Oct 4, 2025
Session 1, Week 6 The last week of a session is a unique and important experience at CHOICE. Exhibitions provide a meaningful opportunity for heroes to feel the weight of a deadline, push themselves to prepare, plan and execute a complex event, and then pause to...
Sep 29, 2025
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Sep 22, 2025
Session 1 Week 4 At the Freedom Lights Festival this week, we had the opportunity to listen to many Hero’s Journey stories. I am always grateful for the reminders of the sacrifices that were made to procure our freedoms. There was also a presentation on the...
Sep 15, 2025
Session 1, Week 3 There’s something beautifully disorienting about the start of a new school year – new spaces, new rhythms, new faces. And in a learner-driven environment like CHOICE, “finding our way” doesn’t mean following a map — it means building one...
Sep 8, 2025
Session 1, Week 2 We often talk about giving 100%—whether in effort, focus, or commitment. But when it comes to accountability, we set our sights higher. At CHOICE, our heroes aim for 200% accountability: 100% for holding themselves to a standard of excellence and...
Sep 1, 2025
Session 1, Week 1 After a hero accepts their call to adventure they enter “the Special World.” CHOICE heroes accepted their call to start at CHOICE this year and this week began exploring their special world. What does that exploration look like in each studio? In the...
Aug 25, 2025
Session 1, Week 0 The first day of a new school year, with new studios, new guides, a new building and yet, the same old goals! What do we hope for on the first day? That heroes feel welcomed, get out of their comfort zone, begin getting to know one another and start...
Jun 13, 2025
Session 7 Week 3 On Thursday at the splash pad, a guide was sitting on a park bench watching the heroes play at the playground. She struck up a conversation with a grandma, unrelated to CHOICE, sitting next to her. The Grandma immediately said, “These children are so...
Jun 9, 2025
Session 7, Week 2 Thursday night/Friday morning I was at the school until 2am with the Wright Brothers! Ok, so they weren’t the Wright Brothers, but they sure acted like it! These heroes have been working on their go-kart all year – and they wanted to...
Jun 2, 2025
Session 7, Week 1 As we commence our final session, we are exploring the session question “How can I find joy in the JOurneY? Each studio is exploring this question in different ways. The Spark Studio explored some amazing inventions that children around the...