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The Story of the Lemon Tree

For those of you who don't know, Raintree has a lemon tree that lives next to the Kindergarten classroom. This is a resilient tree that...

Learning is Messy

In the "quiet" hallways of most schools, you'll find students sitting in chairs and tracing along dotted lines. Even in early childhood, ...

Local Produce in November

Being a green school is more than just turning the lights off when we leave a room. It also includes being good stewards of the crops tha...

Kindergarten Talks

Would you like to know more about a progressive approach to education? Come join us to talk about Raintree Kindergarten. It's an environm...

The Peace Process Works for Grown Ups, Too

During our conferences, last week, we spoke a lot about the social emotional growth of your children and I have a story to share to illus...

"Right Now" Learning

Speaking candidly, not all project times go as planned. And, as a teacher, we are planners. So, when times of learning and engagement do ...

Vaskebjorn: 4th Annual Forest School Congress of the Midwest

Vaskebjorn is the ultimate gathering of educators: a place for sharing innovative approaches and ideas to enhance place-based learning in...

'True Forest' at Geekway to the West

"Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the ...

Documentary in Post Production!

After a year of dreaming and planning and dreaming some more, the time has come to bring our ;attest big, hairy, audacious goal to life. ...

The Forest Inside Us

Forest day started like any other: fort building, leaf rubbings & story telling when, all of a sudden... "I heard a BOOM!" "I think at ni...

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