Small Schools Coalition Education Blog
Member Spotlight: CWI Keeps Community Involvement with Schools Alive!
Community involvement is a foundational cornerstone of every successful small school. In fact, schooling was synonymous with a community’s culture; up until only about 150 years ago, when centralized education ushered in large institutions and standardized curricula....
Rethinking Education: What if “Small” was Normal?
“True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge, it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages.”This article comes to us by way of an publicly anonymous comrade of the Small Schools Coalition, who has an interesting story to tell.... Like...
Letter to the Small Schools Coalition on School Consolidation
The Small Schools Coalition is all about relationships. Relationships between schools, educators, administrators and, of course, the communities we serve. Our founder, Dr. Stuart Grauer, recently took part in long-distance conversation with a parent from New Jersey...
Taking the Stress out of Applying to Private Schools
With the new 2019-2020 school year upon us, it is already time for some parents to think about where their child will attend school next year. It’s no secret: Applying to private schools can be stressful. But it does not have to be if you go in with a plan that...
A Primer to Help Reclaim the Love of Learning
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of...
Environmental Education Authority: The Grauer School in Encinitas
“Our mascot, the Grauer’s Gorilla, was selected decades ago as a symbol of an endangered species that perseveres despite odds —never has our motto been more relevant to us. Our work as educators and environmental stewards will be successful once all of our students...