Our approach to preschool
Emily Anders Emily Anders

Our approach to preschool

We reject the “academic pushdown” that holds young children to developmentally inappropriate expectations, while fostering a love of learning that can lead to surpassing those academics standards anyway.

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Welcome, preschoolers!
Emily Anders Emily Anders

Welcome, preschoolers!

Preschool is the exciting first step for many children as they begin their education journeys. It is also the first step for The Spruce School. If you’re interested in building a new way of schooling together, I’d love for your child to be in our very first class.

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Introducing The Spruce School
Emily Anders Emily Anders

Introducing The Spruce School

I am starting a new school. I am starting from scratch because I believe we are near a local maximum in our traditional schools; that is, we don’t offer an ideal education to children right now and any earnest tweaks of just one of the structural factors that influence that outcome are painful and ineffective.

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