Oak House School Room
Student autonomy, intellectual community, and radical compassion is what we do.
Student Autonomy
The foundation of successful educational pursuit is meeting your nervous system needs first. We encourage our students to listen to their bodies and in response take a break, eat a snack, and ask for what they need.
Intellectual Community
Via evidence based educational practices, such as Orton-Gillingham, Structured Word Inquiry, Illustrative Math, Project-based learning, Genius Hour and more, we foster conversations amongst students and teachers that result in a flourishing intellectual community.
Radical Compassion
Radical compassion for teachers, students, and parents allows for the authentic community that is required for all stakeholders to thrive. At Oak House, we begin with the unwavering belief that every single human already belongs.
We believe that children deserve the respect of their full humanity.
By focusing on small class sizes, evidence-based educational practices, and operating from a conceptual standpoint of Universal Design for Learning, teachers have the bandwidth and opportunity to meet the needs of students educationally, socially, and emotionally.
Education is changing.
We follow the brain science that says that students must feel safe in order to engage with learning. We prioritize their mental health and strive to nurture it so they can be the best versions of themselves. To that end we use a behavioral model called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS). It is an evidence-based, trauma-responsive approach to working with kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges in families, schools, and treatment facilities, originated by Dr. Ross Greene.
