Rainbow Mountain Children's School
Private School in Asheville
Research within schools has shown that the time spent on social curriculum – on team building activities, class meetings, character studies, and the like, which promote social skills—is not time taken away from academics. By training children how to get along with one another, they can actually … [Read more...]
Remember tumbling around on the floor with your dad or having a pillow fight with your cousins? Fun, right? Well, it's also developmentally essential, especially for boys. To read all the fascinating reasons why you WANT your son to roughhouse, click on the following NY Times … [Read more...]
There were over 20 people from Rainbow Mountain Children's School at the Sir Ken Robinson lecture last night, and we were all inspired -- actually, validated, is a better word for it. Validated to know that the style of education we have been doing for 34 years at Rainbow, is now considered … [Read more...]
Are you passionate about education? Would you like to see the whole educational paradigm changed in America? Despite the seriousness of this topic, do you love to laugh? Then I highly recommend you take advantage of a great opportunity: At 6pm this Wednesday, April 27, TED Speaker, Sir … [Read more...]
The following link is a well-written blog that explains how we build self-esteem at Rainbow Mountain. Although the author doesn't refer to Positive Discipline or The Responsive Classroom (two of the classroom management/behavior models we draw from at Rainbow), his beliefs and practices are … [Read more...]
