History
Vision
During the past six years, our experience with private school, public school and home-schooling have led us to realize the great need for a Peninsula-based Center offering enriched, ability-based education for gifted children, home-schoolers and life-long-learners.
For this reason, we are putting together a pilot run for a sustainable learning center we are hoping to launch in September.
Our first grouping of classes will be offered in Redwood City on Mondays and Wednesdays between April 20 and May 13.
Our intention is to create a brain-firing environment, and provide learning adventures that foster the spirit of inquiry, magnify conceptual ability and develop higher-level thinking. We will strive to serve the larger educational communities, including home-schooling families and gifted and life-long learners.
Map and Directions
This is a work in progress and all of the logistics are still unfolding. Our center will be influenced and inspired by Lead Center in Lost Gatos, Lyceum of Santa Clara, Baywood Learning Center in the East Bay and the Village Home Education Resource Center in Portland.
We will have a membership structure with a fee to join and the option to pay tuition for classes or teach or volunteer in return for class credit. The center will offer a la carte classes, which do not discriminate on the basis of age; rather we intend to provide ability requirements for all classes so students can learn at the appropriate level in areas of interest to them.
We expect inter-disciplinary and project-oriented classes and activities to be very popular. Some examples of inter-disciplinary classes offered at other centers include offerings like: “Harry Potter” or “Lord of the Rings” Literature Seminars that bring science, art, drama, language arts, and history into the classroom around a common theme.
Classes will be small, with an average of 10 students per class, of varying ages. Parents will be welcome in the class anytime.