Programs
“Falcons shaped how I approach community - showing up, learning together, and helping people around me grow.” - Falcons alum, age 19
Sedqwick Class (In Person)
Serving students roughly ages 5-16, the Sedgwick class meets from 9-1:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays at Anna’s home in Sedgwick, Maine. There students study a wide variety of topics while also learning through the tasks needed to grow and maintain their community, whether it be stitching notebook bindings, using Town Meeting methods to make decisions, or building their own meteorological tools to produce a weekly weather report for the student newspaper.
Online Falcons
Some learning needs groups, and we can learn a lot from peers in other places. This student-centered community brings learners from multiple locations together in one online space to build their reading, writing, problem solving, artistic, and math/science skills through multilayered questions like “What is learning?” “Is math logical?” and “Why does my neighborhood look the way it does today?” Collaborative discussions allow students to learn from one another’s experiences, and the online format builds healthy 21st-century communication skills from the standpoint that technology is a tool, not a destination.
Tutoring/Consulting
Though all called “tutoring” this Falcons offering can take many forms. For some it is the traditional “meet with a teacher for an hour a week to work on a specific subject” arrangement, either remedially or proactively. For others it is a collaborative advisory experience as student and teacher work together to craft an exploration plan that meets the student’s schooling needs and interests. A few students even tutor without meetings, submitting written work for written feedback and receiving their teaching through a penpal arrangement. If multiple students want to study the same thing, or want to craft their own learning path in company, sometimes they buddy up into tutoring groups. As with 1:1 tutoring, these can take a wide variety of forms to meet a wide variety of needs.
We also offer consultations to first time homeschool caregivers or seasoned homeschool parents to support helping you keep up with your glorious child. With decades of knowledge of curricula, home/learning dynamics, and growing humans, teachers in Falcons have usually seen what you are puzzling over before, and can walk with you in making a plan you- and your learner - are excited about.
