At PCS we give our students lots and lots of opportunities to be of service to others, without reward, for the pure pleasure of doing so. We offer them the simple opportunity to be kind. But we don't stop at the deed; rather, we spend time identifying needs right in front of our eyes, figuring out correct responses to those needs, and then reflecting on how it made us and the recipients feel.

Magic is happening as the students discover the universe up above

Lately, my oldest has been coming home from school saying, “Mom, school is haaaard.” He goes on to enumerate the ways, the subjects, the specifics. I empathize with him, of course, but secretly I’m just excited.

It’s amazing how hard it can be to just...notice. There is always so much to think about, to foresee, to consider, to worry about, to remember, to deliberate upon, to plan for, to fix, that all our attention is so often stolen from us, lost in the ever worrying buzz of our brains.  We’re hardwired this way. It’s not bad, necessarily. We use these capacities to protect ourselves, and our children, from danger, to solve problems, to learn, to improve at our jobs.

Education Director and Facilitator Sharon Cook led a Community Coffee conversation on the theory of loose parts and how we employ it at PCS.

School leaders discuss the role of trust- from the perspective of both parents and the school- in education.