Growing Healthy Minds and Strong Bodies
Active, Multiage Learning for Students in a Nature-Rich Environment
Growing Healthy Minds and Strong Bodies
Active, Multiage Learning for Students in a Nature-Rich Environment
Mighty Roots Academy offers enrichment programs!
Homeschool Academy
Homeschool Academy
Homeschool Academy
A two day a week academic program for 5 - 14 year olds focusing all content on our unique multiage, active learning, cross-curricular and nature based approach.
Creative Options
Homeschool Academy
Homeschool Academy
A one day a week program focused on offering art, theatre, academics and more for 5 - 14 year olds. This program also incorporates our basic mission of active, multiage learning in a nature-rich environment
Forest School
Homeschool Academy
Forest School
This one day a week morning Forest School program offers 4 - 7 year olds natural learning opportunities through adventure and play! These lessons will inspire interest in academics without formal pressure.
Our teaching styles focus on...
Active Learning
Active Learning
Active Learning
At Mighty Roots Academy we do to learn. Our goal is for learning to feel like play as students move, create, discover, imagine, and explore.
Nature Based
Active Learning
Active Learning
Nature is at the core of our program at Mighty Roots Academy. We take learning outdoors as much as possible; explore, playing and growing strong bodies and minds on our beautiful 5 acre campus.
Cross Curricular
Cross Curricular
Cross Curricular
Our classes bring together learning from core education subjects, practical arts, and performing arts for an education that focuses on the whole self not just the mind. When the students deeply explore their interests, the learning follows naturally with the guidance of our specialized staff.
Mixed Age Groups
Cross Curricular
Cross Curricular
Traditional schooling is one of the only environments in our culture where children only interact with others of their same age. By using mixed age classrooms, students always have someone who knows more than they do from whom they can learn, and at the same time have someone they can help teach. By creating an environment where our staff
Traditional schooling is one of the only environments in our culture where children only interact with others of their same age. By using mixed age classrooms, students always have someone who knows more than they do from whom they can learn, and at the same time have someone they can help teach. By creating an environment where our staff become guides, students learn that they are valuable and have something to contribute to the lives of others.
Our Philosophy and Goals
Philosophy
Modern education sees learning as an accumulation of facts; it is content-driven but skills deficient. Many children don’t know what to do with the information they have. The results include an inability to order thoughts and to think clearly or independently. At Mighty Roots Academy, we believe it is most important to develop the skills of independent learning that equip students for a lifetime of inquiry and growth. A true education builds the skills needed for becoming a lifelong learner. We believe that students benefit most when skill-building is the focus, no matter the subject.
Goals
The primary goal of Mighty Roots Academy’s approach is to train students to be curious about the world around them which leads to a constant and lifelong learning mindset as students learn how to learn. Academic success is a natural by-product of this approach.
Mighty Roots Academy aims to...
- Emphasize that “less is better,” meaning that the student is better off listening to and reading books, exploring nature, and learning about the world around them than grinding through workbooks that really don’t teach as much as they might seem.
- Emphasize depth over scope of content so that courses really aim for mastery of key skills, which takes time and focused attention. In developing these skills, students will learn how to learn, and thereby will be motivated, competent, independent, lifelong learners.
- Challenge students by making the courses lively, inspiring, and centered around students’ individual interest and learning needs.
- Allow families with multiple children the opportunity to provide quality, age appropriate instruction for both older and younger children at the same time.
- Support families in their desire to homeschool by limiting our classwork to the academy day with no required outside homework.
- Encourage parents to learn alongside their children through extension activities at home which are provided by our staff.
- Support parents by sharing in the education of their children, so that through time apart parents can be refreshed and therefore better educators of their children when together.
- Model and, when necessary, guide students in principles such as humility, graciousness, and concern for others.