera-Negron.
Our Teacher Leader
Lymichelle Rivera-Negrón
Founding Teacher Leader and Guide
Founder and lead teacher Lymichelle Rivera-Negron is an AMS-certified Montessori 0-3 teacher through Instituto Nueva Escuela in Puerto Rico and is certified in Massachusetts by the EEC as a Lead Teacher and Director. She had been a Licensed School Psychologist in Puerto Rico since 2009. She got in love with the Montessori Method from her second year of undergraduate studies in the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Campus, but it was her journey as a mother of 2 boys that motivates her to become a Montessori Guide.
Lymichelle is a Native Spanish Speaker and leads the classroom in Spanish and English. She comes from a very diverse family and is product of a teenage single mother who raised her in a beautiful countryside with her grandmother and aunts. She has worked with children from the infant level to teenagers and is a truly advocate of social justice.
Lymichelle loves to spend time with her family and enjoys the adventures in New England. She is passionate about staying in contact with nature and biking around Cambridge. She lives with her husband, two sons and a dog in Cambridge. She grew up in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. She enjoys being at the beaches in Puerto Rico during vacation time and also loves to practice snow tubing and ice skating with her family during the winter in Massachusetts.