What are some of my child's benefits when I join The Learning Center (TLC)?

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• We are building a healthy and supportive community together. Each day starts with a character building discussion on how to be a positive and contributing member of the TLC community. This discussion includes the topics of responsibility, honesty, courage, kindness, and the value of hard work. Building a safe, nurturing, and learning community is important and a great way to learn love for each other. Children of all ages eat and play together. This is a time of positive emotional growth as children are guided in helping each other through positive peer involvement.

  

• At TLC we want to educate children how to think for themselves and know why they think the way they do. We encourage children to talk with their parents about what they are learning.

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• Your child's learning is individualized because learning is provided at their level of ability. Giving your child learning that is just right increases their desire to put in effort and want to learn. Choice in science and history projects increases internal motivation. These projects teach children how to learn through application, effort, and presentation. We want to build a love of learning without limit.

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• Class size is 10 - 12 children per teacher. Your child will have individual and small group lessons with follow-up work. Children work in small groups and support each other, so your child experiences an additional level of peer support. This creates a constant spiral or review of learning naturally. TLC is a community without competition

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• Our goal is 100% mastery. Children turn-in their work into an in-bin every day, and educators go through this work to find teachable moments. Instead of giving your child a grade or simply checking off work, we meet with them to review what they still need to learn and master.

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• ​Time management is taught by breaking large pieces of work, such as writing projects, into weekly steps, with due dates. For example; week one is outline, week two is rough draft, week three is final copy, and week four is presentation to the group. Your child goes through the process of learning how to prioritize their work by completing work that is due first before other works. Our goal is to stretch your child's potential and learning without stress.

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• ​Worksheets are limited, especially in science and history. Hands on projects deepen your child's learning because your child must think at a deeper level to show and explain their learning. When your child presents their learning to a supportive group, they are owning what they have learned and experience a sense of accomplishment.

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• Your child will experience being a part of a guided, supportive, and responsible community as they contribute to the community agreement (groups needs for learning such as saving non-learning talk for lunchtime); community job chart where everyone does their part to take care of the community, and our community journal for anonymous entries to discuss problems that arise in the community.

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