I have a short and simple thought for this week, but it is an important one nonetheless. This is my seventh year teaching high school students. I still enjoy it, actually. Especially here at Ambleside. I enjoy being able to serve in a relational capacity as well as an instructional one. I will admit, that […]

By: Ambleside Schools International The aim of  Ambleside Schools is student growth, and one of the distinctives of an Ambleside education is that student growth is not measured by grades. In Hyde Cox’s introduction to Robert Frost’s book of poems You Come Too, he shares how the wisdom learned from Frost taught him the difference between growth and progress. He taught me […]

The sound of shrill excitement ensues when a teacher tells the class they will be taking their studies out of doors (literally!) and visiting a museum, park, or event for the sake of furthering their education. At Ambleside Ocala, we have the opportunity to visit many different places that coincide with the studies of that […]

The live oak boughs arch up and out from the rough gray-brown trunk which is sending its roots down deep below our yard. Vertical lines haphazard up the bark of the enormous base which four adults with outstretched arms cannot completely encircle.  An arborist estimated the age of our oak to be about 130 years. […]