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Our Learning Offerings
We facilitate Individualized Learning Partnerships and Small Group Learning Clubs for ages 5 - 18, as well as Coaching Sessions for Caregivers. Meetings are scheduled online or in-person in the Los Angeles area. We do our best to customize learning offerings that fit family and community preferences.
Scroll down to read the detailed descriptions of our current small group learning clubs (2 - 5 learners).
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To join our community, please complete our Fall 2025 Interest Form. We welcome you to note in the interest form, any specific requests for new clubs or new times. ​
Young Math Minds
Ages 5 - 7
Fridays IN PERSON 10:00 - 11:30am
Our youngest learners come to this club with intuitive understandings about counting and problem solving. We use the context of their lives, communities, interests, ourstories, and dreams to invite their mathematical thinking. We create and play with math tasks that welcome multiple perspectives and strategies, and we facilitate conversations that inspire them to engage in each other’s mathematical ideas.
With confidence, joy and curiosity, our Young Math Minds continue to develop their counting skills of one-to-one correspondence, sequencing and cardinality. They grow in their natural understandings of skip counting, one less and one more, place value, classifying and measuring. As they create drawings, models, and equations that represent their problem solving strategies, they begin to recognize beautiful relationships between numbers and operations.
Fluency and Flexibility
With Numbers and Operations
Ages 8 - 11
ONLINE Wednesdays
9:30 - 10:30am PST/
12:30 - 1:30pm EST
Learners engage in open-ended tasks and games that promote math fluency and flexibility. We solve culturally-relevant story problems in ways that make sense to each of us, and compare and build upon each other’s mathematical strategies. We joyfully and curiously discover our own ways to describe mathematical patterns and make deep connections across number and algebraic properties. We explore mathematics in art and nature, and enjoy strategy games from around the world.
In these sessions, learners do much more than memorize math facts and algorithms. They come to see themselves as profound mathematical thinkers who have the confidence and the habits of mind to tackle new problems.
Fractional Relationships and Algebraic Thinking
Ages 12 - 15
ONLINE Wednesdays
8:00 - 9:00am PST/11:00am - 12:00pm EST
During these club meetings, our growing mathematicians are invited to dig into relationships amongst the fractional understandings that they intuitively bring with them. With culturally relevant tasks, we also support them in their experiences with the language and beauty of algebra. ​
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creating visual models of fractions that support the conceptual understanding of operations with fractions
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grouping, joining, separating, measuring and partitioning with fractions
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writing and solving equations
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describing and evaluating algebraic patterns
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graphing and analyzing data on an x-y coordinate plane​​
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As they explore and expand their mathematical understandings, our learners are engaging with each other's ideas and perspectives, inspiring each other to see their own brilliance, and collaborating with comfort and joy.
Wholehearted Writers Workshop
Ages 13 - 16
IN PERSON Wednesdays
11:30am - 1:00pm
In this club, our learners fall in love with themselves as writers. They build a repertoire of strategies to draw upon as they generate ideas, rehearse and plan, draft, revise, edit and publish their work. They develop a willingness to take risks, a commitment to be true to themselves, and to use writing as a vehicle to create mirrors and windows. They learn to nurture themselves as writers and to reflect on what makes their own writing process go smoothly.
As they study mentor texts by Black writers, our teenagers hone their leadership skills of intent listening, critical thinking, thoughtful questioning, logical reasoning, mindful observing, and energetic balancing. They then enhance their own writing skills that could include descriptive writing, argumentation, creative writing, summarizing and recapitulating, etc.
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Our community culture is the essence of our workshop model. Learners and facilitators work together to sense into ideas, tinker, invent, reflect, revise, and grow. They give and receive feedback with joy and kindness, and they learn to admire each of their peer’s agency, voice, skill and style.
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Individualized
Learning
Partnerships
Scheduled with each family
Whether the focus is math, literacy, knot-tying, Spanish, sound healing, plant science, or another area of study, this is much more than a tutoring session. Learning facilitators partner with your child to build a trusting relationship, engage in easeful conversations, and develop conceptual understandings in depth. Every session offers a supportive space for reading, writing, mindfulness, and joy. Learners bring their intuitive knowledge, skills and curiosities, and we gently nudge them along their learning journey.
Coaching Sessions
for Caregivers
Scheduled with each family
As a parent, do you feel guilt, anxiety, shame, helplessness about how your child is “doing” academically? Well, we know and believe that your child is not behind. Rather, each one is on their own divine timeline. Let’s partner together to admire what they are intuitively understanding. Let’s enjoy witnessing the brilliance in their choices, their perceptions, their gifts. And let’s talk about how we can follow their lead into deeper explorations. In our coaching sessions, we respectfully listen and support you as you explore ideas, philosophies, resources, programs, logistics, and communities. We lean into the details of your child’s thinking, and we offer questions and options for you to consider as you plan, reflect, and problem-solve through your adventures of home learning.
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