Our goal is to help students to reach their ultimate potential by recognizing each child’s unique potential to change their world. We believe the best educational model isn't everyone getting the same thing, it's everyone getting what they need to be successful.  

A philosophy of acceptance and flexibility.

• Every student is capable of incredible things to help themselves and others.

• Students are seen for who they are, supported when they need it, challenged to grow at the optimum learning edge of failure. We ask each child to “mess upwards” through appropriate risk taking, reflection, do-overs, and a lot of humor; and then are asked to lead others when they succeed.

Our modern small schoolhouse model is based in differentiated learning and project-based learning.

• Agency builds when students self-discover what is most interesting to them in a concept or theme and then have the opportunity to explore further. Students have daily time to work on their own passion projects with teachers coaching them on their executive planning and functioning.

• Schoolwide projects lasting six to seven weeks engage students in meaningful, real-world themes focused on topics and skills they will apply for a lifetime.

• Each student learns their core literacy skills (English and math) through differentiated workshop models, where they work collaboratively with children across different ages that may be learning the same topics. We create a culture that encourages a child to embrace getting support they need one moment (from a teacher or often even a peer younger than them), and then lead others another moment (coaching children that may be older than them).

• Visibly sharing and celebrating how every classmate learns differently builds the superpower empathy for others and themselves through radical acceptance that every person has moments of strength and moments of weakness.  

Eliza’s Story

Harold’s Story