About Us
What is a microschool?
Imagine a one-room school house-redesigned. That's our microschool. Multiple grade levels and ages working together collaboratively to learn from each other. This flexibility also allows us to break into age or ability grouping very fluidly and seamlessly. The homey feeling of our classroom allows students to feel comfortable and safe while learning, Small class sizes and the same teacher for multiple years foster an environment of safety, love, acceptance, and belonging, which creates the one of a kind, unique atmosphere of a microschool.
What makes Integrative Learning Academy Different?
Integrative Learning Academy (ILA) is a school that aims to empower ALL learners. We understand that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to education, whether students are neuro-typical or neuro-diverse. We allow all students ranging from typical learners to those with mild to moderate needs such as ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, twice exceptional, and high functioning Autism to learn academic content in a setting that allows engagement, adaptive expectations, choice, movement, risk-taking, and the development of self-esteem. We foster social emotional growth, academic skills, life skills, problem solving, self-advocacy, self-regulation, and most importantly, the imagination. When needed, students may be supported from our contracted ABA therapist, OT/PT and speech therapist.
We Value and Protect Childhood
A shorter school day (8:30 am-2 pm) and a shorter school week (Monday- Thursday) allows our students time to be kids. We encourage all our students to utilize the hours not in school to pursue interests and hobbies, to play outside and explore nature. At Integrative Learning Academy, we place an importance on exploration, outdoor play, and imagination. There is no rush for our children to grow up too quickly and believe by honoring childhood we are fostering each child's emotional health and development.
Each Child is an Individual
Each child is unique and that's why at ILA we strive to meet each student's needs by tailoring their education to best serve them. With the use of social emotional education embedded in our daily culture as well connected discipline we place importance in finding the root cause of behaviors such as unmet sensory needs or lagging skills in executive function. We approach learning through a strength-base approach. It is our priority to tend to the hearts of our young learners, not just their minds.
Why have an inclusive learning model?
Both children with diverse learning needs as well as typically developing children flourish when provided the opportunities to learn together. Pull out models of education isolate and can shame young learners with special needs all while not allowing the typical students the opportunity to gain empathy, understanding, and the richness and diversity that neurodiverse learners bring.
How do I know that Integrative Learning Academy is a good fit for my family?
- Families who feel like their student just doesn’t ‘fit’ into a regular school.
- Families seeking a strength-based eduction.
- Families seeking a structured, yet flexible approach to learning.
- Families who want more social skills and social emotional learning explicitly taught by therapists and trained teachers.
- Families who desire a school knowledgeable about ABA therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques.
- Families who seek a student-centered education with high expectations.
- Families who don’t want homework and yearn for their children to have a childhood filled with play and time to develop interests.
- Families who want their child’s gross and fine motor skills developed as a pathway to academic learning.
- Families who want to decrease their child’s anxiety around school and learning.
- Families who want their child's sensory needs met within the general classroom.
- Families who want to have a partnership in their child's education.