Most parents start with this question:
What is your curriculum?
You should ask about what curricula a school uses because, in a conventional school, the curriculum has a lot to do with outcome. The curriculum defines of where your child will end up.
Curriculum from Latin, meaning the boarders that delineate a race course or the yoke that unites a set of horses.
In a traditional school the development of your students interests, will, and agency take second priority to the grouping and sorting of students.
At Tilde School we do not have curricula we have tactics.
We use project based natural learning whenever possible.
In natural learning we use an example and try to imitate. We succeed, and fail, and try again. We learn from doing and experimenting.
We encourage questions and we thoroughly explore topics, content and skills.
By asking questions and exploring ideas that are of real interest to our students, we demonstrate the habit of being inquisitive and the virtue of being an autodidact and life-long learner.
We think about what we want and how to achieve it.
Structure and goals, knowing where you are, and where you want to go, are the basis for getting to any destination. By practicing rigor, tenacity and forethought we build confidence, capability and capacity.
We take calculated risks, we adapt and we value resiliency.
The world changes everyday, so do we. In anticipating change we can concentrate our efforts and insure that our investments in ourselves make us prepared for whatever we encounter.
What does this look like in practice?
Every student and every students experience at Tilde School is unique.
