Steinberger

We love Sandpiper! It is a TK-8th grade school which has an amazing culture of belonging, kindness, and empathy. Our principal who models that every day for our students and community. The teachers are friendly and really care about my children, and we have a very good school counselor who goes into each classroom to teach social emotional learning lessons. We're a really close knit, neighborhood school where many people walk and bike there and theres a real feeling of strong community here. Alot of parents are very passionate about contributing their talents and time to the school so we have alot of fun school social events too. Sandpiper's middle school is actually a design thinking school, which means they teach kids how to think and solve problems creatively. Design thinking methodology is actually used to drive innovation by many world leading institutions/companies such as Apple, Google, Stanford School of Design. The teachers train in design thinking with other prominent schools focused on design thinking such as dtech high school, Nueva, etc. We also have an outstanding robotics program and kids can participate and get mentored by high school students. Student teams have actually won world championships in robotics, consistently placing in the top 3 globally. We feel lucky to attend Sandpiper and my kids are thriving in this amazing community here.

I have three kids in this school. All teachers have been warm and genuinely care about their students. One of my sons was referred by his teacher to meet with the school counselor due to his emotional and social skills. Teachers are very willing to work with parents to improve any issues related to my child wellbeing. In general, communications regarding student progress and learning between teachers and parents are almost daily. You know exactly what is happening in the school. The principal, Ms Gaboury, is amazing. She remembers all my kids’ names and their classrooms every time I walked into her office. During covid, all classrooms were relocated outdoor. From this new classroom setting (canopy, partitions, seat arrangements, etc), you can tell immediately how thoughtful and caring the planning staff are.

There are good teachers, but there are also bad teacher who are not qualified as educators. When our children couldn't properly participate in the class play because they couldn't speak English, she excluded them from the play. From the start, she didn't even give my child a role. Later, she gave my kids a small role, but when they couldn't communicate with their friends because they didn't know English, she said that they interfere with practice, so she excluded them again after only two days.I am still upset at the thought that my children must have been hurt by watching other children's plays on the day of the play presentation. I think a good educator should lead everyone to participate in class activities. Our children were not given consideration or guidance to participate, and were discriminated against and excluded. I am not good at English either, so I am even more angry and sorry for my kids because I couldn't even complain to the teacher at that time.

We were so happy with the education our son received at Audubon. We felt the School had a great sense of community. There were several opportunities for advanced learning and also fun events for the community. Thank you Audubon for helping my son become a well rounded young man.

Best school ever my son loves it he became a much happier person.

We have had a wonderful experience at Kids Connection preschool for our two year old son. He has been there almost a year. The teachers have been nurturing and kind, all staff knows kids and their families by name. The staff has been incredibly patient with potty training and my son has learned so much regarding numbers, letters and social skills. They offers extracurricular activities such as dance, sports and gymnastics which has been great! We are happy to be in this wonderful community.