Redemptive Education
Community Initiatives
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Helping you build a Redemptive Education program in your own community
The Center for Redemptive Education can come alongside you and your team to provide you with a customized package of services and resources tailored to your specific needs and desires.
Your educational program package can be custom designed for either a partial week homeschool support program (e.g., Tuesday through Thursday) or for a full-week school program.
Depending on your needs, your customized package can include the services outlined below.
Our Services
Curricula
Professional Development and Certification
Consultation
REACH Plus Membership
Single-year or multi-year curricula available for:
• Boots & Roots (ages 4-6) – for our popular outdoor education program for young learners.
• Scent of Water (K-8th) – for grades K-1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6-8, for either 3-day/week or 5-day/week programs.
Professional certification by CRE includes a variety of interactive study, resources, books, videos and in-person professional training, leading to:
• Level I certification: Foundations in Redemptive Education Philosophy.
• Level II certification: Foundations in Redemptive Education Praxis.
1. Professional Development begins with individual at-home preparation, as teachers review and prepare interactive responses to CRE videos and readings. Teachers submit their responses and observations on a schedule to CRE staff for review. CRE staff dialogue with teachers, copying the community program administrator on communications.
2. Professional development continues with on-site, week-long group teacher preparation. CRE staff lead this one week, in-person training for teachers.
3. Teachers successfully completing the program are awarded Levels I and II Redemptive Education certification.
4. Ongoing professional training also includes the provision of print resources, for use by the community program administrator or teacher/leader in regular teacher meetings or professional development days.
Monthly virtual meetings with CRE educators provide you and your team with individualized, personal consultation to answer your questions, encourage your ideas and evaluate your progress toward goals.
Also included in consultation services is assistance in:
• reviewing and interviewing prospective teachers, with a virtual interview option;
• presentations to current and prospective parents about Redemptive Education.
30 months of membership in our exclusive Redemptive Education Association of Christian Schools (REACH) is included in your package:
• Annual on-site visit and as-needed consultation with CRE leadership.
• Participation in multi-school retreats for administrators.
• Discounted registration for annual conference for teachers and administrators.
• Member-only educational resources.
Affiliated Homeschool
Support Program
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As a homeschooling family or group of families with a vested interest in the education of your own children, you can initiate and run a Redemptive Education program that meets your children's needs.
You can choose the age groupings for your three-day outdoor campus program for children, starting with ages four to six (Boots & Roots) and kindergarten through the eighth grade (Scent of Water).
The Center for Redemptive Education can provide you with the curricula, teacher professional development and certification and practical tools you need to turn your vision into reality.
Next steps
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Read the document below that explains the elements and processes of initiating a Redemptive Education program in your community.
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Contact CRE to arrange a complimentary personal consultation regarding your vision, preferences and desires for launching an educational program in your community.
Affiliated Homeschool Support Startup
Contact form
Affiliated School
As an educational leader, you can initiate and run a Redemptive Education program tailored to meet the unique needs of your own community.
You may want to start a community school from the ground up, or you may want to replace your existing curricula with Redemptive Education curricula and provide professional development for your staff. (Schools retaining their own curricula but desiring other Redemptive Education services may join our REACH schools network.)
Whatever your path and needs, the Center for Redemptive Education can provide you with provide you with the curricula, professional development and certification and practical tools you need to introduce a biblical, relational, integral and experiential approach to education in your community.
Next steps
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Download the brochure below that outlines the Center for Redemptive Education services to your school.
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Contact CRE to arrange a complimentary personal consultation regarding your vision, preferences and desires for launching an educational program in your community.
Affiliated School Startup
Contact form
Testimonials
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"We aim to develop a community of life-long learners, rejoicing together, laboring together, exploring God's wonderful work together and finding our place in it."
-- Amy Imbody, MEd, Founder and President of the Center for Redemptive Education, from her book, Wind from the Sea: Essays in Redemptive Education.