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PSCS Life – The “Why” Behind Annual Giving

You’ve probably heard that annual giving is pretty important to the PSCS community. But, what is most often misunderstood, is that we expect everyone in our community to contribute to our annual fundraising efforts, each year—board members (we already have 100% from this group), staff (we already have 100% from this group), and all our…

1/16/19: Winter Open House

Join us for the PSCS fall Open House for prospective families— and discover progressive education at it’s most supportive. Wednesday, January 16, 6-8pm RSVP & Inquiries This evening Q & A event is being held for those families seeking enrollment in middle or high school in the 2019-20 school year. Why PSCS…

PSCS Founder on Awakin Calls

PSCS founder and director, Andy Smallman, will be the featured speaker on Awkin Calls (8/19, 9am), a weekly conference call that anyone from around the world can dial into. It is completely free, without any ads or solicitation. Each call features a unique theme and an inspiring guest speaker, with the simple hope of spreading…

9/5: First Day of School!

We look forward to seeing all our new and returning students on Tuesday, September 5. Students and staff will head right to Check-In at 9am and there will be a Morning Welcome Coffee for parents at the same time. Chaque capsule contient 20 mg Mpharmacien de cette substance qui s’y trouve sous forme de gelée…

8/30: New Family Orientation

Orientation for new PSCS Parents and Students, at school on Wednesday, August 30 from 7-8:30pm. New students should come prepared with a laptop (or parents should let us know beforehand if they’ll need the school to provide one for the year).

Kindness Curriculum

School Director Andy Smallman has built an Internet reputation on the subject of kindness. If you don’t know, Andy first created a “kindness curriculum” back in the 90’s for PSCS. Soon thereafter, he brought the concept online and offered it to anyone in the world with an email address. He continues to do this on…

Answer: A Circle

Q: What goes around and comes around? A circle, that’s what! And at PSCS, a circle is an important shape, perhaps THE most important shape. We begin each day in a circle (check-in) and we end each day in a circle (check-out). At various times during the day we are in small circles (classes). And…

Spirit Day 2012

At PSCS we say our product is to be part of a loving and nurturing school environment. One way we do this is to honor special events like Ally Week, taking place this week, and Spirit Day, taking place today. Spirit Day is designed for people to speak out against bullying and to show their…

Positive Psychology

Last Friday, school director Andy Smallman hosted a session at school designed for students and adults interested in learning about something called positive psychology AND how PSCS is using the concepts of it. It was a great session and it began with Andy showing a 5 minute video for context purposes. The video, called “Positive…

What’s Good? PSCS, That’s What!

A couple weeks back a youth-based organization called “What’s Good 206” came in to PSCS to film Jon Ramer, creator of the Compassion Games and a guest speaker Andy had invited in. As it turns out, they became more interested in PSCS itself and created a short YouTube video based on what they saw (Jon’s…