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Parent Reviews (16 reviews)
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Sycamore has wonderful community spirit! Parents are actively involved and come from a broad cross-section of the city. Professors, artists, professionals and more bring their talents to the campus. An emphasis on student teamwork is supported with multi-age classrooms, allowing kids to develop relationships with younger and older kids. It also gives them flexibility to work in groups of differing abilities. Kids move on from Sycamore to become leaders in middle and high school, maintaining close friendships with their elementary school pals. Most graduate from college, and there is a large contingent of kids whose parents also attended Sycamore as children!
The combination of academic and ethical social education, parental involvement, positive peer learning structures and respect for the child as a whole human being put my daughter's education at Sycamore beyond measure.
My sons attended school there and the great education included the shaping of excellent characters. Peer group teaching, structures that provided opportunities for students to self assess and thus take responsibility for their education, creative responses to problems, holistic teaching methods, parental participation, celebration of diversity, teaching children the difference between kindness and transformative social practices with encouragement to do both, using students' strengths to help overcome areas of weakness - all these and more made me very enthusiastic about Sycamore. And there were the welcoming, communicative teachers who were very accessible. It was simply a refreshing and great experience to have my sons educated there.
I loved the combination of excellent academics with spaces for independent, creative thinking fostered in all my children
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