Dreams

It has always been there. The desire to teach. My earliest memory of wanting to be a teacher was playing school with my little brothers with old school books sent home at the end of the year.

The summer after fourth grade was my first group of kiddos. I finally got to be a jr. counselor at a tiny tike day camp. It was magical.

The month I turned 18, I walked straight into a preschool and received my first classroom for a beautiful bunch of 2 year olds. I have been in the elementary classroom for five years and in the momma classroom for 12. Teaching goes down to the very marrow of my bones. It is what I am created to do.

I have tried other roads but I was always lead back to the classroom.

Along the way, I have realized that traditional schooling is not set up to bring the best out of the children they serve. Teachers are expected to perform at ever evolving levels where test results rule the day and children become data. Not to mention some children truly do not fit in the traditional school box.

That school box is where my desire for a new kind of school began. One of my own sweet boys does not fit into that box. His strengths lie outside the traditional school room. He needs space and trees and room to grow.

I want to create that space for him.

I want to allow his God-given strengths to be nurtured so that he can ultimately give back to the world.

Here’s the deal. I want that for your child too.

I want your child to walk into our shared classroom and feel that their strengths contribute to the well being of our learning. That their voice and ideas and personhood is given room to grow. I want to find out what makes them tick; what makes them want to learn.

Each one of your children have something to offer to the world and I want to help grow that. I want your student to blossom, to reach their full potential. Strength building gives us that opportunity.

I am so thankful to find a partner that wants the same thing. A school where potential is grown and strengths are celebrated. I hope you will join us.

Your Strengths Advocate,

Mrs. Serenity Tucker