Thank you for considering helping the children at this very special school. 

For over 2 decades, through their tireless commitment and generosity, the couple who founded the school made attending a viable choice for families with financial need. Now, for 1/3 of our community's children to continue on with their classmates, they will need outside financial support.

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I've had the opportunity this year to see the impact this school makes on a child's academic success and their well being. My own sons come home from school with a sense of belonging - feeling excited, challenged, seen, loved and thirsty to learn. While there is a global learning crisis, Love of Learning is showing us what is possible in education with a lot of heart and soul. 

Here are 7 of the things that stand out to me about this school. These educational practices restore my hope in our children's future:

1. A Close, Caring Community  2. Connection with Nature 3. Engaging Core Academics 4. Intentional Approach to Technology 5. Healthy Play 6. Meaningful Traditions + Celebrations 7. Participation in Acts of Service 

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7 Ways Love of Learning Makes a Difference for Children

These practices are vital for well-being and for academic success. Yet, they are endangered in today's schools. Love of Learning serves as a model for how to best serve children with an education that develops the skill and confidence to better the world for the good of all.

1. A Close, Caring Community

In a world of disconnection, our children are part of a close, caring community.

Our multi-age classrooms create a family structure. Teachers prioritize making children feel genuinely seen, known and respected. Connection is valued and the children build enduring friendships. Older students enjoy esteem as role models; younger children feel supported and look forward to the milestones ahead.

In a community of belonging, our children are safe to take risks and face challenges.

2. Connection with Nature

While today's children are largely alienated from the natural world, our children, are immersed in the nature of Long Island's woods and waterfront every day.

With collective stress and anxiety raised this year, our children felt the restorative powers of nature. They learn outside with the background noises of the forest and the light of the sun dancing through the trees. They breathe in fresh air and hold literature circles by the warmth of a fire in a pit they built themselves. They live ecology by hiking trails, observing and interacting with wildlife. The way nature shapes their days will instill a love that readies them to be the innovative protectors of our earth.

Everyday, our children are being gifted the benefits of a strong nature connection.

3. Engaging Core Academics

In a traditional school, teaching follows a fragmented curriculum and standardized test preparations, while Love of Learning teaching follows the child.

Each day, our students have a 3 hour uninterrupted work period. During this time, they use their mapped work plan to attend to self-directed, self-paced work. With individualized, meaningful work, their concentration skills improve. The ability to focus attention, along with mastery of reading, writing, time-management and collaboration, allows our children to take on the core academic curriculum and subjects relevant to them.

Equipped to delve deeply into the topics that absorb them, our children develop a true "Love of Learning".

4. Intentional Approach to Technology

While schools adopt the developmentally inappropriate practice of having elementary children on screens for hours each day, our school sets an example of using tech with purpose and intention.

Love of Learning is not anti-tech, rather tech is used as one of many tools in the toolbox for learning. Just this week, tech allowed our children to be introduced to African penguins, create a news broadcast for their own Good News Network, and to brainstorm science experiments with high school students they otherwise wouldn't have met.

Still, our children spend the bulk of their days holding real, concrete materials in their hands. They experience the dying art of putting pencil to paper, flipping through an atlas, manipulating numbers with beads, reading a novel under a tree, burying a seed in damp, cold dirt and using sandpaper to smooth woodworking projects.

Our students are growing up with the critical ability to keep their tech use in balance.

5. Healthy Play

In traditional schools, downtime and recess are increasingly squeezed out of the school day in favor of other priorities.

At Love of Learning, recess is honored. Given ample time and space, our children, decompress, strengthen friendships, navigate conflict and experience the JOY of being kids. Play gives them vitality and refreshes them for learning. In all weather, you can find them building makeshift forts, playing soccer, having engaged conversation, skipping rocks, sharing treasured games and sledding in the snow.

Our children have opportunities to work hard and play hard.

6. Meaningful Traditions + Celebrations

Traditions & celebrations play an important part of a Love of Learning education.

They connect our children to something bigger than themselves. Even in this pandemic year, Love of Learning refused to give up celebrating and instead, the school team poured their heart and soul into finding safe, creative, inclusive ways to share joy.

Traditions + celebration bring our community a sense of rhythm, happy anticipation and joy!

7. Participation in Acts of Service

It is the mission of Love of Learning to develop active global citizens who ask the question, "How can I be of service?"

Acts of service are woven into everyday life in our children's classroom

• Peer to Peer Learning across mixed age groups


• Stewardship of our campus


• Garden work

Community Service Projects

• Beach Cleanup


• Toy Drive


• Heifer International


• Read to Succeed


• TUSK

Their service learning work helps our children develop empathy, hard work, teamwork, leadership and cultural awareness. Through service work, Love of Learning is pioneering how education can cultivate children as changemakers.

🔷 Our commitment to making Love of Learning a viable choice for families with financial need.

Our founders have 22 years of deep dedication to providing a school that is accessible to all children regardless of their family's financial situation. Their commitment and generosity have kept Love of Learning's cost of tuition substantially more affordable than other Long Island Independent schools.

The school's ability to offer families tuition assistance this year is crippled by the costly addition to the operating budget of preparing the campus to meet and exceed the regulations mandated by the Governor for COVID protocols.

For 1/3 of our families, the challenge to finance a Love of Learning education without assistance is insurmountable.

Please help us nurture our commitment to supporting students from a broad range of economic situations.

Our ability to provide need-based financial aid is relying on your support.