The Little Red Schoolhouse offers a warm, safe, and loving environment in which young children are encouraged to learn through play. Our experienced teachers use project-based learning as the platform to encourage children’s social development and growth, while carefully differentiating instruction to meet individual needs. The rotating curriculum includes integrated units on topics of interest to young children, including topics suggested by the children themselves.
The Little Red Schoolhouse’s unusually low student-teacher ratio offers children a great deal of personal attention and encouragement to develop their individual strengths. We are also fortunate to have as classroom aides a number of talented work-study students and student volunteers from the local colleges. Inspired by their time with us, many of these college students have gone on to pursue work in child advocacy programs, graduate programs in education, and Teach for America.
Parents are also an important part of our program. They are free to visit and may participate in many parts of The Little Red Schoolhouse day. Families who enroll their children often end up forging long-term friendships that continue long after their children have graduated from preschool. They and we are happy to be a part of the “LRS Community,” which extends all the way back to the school’s founding in the late 1930s.
