OUR FOCUS

Mosaic Pathways is a private education association, an inclusive homeschool learning center supporting and facilitating natural and experiential learning opportunities in a flexible, differentiated, and unconventional environment. Our community supports students and families through the process of deschooling, co-regulating nervous systems, building safe connections, communication, social skills, and attention to underlying needs. Students are guided to explore, create, collaborate, and discover strengths and interests to become the best version of theirselves. Healthy human development is one of the most important aspects of education.

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Students who demonstrate readiness for engagement are guided to a self-directed holistic model. Curiosity, independence of mind, respect for others and our environment, and community are nurtured and valued. 

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MULTI-AGE MIXED SKILL-LEVEL

Our students learn in small group, multi-age, and  mixed skill-level  classrooms. In age-mixed play, the younger children are learning new skills, and more advanced ways of thinking, through their observations of and interactions with those more experienced. At the same time, the older children acquire leadership and nurturing skills, and a sense of their own maturity, through interaction with younger students.

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TIME TO PLAY, EXPLORE, AND PURSUE ONE’S OWN INTERESTS

Children need free time to learn how to get along with others, develop friendships, explore, get bored and overcome boredom, discover interests that may come and go, and immerse themselves in activities that engage their passions. They need space to grow, free from adults planning and dictating, to discover and pursue their own interests. A great amount of learning, growing, feeling, and experiencing happens in free play. Play helps us to develop a sense of self, belonging, and community; learn to communicate better, problem-solve, argue, and respect one another’s ideas; and find ways to fit our ideas within a community of conflicting and overlapping needs.

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RESPONSIBLE AND CAPABLE BEINGS

Giving children the opportunity to learn for themselves, through curiosity and questioning, allows them to feel capable and responsible for their own learning. Students begin to understand how much and what kind of structure works best for them. 

 

We recognize each child is on a unique path of growth. Guidance and support are individualized. Love of learning starts from within.