About SchoolHouse
What's a microschool?
The microschool is the reinvention of the one-room schoolhouse, where class sizes are small groups of 5-8 students and there are mixed-age level groupings.
What is SchoolHouse?
SchoolHouse brings the best parts of education to your home with excellent teachers, small class sizes, and a personalized curriculum. We provide all the tools you need to ensure that your children receive an enriching experience with greater flexibility and more personalized attention than traditional schools can offer - all in a safe and inspiring home learning environment.
Why does the teacher matter so much?
Think back to the best education experiences you've had, chances are you're thinking of a teacher. Research supports that teachers have the largest impact on student satisfaction and educational outcomes. SchoolHouse enables parents to choose the teacher that is right for them.
Who are the teachers?
We hire only the best teachers using a rigorous screening process. For every 1 teacher that we hire, we interview approximately 20 candidates. Our teachers have on average 8.5 years of teaching experience, often have advanced degrees, and come highly recommended by colleagues.
Where is the school located?
Learning can happen anywhere there is enough space for the students and the teachers. So far, our pods have taken place in backyards, around kitchen tables, in playrooms, and in community spaces.
What curriculum do we use?
Each class is uniquely responsive and learns to match the learning style, pace, and interest of each student. We support for every type of curriculum and certified learning method. We work with families to help them find what method best suits them, whether that's a Montessori approach, project-based learning, or STEM focused.
Health and Safety
Safety is our highest priority, for your family, the students we work with, and the teacher. We ask all teachers to follow all CDC, state, and local guidelines as it relates to COVID. Beyond that, each pod creates its own health agreement prior to starting, which we have all students, families, and teachers sign-off on.
Katiria K.
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Grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
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Near Fairfield County, Connecticut
Katiria K.
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Grades 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
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Near Fairfield County, Connecticut
After earning a Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a Bachelor's degree in English at Southern Connecticut State University, Katiria took off to Japan and started her international teaching journey. Over the last six years she has taught classrooms of students from grades 2-5 in Japan, Morocco and Colombia. She chose the teaching profession because she has always been passionate about learning and she loves feeding and encouraging this passion for learning in others. She's excited to work with SchoolHouse because it is an opportunity to get creative and make learning personal and fun. With this small group model, she is looking forward to helping students create meaningful connections with each other and to really take ownership of their learning.
Teaching Philosophy
Katiria believes that every child is unique and should be taught based on individual strengths and areas for growth. She aims to create a welcoming community where students feel safe sharing their ideas, making mistakes and taking risks. Her approach to teaching includes teaching the “whole child,” encouraging independence and helping students to become resilient in the face of adversity. It is important to her that her students are in an engaging environment where they are hands-on and they have opportunities to take ownership of their learning.
How it works
What is Schoolhouse?
We started SchoolHouse with the intention of helping people start microschools because we saw that it was a better way to learn. That’s been our focus from the beginning and we’ve built the team with that purpose.
We are a team of teachers, school leaders and parents who are simply school nerds. We want to build the best schools in the world, only smaller and in your home..
Teacher Screening Process
We screen and vet every teacher thoroughly and accept between 5-7% of applicants. This is to ensure a high quality education across every SchoolHouse school.
We recruit teachers from a variety of backgrounds including private, public, and charter schools. We interview and offer competitive packages and small class sizes to attract top professionals.
Regarding Covid-19
Safety is our highest priority, for your family, the students we work with, and the teacher. We ask all teachers to follow all CDC, state, and local guidelines as it relates to COVID. Beyond that, we have all families and teacher in a pod agree on certain health guidelines and COVID protocols at the beginning of the pod so that there is not any ambiguity about what is expected.