Sentences with phrase «wildflower schools»

Strong Reggio - Emilia programs (like the Journeys School in Jackson), emerging early childhood networks (like Wildflower Schools), and forest kindergartens are examples of using the outdoors, local community, play, and student interest to lay critical foundations for future success.

The Mind Trust will provide Wildflower Schools with a $ 250,000 planning grant and support its leadership team as they develop their model, engage the Indianapolis community, and navigate the process of launching their public «storefront» Montessori schools in Indianapolis.

Matt Kramer, who served as Co-CEO of Teach For America before becoming CEO of The Wildflower Foundation, will identify an entrepreneur to shepherd the opening of a cluster of three to four Wildflower Schools in Indianapolis in 2020.

Wildflower Schools opened its first school in 2014 and has since grown to a network of 14 decentralized schools.

«Wildflower Schools, with its teacher - as - entrepreneur Montessori model and innovative use of facilities, is exactly what our Charter School Design Challenge is about.»

«Like wildflowers themselves, Wildflower schools flourish in the right spots in supportive ecosystems,» Kramer said.

The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis - based education nonprofit, has selected Wildflower Schools and its innovative model of teacher - led, Montessori micro-schools as the second winner of its Charter School Design Challenge (CSDC).

There are 11 Wildflower schools in an informal network in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico and there are plans to open more schools soon.

Wildlflower Montessori, a micro-school in Cambridge, Mass. with 15 students, two teachers, and no principal, is one of 11 Wildflower schools in a loose network.

Not exact matches

In partnership with the Fox Valley Park District, students and park district employees planted about 3,000 prairie grasses and wildflowers along a stretch of Waubonsie Lake, which features a walking path behind the school.

~ Glittering Muffins ~ Still Playing School ~ Little Bins for Little Hands ~ Natural Beach Living ~ The Eyes of a Boy ~ Powerful Mothering ~ Wildflower Ramblings ~ I Heart Crafty Things ~ Delightful Learning ~ Life of Jennifer Dawn ~ Sugar Aunts

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Last year's event was the company's first, with many schools attending local solar farms, seeing the dual usage of agricultural farming as well as generating electricity, discovering the biodiversity measures that many farms use to attract insects and birds through use of wildflower meadows as well as learning how solar is a home - grown solution to the UK's energy crisis.

At the Wild Rose School, one of the Wildflower Montessori schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts, only 1 out of its 16 students reads below grade level.

It helps that Sepander Kamvar, a former Google executive who founded Wildflower, launched the network from the MIT Media Lab, which still has a partnership with the schools.

«There's a lot about the institutional quality of schools that feels misaligned with our basic humanity,» said Matt Kramer, CEO of the Wildflower Foundation, which supports a network of micro-schools.

Discover each of our six sparkling pools — featuring two rip - roaring water slides, a white sand beach, lap lanes and luxurious private cabanas — or venture off property nearby to enjoy inspiring hot air balloon rides, kayaking, exhilarating horseback riding, desert jeep tours, Bondurant racing school, wildflower walks, scenic hiking, magnificent museums, share - worthy sunsets and so much more!

Visitors to Wildwood can also access trails to Paradise Falls from Wildflower Playfields and Wildwood Neighborhood Park, as well as Wildwood Elementary School.

The Lawrenceville School solar farm is also home to nearly 900,000 resident honey bees, nourished by a special wildflower mixture planted among and around the solar panels.

Things I enjoy in May are lovely wildflowers on the roadside, Mother's Day, southern - style Decoration Day / family reunion, end of school and warmer weather!