Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of these ideas are exciting and innovative, others are darker and disturbing. Read More >>
What does it mean to individualize curriculum?
Your child is like no other. At The New School we build our relationship with your child based on the understanding that each child processes their thinking and actions based on prior experiences, unique ways of accessing information and expressing their understandings. Each week we develop an individual plan for your child. This plan, what Read More >>
The Benefits of a Multi Age School Environment
From birth all of us are social learners (Lev Vygotsky’s Social Learning Theory). It is how we learned to walk and talk. We learned from those who are older by watching, and copying. The older child learns the importance of nurturing and appreciating the younger child, learning to moderate and modify behaviors, to stay in Read More >>
Affective Education
Affective education, intellectual education and academic education support need each other. At The New School we make time for all of them. What is affective education? Areas of affective growth which we are actively working to support are: Positive self-image concerned with developing a realistic self-awareness Decision making, the ability to evaluate alternatives Coping Read More >>