It fits in with our goal to make lifelong learners of the students, and we feel that in-line skating can be a lifelong activity.

We are so thankful to be able to provide the kids with extra types of activities in this day and age when obesity and inactivity is a big problem.

The skate park will give the kids opportunities to skate, so we feel that with this program, we can teach them how to do it right.

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.

I don’t think anyone “finds” joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult