Cultivating A Meaningful Learning Community
Community is the heart and soul of our homeschool enrichment program.
Peer Connections
When children have the support of a peer community, they have the opportunity to explore diverse perspectives and are inspired by other’s ideas. Social-emotional skills are learned naturally, and are constantly supported through intentional guidance by our instructors.
Family Invovement
We prioritize involving parents as positive role models in our program. Parents may choose to be involved as nature-based facilitators, by joining the occasional hike, sharing a craft or skill, or in any way that allows the parent to be a valued mentor to our children.
Positive Role Models
By maintaining a small group size and involving parents as much as possible, we cultivate relationships between families and amongst children and positive role models in our learning community. These relationships facilitate a sense of belonging and self worth in our children.
Meet Our Instructors
Hannah
Lead Instructor, Woodland Classroom (age 7-9)
Hannah is a lifelong learner, naturalist, gardener, and homeschool mom who loves sharing the magic of the natural world with children. She values an unhurried lifestyle, and has always had a passion for being in the outdoors and finding peace in nature. Hannah’s professional background is in biology and restoration ecology.
Hannah believes that all children deserve the opportunity to experience a simple childhood filled with everyday outdoor adventures, unstructured play, and meaningful relationships with their peers.
As a Woodland instructor, she strives to cultivate a loving and rich learning environment that inspires curiosity and exploration, and encourages a lifelong love of learning.
Amy
Lead Instructor, Sage House Classroom (age 5-6)
In her early years, studying child development at university, Amy was enthralled by the holistic approach found in many alternative education models. Amy has her bachelor’s in early childhood development, a certificate as a Montessori primary teacher (age 3-6), studied at a Waldorf school, Reggio model, play-based theories, and various forest and nature-based pedagogies. Amy has also completed training as a Feldenkrais movement practitioner. All of these experiences inform her personal methodology. She is not dogmatic to any particular way of instruction, but seeks to be a kind, curious, playful, and responsive teacher. Nothing moves Amy more than rediscovering the world through the eyes of a child. It brings her immense peace and hope for our world.
Amy loves teaching in an outdoor environment, and feels like it supports the holistic development of the child and fosters wonder of the natural world. She enjoys the community that is created by parents coming together to support their child's homeschool journey. This program is rooted in her belief that education should be a living and dynamic space where a child can develop into a well rounded human.