About SchoolHouse
What's a microschool?
The microschool is the reinvention of the one-room schoolhouse, where class sizes are small groups of 5-8 students and there are mixed-age level groupings.
What is SchoolHouse?
SchoolHouse brings the best parts of education to your home with excellent teachers, small class sizes, and a personalized curriculum. We provide all the tools you need to ensure that your children receive an enriching experience with greater flexibility and more personalized attention than traditional schools can offer - all in a safe and inspiring home learning environment.
Why does the teacher matter so much?
Think back to the best education experiences you've had, chances are you're thinking of a teacher. Research supports that teachers have the largest impact on student satisfaction and educational outcomes. SchoolHouse enables parents to choose the teacher that is right for them.
Who are the teachers?
We hire only the best teachers using a rigorous screening process. For every 1 teacher that we hire, we interview approximately 20 candidates. Our teachers have on average 8.5 years of teaching experience, often have advanced degrees, and come highly recommended by colleagues.
Where is the school located?
Learning can happen anywhere there is enough space for the students and the teachers. So far, our pods have taken place in backyards, around kitchen tables, in playrooms, and in community spaces.
What curriculum do we use?
Each class is uniquely responsive and learns to match the learning style, pace, and interest of each student. We support for every type of curriculum and certified learning method. We work with families to help them find what method best suits them, whether that's a Montessori approach, project-based learning, or STEM focused.
Health and Safety
Safety is our highest priority, for your family, the students we work with, and the teacher. We ask all teachers to follow all CDC, state, and local guidelines as it relates to COVID. Beyond that, each pod creates its own health agreement prior to starting, which we have all students, families, and teachers sign-off on.
Royce J.
- ADD/ADHD
- Art
- Behavior Analysis and Intervention
- Drama
- Gifted and Talented
- Hands On
- Health/Nutrition
- Literacy
- Math
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Physical Education
- Reading
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEM
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Grades 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
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Near Washington, District of Columbia
Royce J.
- ADD/ADHD
- Art
- Behavior Analysis and Intervention
- Drama
- Gifted and Talented
- Hands On
- Health/Nutrition
- Literacy
- Math
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Physical Education
- Reading
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEM
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Grades 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
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Near Washington, District of Columbia
Royce has a Bachelor's in Human Resource Management from Virginia Tech University and a Master's in Elementary Education from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He began working in the corporate world before realizing that his true passion was teaching children. He has 6+ years of teaching experience in grades 1-8 for all content areas. The bulk of his experience is teaching 4th/5th graders ELA and Social Studies and teaching 7th/8th graders History and PE.
Qualifications
- BA, Virginia Tech
- MA, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Teaching Philosophy
Royce believes in teaching through a combination of experience and information. He teaches students to be resilient so they able to learn from their mistakes, cope with their emotions and improve upon their interpersonal relationships while continuously growing as learners/people. He is also a huge proponent of real world learning and examples in math, and literacy centered around students finding books that capture their interests. Royce believes that students should have the benefit of high expectations and respect for their community and class. His joy of learning is reflected in his students and in his classroom full of self-motivated learners and team players.
Upcoming Classes
Jeffrey Full Time Pod
Monday - Friday, 9am - 2pm
Every student has unique needs, strengths and areas of development. The purpose of a microschool is to provide each student with precisely what they need to be successful. At my microschool, instruction is targeted specifically for each student. We take advantage of the small class size to do the basics quickly and have plenty of time for project based learning, inquiry and experiential learning.
How it works
What is Schoolhouse?
We started SchoolHouse with the intention of helping people start microschools because we saw that it was a better way to learn. That’s been our focus from the beginning and we’ve built the team with that purpose.
We are a team of teachers, school leaders and parents who are simply school nerds. We want to build the best schools in the world, only smaller and in your home..
Teacher Screening Process
We screen and vet every teacher thoroughly and accept between 5-7% of applicants. This is to ensure a high quality education across every SchoolHouse school.
We recruit teachers from a variety of backgrounds including private, public, and charter schools. We interview and offer competitive packages and small class sizes to attract top professionals.
Regarding Covid-19
Safety is our highest priority, for your family, the students we work with, and the teacher. We ask all teachers to follow all CDC, state, and local guidelines as it relates to COVID. Beyond that, we have all families and teacher in a pod agree on certain health guidelines and COVID protocols at the beginning of the pod so that there is not any ambiguity about what is expected.