The Community School was hosting a yard sale Saturday, and I had a lengthy conversation with Director Lianne Prentice about the future of the school. She shared that The Community School as we know it is closing and being reinvented as a semester boarding school for students in grades 11-12 or for those exploring a gap year. The new name will be The Community School Center for Climate Resilience, partnered with the Jackman Pond Co-Housing Collective and Zero Mile Farm.
I asked Prentice to outline her vision for the new school. She responded by email: “The concept for the new program is based on the trajectory the school has been on for the past five years, honing our curriculum to teach essential core literacies, skills and dispositions through focused learned and projects around critical subject areas like climate change.”
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