Not your typical first day around here, our #firstdayofschool traditions include play, building relationships, and sunflowers. These traditions were designed to build a community that can work through just about anything. First, play. Play is a child’s work. You can’t standardize learning through play and that’s why it trips everyone …
A beloved TKG Tradition is our Celebration of Learning. Our community gathers, as a show of deep support, to celebrate students and create value for their ownership in the process of learning. It supports our mission to offer an interactive and collaborative approach to education. The projects, or examples of work, …
Setting limits without rewards and punishment is hard to do but, we believe that in the long run the choice to support win-win solutions is nurturing confident and capable self-advocates and community members. from Aha! Parenting by Dr. Laura Markham Yesterday, we talked about why empathic limits are the secret …
How we do Valentine’s Day @ TKG There are a few themes that come up around Valentine’s Day including commercialism, intrinsic motivation, and empowerment. In promoting a personal, comfortable, and marketing-free environment we try our best to furnish the space with natural materials that encourage exploration, cooperation, and freedom to …
Happy New Year! Here is a short update on TKG as we enter the Winter season. We have about 23 weeks left in the year and are now enrolling for Summer enrichment. Please contact us with your questions! Registration links will be available soon. We have waitlists for our classrooms …
Our community values gratitude. Brené Brown’s research underscores the fact that gratitude nurtures joy and thus, like any academic subject, gratitude is something to be practiced each day. This year, we are celebrating our community traditions a little more distanced. It is the season for gratitude and we hope that it …
TKG is a special place because self-awareness and confidence-building are part of academic learning. By switching phrases from “Be Careful!” to something more specific and open-ended, we all learn about trust, cooperation, collaboration, and resilience. Recently, our classroom has been outdoors and that means, more exposure to experiences with flora …
Financial Assistance through Co-Op for the 2021-22 School Year Tuition moderation applications are now available online. SSS will process the financial aid applications, computations, and verification of forms throughout the entire process. If there are any questions concerning the status of your application, please call SSS directly. Applications are due …
One of the structural requirements of Project-Based Learning (PBL), is the “driving question.” Every year, TKG classrooms feature a question that is inspired by current events and environment (in Reggio philosophy the environment is a teacher, too) to help guide learning plans. Our questions are designed to empower students and the community …
