Dear Families,


What follows is a long but very important email. I invite you to please take a moment now (or soon if this isn’t the right moment) to read it. We will need your help for what we are proposing, so please read on all the way to the call to action at the end.


Since its founding in 2004, The Children’s School has been committed to a vision of teaching and learning that includes social justice. In our earliest years, as K-1-2 school, this was reflected in our democratic practices and our values around honoring children’s voice and helping children advocate for their individual needs within the context of the whole community.

As our school has grown, our commitment to social justice has also grown. In 2016-17, faculty worked hard to craft robust social justice curricular goals, complete with concepts, skills, and vocabulary, organized by grade level. Specific, detailed, developmentally appropriate social justice curricular goals are, in my experience, pretty unique and not something that many schools have established.