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For five decades, the Olympia Community School (OCS) has been offering local students a highly engaging learning experience in a unique private elementary school that is entirely operated by parents. And if local families are looking for such an alternative school, OCS has openings for K-5 students in the 2024-2025 school year.
Last week, Nicor Gas announced that Turning Pointe Autism Foundation is one of 11 organizations to receive $5,000 in environmental stewardship grants.
For health and safety. >> reporter: 17 schools in portland built outdoor learning spaces, plenty of winter ghee and wifi. 6700 students k-12 spend part of their day outdoors. outdoors. that's also true in lafarge, where kindergarten only looks like recess all day. >> nobody is bored, not ever, not ever. and they're so joyful and healthy and happy. >> reporter: and do you think you learn more inside or outside? >> outside. >> reporter: because? >> because there's more stuff to learn. >> reporter: feel the wind, see the sun, dodge the pandemic. mark strassmann, cbs news, la farge, wisconsin. >> ...
This is where the social and emotional learning lives, where the create activity lives, and helps to reintroduces the learning environment to our kids, because they've been gone for so long. >> if you were still a principal of your school, what would be telling your kids on the return to school now? especially when kids are so anxious, and parents, too, on a safe return to school. >> first thing i would say is i love you, i've missed you, welcome back and give every single child and parent a big hug. that would be the first thing i would do, and this is important. it's going to be a challenge ...
Conversations with board members, and it's not just this board, they are always polite, cordial. we try to find ways to work together. i think we are really looking to try to invest in more outdoor classroom, outdoor learning spaces where masks aren't as necessary. we are trying to invest in finding ways to connect team with good information with our epidemiological teams. anything to bridge that gap and make implementation easier. again, there are hardened positions here, so it's a difficult road. >> yeah, it is an unenviable task that you are facing to try to keep kids safe in this environme...