What ages may attend?

We are beginning our opening year with multi-grade classrooms, organized by Forms, which serve children who would be traditionally placed in Kindergarten through 8th grade. As the school and our students grow, we hope to organically expand to continue through high school.

What curriculum or educational approach to you use?

We use the CMEC, a Christian, Living Classical approach, developed by the ancients and deepened and sharpened by Charlotte Mason, a British educator living at the turn of the century. It upholds Truth, Goodness, and Beauty as the natural goal and greatest happiness of humanity, being expressions of God himself, and allows the child to be put in touch directly with these aspects of God’s creation that he gave us to better know him, to sharpen our gifts and our character with, and to delight in.

Additionally, the resources developed by the CMEC provide teachers and parents with an thorough understanding not only of what they are going to explore with their children over the course of the year, buy why and how. They provide resources for all the “riches” which some schools consider “extras” (or eliminate entirely) so that your child is provided with all of the beauty our culture, past and present, has to share with them.

How do you approach testing and grades?

The CMEC curriculum includes tests at intervals to assess knowledge and to give the student an opportunity to express and witness all that they have learned so far. These assessments do not take a check-box approach, but emphasize open-ended questions that present students with a forum to show what they have incorporated and put it to the best use, rather than trying to “catch them up” in gaps and encourage cramming. We do not emphasize testing or assessments, but recognize that they give the student an understanding of their progress and the self-confidence to express what they know and have it received encouragingly.

Similarly, we do not give letter grades, but write an individual student progress report for each child at the end of each term. This is an essential component in our co-teaching endeavor with parents, who are the primary educators of their children, so that we can function with them as a unified team in providing their child the support he or she needs to grow in knowledge and virtue.

Do you do any activities outside of traditional academics?

We take nature walks at least weekly, and spend regular afternoons at nearby Cravens Park to explore the beautiful wooded paths, the basketball and tennis courts, and have free play on the playground.

We also plan at least one field trip a term, on which families are welcome to join us! Goals for the 2024-25 school year are: a show at the Casa Mañana Theater, a morning at the Kimbell museum, a visit to Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth, and a trip to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.