Welcome from the Executive Director

Welcome to The Attic Learning Community!  

The Attic was founded 25 years ago by educators committed to creating a learning community in which children are truly engaged and inspired. At The Attic, learners partner with their teachers to explore their interests, ignite their passions, create, invent and discover together. 

The Attic’s 5 acre campus with its tall cedars and firs, wide meadow, and bordered by Rowlands Creek provides endless opportunities for learning in, about and with nature.  The Attic’s constructivist approach to education ties learning to real experiences, indoors and outside, giving learners opportunities to ask meaningful questions, devise their own solutions, and ponder big ideas within a community that supports inquiry, creativity, and curiosity. Teachers facilitate learning experiences based on the readiness of the child, allowing children to move at their own pace, and to go as far and as deep as their interests take them. Attic teachers honor learners’ questions and model a passion for lifelong learning.  

We are all learners – children and adults – and as a community, we engage in the process of growing and becoming every day. From the playground to the classroom, Attic learners of all ages regularly work and play together, building a sense of agency, leadership, responsibility, community, and empathy. 

We would love to talk with you about The Attic! Contact us with your questions or to set up a tour. Come and visit our beautiful campus and see the magic that happens when curious, engaged learners come together to explore, discover and create together!

In Service,