Teacher Jenna Hill loved Montessori education, but she wanted to incorporate other approaches as she worked with students. When the pandemic hit, she and a fellow teacher, Maria Casco, took the opportunity to create a new learning community, CASCO Learning, in St. Louis.
“We took the best of Montessori because we are very rooted and have been in that world for a long time, but we were able to suddenly use whatever tool that we needed to use to meet the child’s needs,” Jenna explains. They dove deep to learn about homeschooling, unschooling, and microschooling, which opened their eyes to the flexible options that were available.
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