Sarah has an extensive background in alternative education.  She holds a Master of Education in Montessori Integrative Learning with a specialty in Garden-Based Education.  Sarah is also a trained Montessori teacher for ages 2.5 - 12.  She also holds a degree in Outdoor Education and a BA in Sociology.  Sarah's real pride and joy is being the mother to four phenomenal children; Lucas, Hailey, Scarlet and Jesse. 

 

Sarah believes in honouring the individuality of children by nurturing their self-creation, independence, creativity and imagination.  She does so by following the interests and learning styles of each child individually while allowing learning to naturally unfold.  This way, children take their learning as far as their heart and minds desire- often much further than any teacher-imposed learning outcome would have enabled.  Her desire is to connect children to the Earth while igniting passion and a life-long love of learning.

 

Sarah has been teaching in a variety of settings for 18 years.  Prior to becoming a Montessori teacher, Sarah instructed for Outward Bound in South Africa where she lead adjudicated Zulu and Xhosa youth in the mountains for 21-day outdoor leadership excursions.  She has worked with ages 2.5-15 in  different Montessori schools throughout Hawaii, California and British Columbia, Canada.   In addition to teaching in the classroom, Sarah owned and operated her own Montessori school which operated at capacity with a wait-list.  She also founded a nature and inquiry-based home-school program called Love of Learning Green  on Bowen Island, British Columbia and on Koh Samui, Thailand. She has now taken this program to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia where she is currently living.

 

The idea for the Global classroom came from having many visiting families join Sarah's program while traveling on Koh Samui.  Many asked how they could remain involved from afar and so, Love of Learning Green GLOBAL was born.