Dear Parent,
The World has been changing more rapidly than most of our heads and brains can keep up with. If your life is like mine right now, everyday seems full of pending decisions that could have great impacts on family, home, health, and more. Often making the right decision can feel elusive if not downright impossible. The best we can do, perhaps, is weigh the data available and proceed with caution, but proceed nonetheless. It seems impossible to imagine sitting still for much longer. Like water in the Florida climate, we and our children become stagnant and require some stirring up from time to time.
That said, I’m pleased to announce that Caravan Learning has every intention of offering an alternative educational platform for the 2020 – 2021 school year. What I’ve committed to doing so far is a balance of small group in person enrichment activities that will include (but not be limited to) woodworking, cooking, arts-n-crafts, drumming, book clubs, public speaking, haiku writing, yard work and gardening, basic bicycle maintenance and repair, and field trips to environmental and cultural gems in the local area. I will also be offering in person or online tutoring in specific academic subjects while working with each family as we find flexible solutions to our community needs in regards to scheduling, transportation, and any other thing that may come up during the school year.
As Caravan Learning will follow the Orange County Public School schedule, that means we are scheduled to begin programming the week of August 10th. And as we are having to be extremely small in order to be extremely flexible in the current situation in Florida and elsewhere, I am only opening up six spots for the core group of students who will ideally be aged 8 to 13. I want to target those who are reading to learn rather than are learning to read. Two of those six spots are currently spoken for. There will of course be a la carte options for field trips and tutoring for any age, however, so please don’t let those numbers scare you into thinking your child couldn’t find some success being a part of our caravan in a variable capacity.
What does this mean for you now? I’ll need commitments in the coming weeks for anyone who intends to participate as part of the six core students in the coming school year alongside a $50 enrollment fee. This fee can be paid in check to Caravan Learning Incorporated. I have currently secured or am working on insurance, liability release forms, first quarter field trip schedules, and more. Please bear with me as I navigate the challenging waters of starting something new and do my best to create it in a way that meets the needs of you and your family. If you’d like to read more about Caravan Learning’s philosophy and approach, feel free to navigate over to: http://caravanlearning.org/about/
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I wanted to include a quick note on strategies in a covid-19 era. I cannot make promises there will not be risks involved as there absolutely will be. I want to keep the program on our core days small for that very reason. I will run temperature checks daily, and we will ask anyone showing symptoms to stay home. I will have hand sanitizers and hand washing soap at every sink.Families that commit can all have an online meeting with me before we start to agree upon and finalize safety procedures we consider best practices such as PPE or other interventions. I envision the start of Caravan Learning sort of like Little House on the Prairie. The current plan will be to use my modest house as an interim home for what we know works for our children. I may have some other options opening up as we go. As you can imagine, I simply cannot commit to a lease or other physical location right now. This is another reason for keeping this on the size of a co-op. If after this year, it needs to grow, then we’ll grow. For now, I think we need something small, flexible, and purposeful. Keep in mind that field trip days will offer us the ability to expand our social circles for those to whom that is a priority.
I hope you have interest in being a part of this either as a core member or via our extended a la carte options. This is a chance to get in on something that could change the very landscape of your and your child’s life. I am currently offering online tutoring and Gardiner Scholarships are accepted for that as well. Please be in touch how I can best serve you during this uncertain time.
Sincerely
Mark DeMaio (mark@caravanlearning.org)