What Makes the Oak School Different?
We’re Rooted in Relationship, Care, and Respect
Reggio + Montessori inspired education
80% of the day is outdoors
Warm, fun, inviting, caring, inclusive, safe
Highly relational and individualized - teachers put effort into knowing each child and how best to support them
Teachers model respect and understand the developmental stages of the child
Activity adaptations - teachers provide different levels of challenge to meet the student where they are developmentally
The gift of wonder - Oak allows space for the child to take the time to experience the smallest details in the world around them
Low Student-to-Teacher Ratio
Enrollment Options
NEW! Kindergarten
Fall 2024
Now Enrolling for our Fall 2024 Kindergarten class. Please reach out for more details and open house dates at admin@theoakschool.org
Preschool/
PreK Enrollment
We are accepting applications for Fall 2024 for our mixed age (2.5-5 yrs) preschool/PreK class. Email us at admin@theoakschool.org to inquire and schedule a visit.
Oak Nature Camp!
We are now accepting applications for our 2024 Nature Camp. A six week program that builds on itself, fostering relationships and connection to nature, let this be a summer your child never forgets! Enroll today here.
Reggio, Montessori, nature-based, exploratory, child-led.
Relationships and connection are priorities, fostering an intellectually stimulating, individualized curriculum. Social emotional tools are modeled and practiced by all adults, because children learn through what they experience. We spend a lot of time outdoors exploring, and tending to our children’s innate curiosity, and creativity. Our home-like setting within the school, alongside the natural settings we spend so much time in outdoors, create strong roots for all foundational concepts. At our core, we respect and protect childhood.
What Parents Are Saying
“The Oak School is a place where children can grow, thrive, and learn in a safe environment. I have never seen a group of educators so dedicated to the development of children. The curriculum is child led and nature and relationship based. A child’s natural curiosity is valued and respected and they are permitted to explore, ask questions, and be a child.”
“The Oak School has been a lovely, nurturing school for our son to grow and learn. The indoor setting is beautiful and calming and there are multiple outdoor spaces for the kids to play and explore. The play based style of learning has been just right for our son, he is experiencing success and joy in learning. The teachers have huge hearts and are passionate about their work, something so precious to find in an educator. They are very much in tune with and responsive to the kids feelings and emotions, and put a large emphasis on social emotional skill development. I’ve never doubted that our son is in the best of hands at this school.”
We are a Preschool and Alternative Elementary Education
holistic school in colorado
At The Oak School, children love to learn and families are supported. Our curriculum is emergent, inquiry and play-based tailored to each child’s individual style of learning and rooted in care, respect, listening, and collaboration.
Whole Individual
We value the whole individual and the gifts each child has to share with the world.
We believe that a holistic education cultivates, acknowledges and fosters the freedom within ourselves, to be ourselves. We prioritize cultivating the mind as well as the heart.
WHOLE DEVELOPMENT
We tend to the natural and individual roots of each child, creating an environment where they have a strong sense of self and compassion for others.
When we are supported in our whole development, we are investing in a bright and peaceful future.
WHOLE ENVIRONMENT
Like a great big hug, our environment and learning curriculum are rooted in relationship.
From the whole-environment of the body, to the classroom, to the school, and beyond, we value how each aspect creates a whole — and the interdisciplinary nature of the entire environment.
Our Students. Our Parents. Our Teachers. Our Community.
At The Oak School we support our entire community to best support our beautiful, growing children. Our community does not work in a silo, instead our teachers are integrating a variety of learning styles to focus on the whole child and we don’t stop within the classroom. Parent support opportunities are built-in at Oak. Part of being at Oak is learning these strategies alongside your kids, so there is continuity between what they’re learning at school and home.
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How The Oak School Got Its Name
My great-grandfather, an avid enthusiast for education, planted oaks all over his community in his retirement. He built his life from the ground up creating his own construction company as one of the youngest sons of poor, Irish immigrants. There’s true poetry, but more importantly, deep hope in investing in something you will never see the end result of—which I value. Oak Trees can and do live well beyond the span of a human’s lifetime—as do our children and their children.
The Oak, for me, represents nurturing the love for humanity now, in the present, with the hope that the actions we all take and what we invest in today will create a better future for those to come after us. It is a quiet strength that steadily holds its ground, giving life to a myriad of species. The Oak knows itself; it knows when to let go of its dross and when to spring back into new life; it’s cyclical and dependable; it can be seen from miles away or could be cozied up with other trees.
Those Oak trees he planted are still thriving all over his hometown in Minnesota. A tribute to the hope of the future, and the love it takes to see beyond the tips of our own noses to the greater meaning and connection of us all. My hope is for The Oak School to become a place where children thrive as themselves so when they’re planted out in the world as adults, they too continue to live as themselves, love themselves, and therefore create more love in the world.
— Tricia Martin-Owen, Head Of School
