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This will be short. This school has far exceeded my expectations. It is a wonderful place where the teachers genuinely care. If you can, send your kids here, they will love it.

"I am a founding teacher of Joe Shoemaker School, starting here in 2015- and as long as I am a teacher, I will work here because I love this school. Our staff, teachers and admin are some of the smartest and most amazing humans I have ever worked with. They work tirelessly to do what's best for our students and this community. Being an Expeditionary Learning School, also adds a unique layer to what makes this such a special place, as work is designed to matter and have a ""so what"" effect on our community. Students learn to appreciate the world by exploring it and becoming advocates to take care of it. They do this through service learning and interdisciplinary curriculum that ties social justice, science and literacy together to make work meaningful and engaging. In addition, Joe Shoemaker places a heavy focus on SEL learning, working to be responsive to students needs and support the wide range of behavioral needs in order to develop coping strategies, academic mindsets and restorative practices- which at Shoe we call ""Crew"", supporting the belief that we are all in this together. In addition to working here, my daughter has attended this school since 2017, as a 3 year old in our ECE program. To hear her come home and talk about our Habits of Excellence, naming Craftsmanship, Growth Mindset and Mindfulness (just to name a few) as concepts she is using each day to create high quality work, self reflection practices and the ability to do hard things, has made me an incredibly proud parent AND she's a great reader and mathematician, as well! She is learning about a wide variety of cultures, beliefs and personalities, due to our incredibly diverse population, and will go onto middle school with a much more realistic depiction of the world. I could not recommend this school any higher. It's truly the best."